Gertie Hampel-Faltis

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Gertie Hampel-Faltis (born Faltis , born October 5, 1897 in Wekelsdorf , Braunau district , Bohemia ; † October 21, 1944 ibid) was a Sudeten German poet and landowner.

Life

Gertie Falti's parents were Fritz Faltis and Johanna, née Hooser, from Trautenau . She was the granddaughter of the industrialist Johann Faltis , the founder of the Austrian flax industry and cousin of the pianist and composer Evelyn Faltis . Faltis grew up in the baroque Wekelsdorf Castle, the lower castle in the village (today Dolní Zámek in Teplice nad Metují ) and was the youngest of three children. She received private lessons and played the piano. She also enjoyed going to the theater and concerts and had numerous contacts with artists, e. B. the writer Josef Mühlberger . Her brother Fritz Faltis junior died as a young man on the Stochid in the First World War .

She married Kurt Hampel, a master tailor from Trautenau, who was six years her junior, and had a daughter, Renate Hampel-Faltis, in 1929. After the death of her father, she took over the work at the Wekelsdorf estate and castle, which her father had given her on the occasion of the wedding in 1927.

She developed cancer at the age of 43 and died in the castle in October 1944. At that time her husband was a soldier in the war and her daughter Renate was only 15 years old. It was expropriated in 1945 due to the Beneš decrees and expelled in 1946 .

The grave of Gertie Hampel-Faltis at the Wekelsdorf cemetery was dissolved in the 1960s.

Writing activity

Hampel-Faltis wrote poems, occasionally also stories and mood pictures, which appeared regularly from 1929 - initially under her maiden name - until 1934 in the journal Ostböhmische Heimat and occasionally in Witiko: Zeitschrift für Kunst und Dichtung . These publications were sometimes positively pointed out. In 1931 the Literary Adalbert Stifter Society in Eger published an anthology with a selection of poems from the years 1918 to 1929 under the title Das große Rauschen , which Josef Mühlberger rated in a preview as “The book of one of our best Sudeten German poets” . Up until 1938, other poems, mostly reprinted from the poetry book, appeared in the home country , the supplement to the Volksbote , printed in Trautenau.

reception

Josef Mühlberger judged in 1981: "Your poetry (" Das große Rauschen ", 1931) is strong and deep in experience and simple in form." In 1983, in his story The Round Table , he reported the remarkable impression that the work had among some of the Trautenauer Artist left behind. An appraisal in monographic form has not yet taken place, as her work is very rare. Jenny Schon wrote in her 2014 article on Faltis that “... there was simply no trace of her only work to be found.” She judges: “This is good poetry, clear, memorable images, with great feelings, embedded in an expressive one Description of nature, but still more conservative choice of words. ” It shows “ that she has mastered the verse forms ” , so she also uses terzins and emphasizes z. B. Falti's skill in the poem Initiation .

Trivia

In Otto Stoessl's novella Gerti accompanies papa from the volume of novels Allerleirauh , published by G. Müller in 1911 , the vacation trip of an approximately 12-year-old factory owner's daughter named "Gerti Faltis" is described.

In honor of Hampel-Faltis caves were named that were considered to be prehistorically important.

Even after Hampel-Faltis' death, a French court ordered the compulsory administration of her property by order of June 11, 1956.

Works

  • Gertie Hampel-Faltis: The great noise . ( Sudeten German Collection of the Literary Adalbert Stifter Society ; Vol. 18). Literary Adalbert Stifter Society, Eger 1931. 47 S, class 8

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jenny Schon: Lost Stories Rediscovered. For the 70th birthday of the poet Gertie Hampel-Faltis (1897–1944). In: Adalbert-Stifter-Verein (Hrsg.): Stifter Jahrbuch 2014. Munich, New Series Volume 28, p. 214.
    Note: Life dates were given differently: 1.) with Josef Mühlberger: 1895–1944; 2.) Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1937/38 , p. 274: 5. X. 1898; 3.) copied from Kürschner: Giebisch u. a .: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon , 1948, p. 153: October 5, 1898; 4.) again Josef Mühlberger: History of German literature in Bohemia. 1900-1939. Munich 1981, pp. 348-349: 1895-1944; 5.) copied by Mühlberger: Dieter Sudhoff (Ed.): Elderflower. Wiesbaden 2005, p. 285: 1895-1944; 6.) Copied from Kürschner and Giebisch: Kosch, Vol. 14, 2010, Col. 59: October 5, 1898–1944.
  2. ^ In: Reinhard Lamer: Trautenau. History of a German city. Volkstum-Verlag, 1971, p. 187.
  3. ↑ Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 777 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Franz Babel: Alphabetical Directory of Literature on the Riesengebirge , No. 116-120 and 175-197. PDF file , p. 14 & p. 17/18
  5. ↑ Year 1929, second volume, p. 55 ; Born 1931, second volume, p. 56
  6. ^ Monthly for Das Deutsche Geistesleben, year 1930, p. 355 : “A refreshing poem to read 'Spring meadow' by Gertie Hampel-Faltis. A strong and delicate feeling for nature, highly personal and yet immediately convincing, plus a music of language that has become out of fashion today, as far as I can see. "
  7. ^ Witiko: Journal for Art and Poetry, year 1931, second volume, p. 231 : "The colorful river of life, whose deepest sweetness is love, flows through the verses of Gertie Hampel-Faltis"
  8. ↑ Franz Babel: Alphabetical Directory of Literature on the Riesengebirge , No. 462. PDF file , p. 31
  9. ^ Josef Mühlberger: The round table. In: ders .: Where I was at home. Helmut Preußler Verlag, Nuremberg 1983, p. 71 f.
  10. ↑ Jenny Schon: Lost Stories Rediscovered. For the 70th birthday of the poet Gertie Hampel-Faltis (1897–1944). In: Adalbert-Stifter-Verein (Hrsg.): Stifter Jahrbuch 2014. Munich, New Series Volume 28, p. 211.
  11. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library.
  12. ↑ Otto Stoessl: Gerti accompanies the papa .
  13. ^ Journal of Karst and Speleology , year 1930, p. 16 .
  14. ^ Journal officiel de la République française , year 1956, p. 6665 .
  15. ↑ Franz Babel: Alphabetical Directory of Literature on the Riesengebirge , No. 447. PDF file , p. 31
  16. ↑ BDČZ
personal data
SURNAME Hampel-Faltis, Gertie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faltis, Gertie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German poet and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wekelsdorf , Braunau district , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1944
Place of death Wekelsdorf , Braunau district