Hedwig Bienkowski-Andersson

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Hedwig Bienkowski-Andersson , née Hedwig Andersson (born March 8, 1904 in Ljungbyhed near Klippan , southern Sweden ; † December 30, 1984 in Hochstetten near Kirn ) was a German essayist and writer.

Life

Origin, youth and education

The Swede Andersson Ernest married in 1902 the Ermländerin Hedwig Herrmann from Green Village, District Rößel . In 1905 they leased the family estate in Ljungbyhed and moved to Hohensteiner Strasse in Allenstein in autumn . Hedwig Andersson attended the local Luisenschule and after graduating from high school in the Olsztyn Oberlyzeum began training in the teachers' college . In 1922 she married the builder Hugo Bienkowski.

Literary work

After her mother's death in 1927, she wrote her first poems and published them in local Warmian newspapers and in the Berlin newspaper Germania . Her poem Kleine Schwalbe was printed in the Sonnenland magazine in Austria. They lived on their parents' property in Allenstein until 1939 and then they moved to Münsterberg near Paupelsee in the Heilsberg district .

At the beginning of 1945 they fled from the approaching Red Army to Sweden via Pomerania . In 1949 they moved from Sweden to Hochstetten ( Hunsrück ), where their sister Ingrid Wagner-Andersson was already living. Since 1955 she has written prose, aphorisms and articles for the Naheland calendar. She was a member of the Are Guild , a member of the German Writers' Association and was part of the sphere of activity of the poetry magazine Das Boot .

Fonts

  • Unforgettable youth country . In: Ruth Maria Wagner (ed.): In the garden of our youth. Memories of a city - Allenstein in East Prussia . Matari Verlag, Hamburg 1966.
  • Beloved life. Poems . Martin Verlag Berger, Buxheim 1969. (with four watercolors by sister Ingrid Wagner-Andersson).
  • Trust sees light everywhere. Aphorisms . Kammweg Verlag, Troisdorf 1973.
  • with Georg Hermanowski ( epilogue ): The complete work. Poems, prose, memories of youth and homeland by the East Prussian author . Kammweg Verlag, Troisdorf 1978.
  • Pictorial poems . Edition Griphius, Reutlingen 1979.
  • In anthology : Silke Steinberg (Ed.): East Prussian writers. Stories and poems . Rautenberg, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-8003-3087-4 .

Awards (selection)

  • 1975: International Literature Prize in Monte Carlo
  • 1979: Nicolaus Copernicus Prize of the City of Gelsenkirchen
  • 1979: District medal of the Bad Kreuznach district
  • Merit plaque of the Nahe district

literature

  • Ernst Vogelsang: Hedwig Bienkowski-Andersson on his 100th birthday . In: Allensteiner Heimatbrief No. 237 . Stadtgemeinschaft Allenstein, Gelsenkirchen 2003, pp. 38–41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Vogelsang: Hedwig Bienkowski-Andersson on the 100th birthday. Stadtgemeinschaft Allenstein , 2003, pp. 38–41 , accessed on November 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Bienkowski-Andersson, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andersson, Hedwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German essayist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljungbyhed at Klippan
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1984
Place of death Hochstetten