Gerda von Below

Gerda von Below , married Freifrau Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels (born November 9, 1894 in Saleske in the Stolp district , † March 30, 1975 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

Sophie Anna Marie Gerda von Below was born on November 9, 1894 on Gut Saleske in the Stolp district as the daughter of Rittmeister Walter von Below and the writer Anna von Herder . She was a great-great-granddaughter of Johann Gottfried Herder . She was first taught by private tutors and in 1909 came to a lyceum in Weimar , where she graduated from high school in 1911. In 1913 she went to Berlin, where she studied music and composition, among other things. After the outbreak of World War I , she went to a hospital in Schlawe as a Red Cross nurse , but only lasted until Easter 1915. She then went to Blankenburg to relax .

In 1919 she married Albrecht Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels , who was corvette captain . The family lived in Berlin. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

In the period between the world wars she published poems and prose under her maiden name von Below , including verses to Adolf Hitler in 1937 . In 1943 her last book was published, the collection of short stories Heimat des Bluts .

She lost her husband and a son in World War II . She moved from Berlin to Hinterzarten in 1953 , then to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1954 and finally to Darmstadt . She practiced the profession of a scientific graphologist. In December 1953 she took part in the Herder honor in Weimar , where she gave a greeting. In Freiburg she was involved in the World Organization of Mothers of All Nations and became the second district chairwoman of the organization. Her works were rarely printed. In the anthology Pommersche Literatur published by Fritz Raeck in 1969, she is represented with six poems. In 1974, on her 80th birthday, a small selection of works appeared again on 24 pages. She died on March 30, 1975 in Darmstadt.

Works

Book editions

• Verses from the big city and other poems. Self-published, Berlin 1922.
• The god in the labyrinth. Poems. G. Müller, Munich 1925.
• The sacred zodiac. Protection Association of German Writers, Berlin 1930.
• The mothers house. Stories. The Rabenpresse, Berlin 1933.
• Room of love. Poems. The Rabenpresse, Berlin 1933.
• The burning mirror. Poems. Holle & Co., Berlin 1936.
• Home of blood. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1943.

Articles in magazines

• The valley of death. In: Our Pommerland . 14th year, 1929, p. 294.
• Salesker mansion. In: Our Pommerland . 18th year, 1933, p. 27.
• Ocean. In: Our Pommerland . Volume 21, 1936, p. 130.

Selection tape

• Gerda von Buttlar-Below. A selection from poetry and prose. District groups Rhine-Main and South-West of the Working Group for German Poetry, 1974.

literature

• Fritz Raeck: Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pommerscher Zentralverband, Hamburg 1969, p. 320.
• Hanna Spiegel: a gifted but unknown artist. In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 45/2014, p. 8.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
• Hanna Spiegel: The dune wanders: facets from the life and work of the Pomeranian poet Gerda von Below. Elmenhorst / Vorpommern: Edition Pommern, 2015, ISBN 978-3-939680-26-0 . Review of the work by Lutz Mohr . In: The Pommersche Zeitung . Vol. 65, episode 44 of October 31, 2015, p. 10, 3 fig.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerda von Below in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 81, p. 71 and Volume 59, p. 43 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN  0435-2408
2. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 39.
3. ↑ Group picture of the descendants of Johann Gottfried Herder on the occasion of the Herder honor in 1953 at www.herder-institut.de .