Helene Brehm

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Helene Brehm (born January 24, 1862 in Abterode ; † August 24, 1932 in Rinteln ) was a German teacher and local poet .

life and work

Childhood and studies

She was born as the youngest child of the mayor of Abterode Johannes Brehm and his second wife Karoline Neuschäfer seven years after the birth of her sister Marie.

First she attended school in Abterode and later as the only girl together with 17 boys the private school of the pastor Wilhelm Johann Hermann Coing, pastor in Abterode from 1843 to 1867.

She started reading very early. She benefited from the fact that her godfather Georg Dern had the post office in the Brehms' house , which was also his living room. This made it easy for her to look through the incoming newspapers and magazines.

When she was two years old, she contracted scarlet fever , which led to her having an eye disease that was a problem for her life.

Professional life and retirement

The pastor who taught her said that because she was a bookworm, she should be allowed to study, and her parents decided that teaching was right for her.

So she came to the Carolinenschule in Eisenach in the teachers' seminar . After passing the exam, she stayed at home for a year and then took a job at a higher girls' school in Bad Homburg vd Höhe . In May 1884 she was appointed to the city school in Rinteln, where she taught for almost 35 years.

Because of her eye problems she had to give up her teaching post in Rinteln early in the spring of 1919.

She lived with her older sister Marie in Rinteln and died there on August 24, 1932.

plant

She started writing verse at a young age . Most of the time she sat in the arbor of her large garden. She wrote poems , essays about local history and stories about the entire Meißner foreland, the Meißner , which she correctly called the Wissener , the Höllental , the Bilsteiner , about the old Abterode, Abteröder field names, about the customs, but also about her adopted home Rinteln and its surroundings. Together with her sister Marie, she has also written some works, such as the Abteröder New Year's song, which they had a music teacher in Rinteln note down by singing it to him in two voices. Marie Brehm also published her own articles, e.g. B. Ancient Village Commerce and The Thieving Hand .

Helene Brehm published three books:

  • From local plaice . Poems. Printed and published by Friedrich Scheel, Kassel 1909.
  • From my garden . Poems, with pictures by O. Gebhardt. Heimatschollen-Verlag, A. Bernecker, Melsungen 1922, DNB  57895785X .
  • The pounding on the door of the heart . Stories. MG Elwertsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Marburg 1925, DNB  578957868 .

In the book 900 Years of Meißner-Abterode 1076–1976 , Helene Brehm was honored as follows: “The poet had the gift of portraying people in their fate, the landscape in its beauty in linguistic simplicity and great truthfulness. Everything she wrote was copied from life. Helene Brehm has left a legacy for posterity that deserves to be guarded. "

literature

  • Helene Brehm: Something about myself . In: The Werra Valley . No. 1 , 1924, p. 113-114 .
  • K. Steinbach: Helene Brehm . In: Festival committee to prepare d. 900 year celebration of Meissner (Ed.): 900 years of Meißner-Abterode 1076–1976 . Abterode 1976, DNB  820283290 , p. 128-131 .
  • K. Gier: Sounds of home from Meißnerland. Helene Brehm = stories & poems . Self-published, Meißner-Alberode 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helene Brehm: Something about myself . In: Das Werratal , No. 1, 1924; Pp. 113-114
  2. ^ U. Künkel: Helene Brehm . In: Stadt Rinteln Lexikon . Merkur Rinteln Verlag, Rinteln 2001.
  3. ↑ K. Steinbach: Helene Brehm . In: Festival committee to prepare d. 900 year celebration of Meissner (Ed.): 900 years of Meißner-Abterode 1076–1976 . Abterode 1976, DNB  820283290 , p. 130 .
personal data
SURNAME Brehm, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German native poet, teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Abterode
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1932
Place of death Rinteln