Hanna Fuss

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Hanna Fueß (actually Johanna Wilhelmine Alma Fueß ; born February 27, 1886 in Altencelle ; † November 7, 1972 in Wienhausen ) was a local writer from Celle and worked for the Celleschen Zeitung for many years .

Life

Mauernstrasse 47 in Celle, in this house Hanna Fueß sometimes lived with Hermann Löns

Hanna Fueß 'father Wilhelm was a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . Together with his wife, he raised their daughter and her two brothers to love their homeland and aroused their interest in traditions, customs and history. After the father's death in 1900, the family moved to Celle on Mauernstrasse. In Celle she attended the private school of the writer and journalist Carl Crome-Schwiening , where she practiced reciting, which helped her with later lectures and readings.

At the turn of the century, Hanna Fueß began to work as a writer. Her central theme was her homeland, its people and stories. She was also friends with the later editor-in-chief and publisher of the Cellesche Zeitung , Ernst Pfingsten , who hired her as a staff member and local editor.

A love affair developed early on - from Hanna's side at first rather enthusiastic - between her and Hermann Löns , 20 years her senior , who was then the husband of her cousin Lisa Hausmann. In 1909 the 43-year-old confessed his love for Hanna Fueß to women. The women rejected a ménage à trois that he proposed . Nevertheless, Hanna Fueß remained a close confidante of Löns for years. She is said to have been a model for the character of Swaantje from Löns' novel The Second Face . Her work Hermann Löns und die Swaantje , which she published in 1921 under the pseudonym Swaantje Swantenius, sold a total of 130,000 times by 1939 and made her known beyond the district of Celle.

In 1921 Hanna Fueß was co-founder of the Lönsbund , expanded it into a comprehensive homeland association, undertook numerous lecture tours, was secretary of the association for many years and finally became its honorary chairman.

During the Nazi era , Hanna Fueß was a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture , the Nazi women's association , was committed to the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) and published war letters in the Celler war letters that were published by the NSDAP district leadership. After the Cellesche Zeitung ceased publication in 1945 on the orders of the Allies, Fuss had to give up her writing activity temporarily. In June 1946, she was commissioned by the Celler Kreisbauernschaft to compile a chronicle of the district for the time of the war and the years immediately thereafter. She recorded more than 350 eyewitness reports, most of them between 1947 and 1948. The majority of those questioned were long-established residents of the Celle district. Displaced persons , such as former Jewish prisoners, prisoners of war and forced laborers who were in large numbers in the district at the time, were not interviewed.

In May 1951, Hanna Fueß became a canon at the Evangelical Ladies' Foundation in Wienhausen , where she was in charge of the monastery archive. At the age of 86 she died in Wienhausen and was buried in the cemetery of the Gertrudenkirche in Altencelle.

In February 2011, the city council of Celle decided to rename the Hanna-Fuess-Weg, named after the author, to “Gildeworth”. The main reason for this was the author's involvement in the National Socialist system.

The spelling of the name varies in the sources between "Fuess" and "Fueß".

Works

  • Swaantje Swantenius (pseudonym): Hermann Löns and the Swaantje (Berlin 1921)
  • Heather children. Stories from the Lüneburg Heath (1921)
  • Peasant art in the Bomann Museum in Celle (1927)
  • Free von Ottenhaus (1929)
  • Celle primer. A home book for young and old (1940)

literature

  • Nölke, Anneliese: Hanna Fueß - local writer. In: Women from the Celler Land. A journey through the centuries , published by the LEB Bildungswerk im Landkreis Celle e. V., Celle 2004, pp. 53f., ISBN 3-921744-37-7
  • Rainer Schulze (ed.): Troubled times. Experience reports from the district of Celle 1945–1949 , Munich 1991, ISBN 3-486-54981-2
  • Winter, Sebastian: "Behind these simple words there is a heroism ..." A source review of the "War Chronicle" by Hanna Fuess. In: Um-breaks. Celler life stories. celler issues 5–6. Series of publications by the RWLE Möller Foundation (editor: Reinhard Rohde). Celle 2010, pp. 39-74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nölke, p. 53.
  2. ↑ Schulze, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Nölke, p. 53.
  4. ↑ ibid., P. 10ff.
  5. ↑ ibid., P. 11.
  6. ↑ ibid., P. 12.
  7. ↑ ibid., P. 12. Neumann, p. 43.
  8. ↑ Schulze, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Nölke, p. 54.
  10. ↑ Cellesche Zeitung: Renaming Hanna-Fuess-Weg ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cellesche-zeitung.de

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personal data
SURNAME Feet, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Swaantje Swantenius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Celler native writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Altencelle
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1972
Place of death Wienhausen