Gisela Brach

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Gisela Brach (born October 2, 1926 in Trier ; † January 21, 2017 there ) was a German writer and librarian .

Life

Gisela Brach was born in 1926 as the daughter of Joachim and Martha Brach , b. Kohn was born in Trier. After her father's death in 1938, her mother raised the children alone. During the Second World War, Giesela Brach attended schools in Trier, Saarbrücken and Ahrweiler , graduating from high school in 1946. This was followed by studies of geography, Romance studies and German studies in Mainz with the aim of becoming a teacher. During her internship in Saarburg , Idar-Oberstein and Koblenz from 1954 to 1957, however, it became clear to her that she did not want to pursue this profession permanently. Therefore, she completed an apprenticeship as a qualified librarian in Trier and Cologne from 1957 to 1959. Until she retired in 1989, Gisela Brach worked at the Trier City Library . She lived with her mother, who was one of the first women to be active in Rhineland-Palatinate politics after 1945. Gisela Brach died in early 2017 at the age of 91 and was buried in the family grave at the main cemetery in Trier , where her parents, who died in 1938 and 1990, and a fatally wounded brother in 1944 are buried.

plant

On the one hand, Gisela Brach's work includes publications on regional studies such as bibliographies (Trevirensia 1950–1975, Trier 1975; "Mittelrhein-Moselland-Bibliographie", Koblenz 1978 ff .; Calendar bibliography. Title index of poems by regional authors in Standard German and dialect prose from home calendars and yearbooks of the Trier government district from 1950–1975, Frankfurt am Main 1980; Trier dialect poet. A lexicon with text examples and bibliography. Trier 1997), but also poems, stories, fairy tales, fables, travelogues and religious texts.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: https://volksfreund.trauer.de/trauerbeispiel/gisela-brach
  2. ↑ A tour of the main cemetery in Trier ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Broke, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2017
Place of death trier