Gertrud Pfander

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Gertrud Pfander (born May 1, 1874 in Basel , † November 9, 1898 in Davos ) was a Swiss writer .

Gertrud Pfander (1874–1898) writer. Photography by U. Roessinger-Jeanneret, Montreux
Gertrud Pfander

Life

Gertrud Pfander was born out of wedlock and came to Bern as an orphan after her mother's death at the age of six . After a business school had graduated, she worked as a governess in England , Scotland and Belgium operate. In 1893 she returned to Switzerland and worked as a telephone operator in Bern. The last years of her life were overshadowed by a tuberculosis disease, because of which she had to spend several years in Davos sanatoriums .

Gertrud Pfander left a narrow lyrical work behind . It was edited by the poet, editor and publisher Karl Henckell . Her poems, held in conventional rhyme form , mostly deal with the author's unhappy love affairs.

She was buried on November 11, 1898 in the Davos cemetery.

Works

  • Passifloren , Zurich [u. a.] 1896
  • Chiaroscuro , Bern 1908

literature

  • Werner Morlang : So nice aside. Die Verschollene , in du , July 1999, No. 697, p. XXXIII. doi : 10.5169 / seals-304122
  • Doris Stump et al .: German-speaking women writers in Switzerland 1700-1945. A bibliography . Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1994, p. 165.
  • Gertrud Pfander , in: Lexicon of German women of the pen , [Vol. 2], Berlin 1898., p. 129.
  • Joh. Anliker, Gertrud Pfander Gertrud Pfander , in: New Paths , 10th year, 1916, issue 10, pp. 485–488.
  • Albert Gessler: Gertrud Pfander , Basel 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertrud Pfander, 1898 Nekrolog

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personal data
SURNAME Pfander, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1898
Place of death Davos