Gertrud Prellwitz

Gertrud Prellwitz (born April 5, 1869 in Tilsit ; † September 13, 1942 in Küb , Semmering ) was a German writer .

Life

Gertrud Prellwitz was the daughter of a carpenter . She grew up in Königsberg , where she attended a private school. She then completed the teachers' seminar in Droyßig and worked as a teacher in Königsberg from 1888 . From 1895 she was based in Berlin , where she taught at the Auguste Victoria Lyceum and attended lectures in theology and literary history at the Berlin University .

In 1904 Gertrud Prellwitz began a lifelong relationship with the family of the artist and life reformer Fidus , with whose wife Elsa Knorr she was a close friend. In 1903 she lived briefly with the family in the colony Grappenhof in Amden on Swiss Lake Walen , 1904 in Zurich , from 1905, along with Elsa Fidus in Silesia Schreiberhau and from 1908 in the Brandenburg town Woltersdorf bei Erkner . In 1912 Gertrud Prellwitz was one of the founders of the St. George Association . Their worldview was a mixture of Kantian idealism as well as German-Christian and völkisch convictions, but also showed tendencies towards life reform. During the First World War she supported the German war effort with numerous pamphlets ; In 1915 she traveled to the United States .

After the end of the First World War , Gertrud Prellwitz remained true to the folk beliefs she represented during the war years. She moved to Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest , where she published her own works in her Maienverlag . From 1933 she lived in Bad Blankenburg . The seizure of power by the National Socialists was warmly welcomed by her, who saw Hitler as a redeemer. Prellwitz's work, however, met with disinterest or rejection from the new rulers; from 1938 her novel Drude was even on the “ list of harmful and undesirable literature ”.

Gertrud Prellwitz was the author of novels , short stories , essays , pamphlets and plays . Her novel Drude was very popular in circles of the youth movement ; The author achieved her greatest success with the educational book Vom Wunder des Lebens , published in 1909 , which by the 1950s had a total circulation of over 170,000 copies. - Gertrud Prellwitz's estate is in the archive of the German Youth Movement in Witzenhausen .

Works

Oedipus or The Riddle of Life . Tragedy. Freiburg i. Br. 1898
Between two worlds . A world view in a dramatic picture. Woltersdorf near Erkner-Berlin 1899 (1901)
World piety and Christianity , Freiburg i. Br. 1901
Michel Kohlhas . Tragedy. Freiburg i. Br. 1905
The religious man and the modern spiritual development . Seven lectures. Berlin 1905
From the miracle of life . Poetry. Jena 1909
His world , Woltersdorf near Berlin 1911
The legends of the dragon fighter . Poetry. Woltersdorf near Erkner-Berlin 1912
The fact! . Drama from the days of Tauroggen, three acts. Woltersdorf b. Erkner-Berlin 1912
His world . Comedy 1912
How we do it , Woltersdorf 1914
By what forces will Germany win? . Religious lecture. Jena 1915
The imperial dream . A consecration game. Woltersdorf 1916
From the creative love of the light in us . A guide to becoming blissful. Nine letters. Woltersdorf 1917
- 1/7 (1917)
- 8/9 (1917)
Four folk games . 1919
World solstice , Woltersdorf b. Erkner 1919
Drude . Three volumes. Woltersdorf near Erkner 1920–1926
- 1 early spring . A Game (1920)
- 2. New time . Dedicated to the young seekers. 1923
- 3. Flame sign , 1926
My commitment to Muck-Lamberty , Oberhof im Thür. Wald 1921
Germany! Germany! The prisoners . Two parts. Oberhof 1921
- 1st spring . A game.
- 2. Christmas . A game written for the youth of the new Germany.
The Germany song . For the new youth to play with the people. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1921
From holy spring . Essays. Oberhof i. Door. Forest
Voices of God . Poems. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1921
The Easter fire . A story from the world of aromania. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1921
Ruth . Narrative. A book about Germany's need and Germany's youth. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1921
What a person sows, he will reap . A street game. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1921
Creators . Novella. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest, 1922
From spring creation . Eight greeting cards. 1923
A cheerful fairy tale game , Oberhof im Thür. Wald 1923
Des Deutschen Willens Weg , Oberhof im Thür. Wald 1923
The German will's goal , Oberhof i. Thür. Forest 1923
The living source . A saying - yearbook from Gertrud Prellwitz's works. Compiled by W. Plaut. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1924
Baldur's return . Legend. A vision of the fate of the people. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest, 1924
Sun over Germany! . Novel. Oberhof i. Thür. Forest 1926
Your own self . Novel. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1928
The secret behind love and death . Three novels. Stuttgart 1929
My childhood memories . In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte , Issue 10. 1929/1930
Beginnings of life . Memories from childhood and youth. Oberhof in the Thuringian Forest 1930
Loyalty . Novel. Oberhof im Thür. Walde 1930
The chestnut queen. Star legend. Oberhof 1931
Pentecostal flames . Novel in diary form. Oberhof 1932
Maienspiel , Oberhof 1933
The last whale . A legend of Wotan. Consecration game. Bad Blankenburg 1935

Web links

Wikisource: Gertrud Prellwitz - Sources and full texts

personal data
SURNAME	Prellwitz, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1942
Place of death	Küb , Semmering