Greta Schoon
Greta Schoon , actually Margaretha Börcherts (born July 11, 1909 in Spetzerfehn , East Friesland ; † March 7, 1991 in Leer ) was a German poet .
Life
Her father died in World War I , her mother raised her and three siblings alone. From 1919 she attended the secondary school for girls in Aurich . Schoon trained as a kindergarten teacher and went to Brazil in 1934 as a member of a sorority for two years. Back again she worked in Wittenberg and then until 1945 in Wiesmoor and Wittmund . She had already written smaller pieces of paper before, but it wasn't until her contact with the local researcher and historian Peter Zylmann and the writer Wilhelmine Siefkes in 1947 that she encouraged her to write her poems and lyrics in Low German . From 1954 she worked as an educator in the kindergarten in Emden . From the late 1950s until her retirement, she was director of the Paul-Gerhardt-Haus evangelical daycare center in Leer . The first volume of poetry was published in 1977. Children's songs followed, later also fairy tales and background stories.
Greta Schoon died in 1991 after a serious illness, she was buried in the family grave in Spetzerfehn.
honors and awards
Schoon received several awards:
- 1979: Nicolas Born Prize
- 1981: Klaus Groth Prize
- 1980: Freudenthal Prize
- 1990: Ubbo Emmius Medal
- 1984: Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal
In Leer the Greta-Schoon-Schule and the Greta-Schoon-Straße were named after her.
Works (selection)
- Kuckuckssömmer , Schuster-Verlag, Leer 1977
- Dat wi överleven , Göttingen, Davids Drucke 1983
- Van de runne Mann (fairy tale), Göttingen: David's prints 1987
- Dat Bladenhuus , poems and prose. Schuster-Verlag, Leer 1990
literature
- Christa Bruns: What remains is a fire. Approaching the East Frisian poet Greta Schoon , Norden: Verlag Soltau-Kurier, 2005, ISBN 3-928327-81-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Greta Schoon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Greta Schoon. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Detailed biography
- East Frisian Landscape: Greta Schoon (PDF; 151 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography on fembio.org
- ↑ Reinhard Goltz, Ulf-Thomas Lesle (ed.): Dat Land so free un wiet . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-40026-4 .
- ↑ Biographical note and bibliography ( Memento from August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Greta Schoon School
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schoon, Greta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Börcherts, Margaretha (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spetzerfehn , East Frisia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1991 |
| Place of death | Empty |