Helene Pagés
Helene Pagés (born December 14, 1863 in Sauerbrunnen / Hunsrück , † November 23, 1944 in Reit im Winkl ) was a German writer .
Life
Helene Pagés was the daughter of the road builder and former artilleryman Franz Pagés, who came from a Huguenot family, and his wife Nanni, a saleswoman who grew up in the Westerwald and trained in Koblenz . During the construction of the Boppard-Simmern road, Franz Pagés settled in Sauerbrunnen / Hunsrück . Helene Pagés grew up there with three older and four younger siblings. She was strongly influenced by the rural surroundings of her home village and the Catholic upbringing of her mother Nanni.
From 1869 Helene Pagés attended elementary school in Leiningen , but after graduating she also received further private lessons in German, arithmetic, history, and French from clergy, students and teachers. From 1877 she was temporarily from the mother after the early retirement operated father's grocery store operates. After taking a special entrance examination, she attended the teachers' seminar in Montabaur from 1880 . After completing her teacher training in 1883, she initially taught at an elementary school in Kannenbäckerland , but moved to Boppard am Rhein in 1885 . There she made a great contribution to the vocational education of girls; In 1906, she took over the management of the Boppard “ advanced training school for girls” , which she had founded in 1898 . She worked with Pauline Herber , the founder of the Association of Catholic German Teachers. For example, she supported them in building a teacher's home in Boppard. She also interacted with Hedwig Dransfeld , a Catholic women's rights activist and politician, teacher and writer for young people.
In 1913 Helene Pagés left school due to illness. In 1915 she enrolled at the University of Bonn , probably following the example of Hedwig Dransfeld, who began immediately with the admission of women to university in 1908 to study cultural sciences in Münster and later in Bonn. In 1917 she moved to Münster , where she joined her niece Änni Büchner (sister of Franz Büchner and Johannes Büchner ). Since 1898 she had made attempts at writing for young people, to which she now devoted herself increasingly. In the so-called Nanni trilogy ( grandmother's youth , grandmother's girl years , mother Nanni and her children ), published by Herder / Freiburg 1920/1921, she set a literary monument above all to her mother Nanni. In 1936, looking back on her old age, she took up her childhood memories, some of which had already been portrayed in Mother Nanni and Her Children , and described her growing up in the small-scale world of the Vorderhunsrück in the volume of stories, Die klingendekette, also published by Herder . Fernes Läuten followed three years later , in which she processed stories and historical anecdotes from Boppard as well as impressions and experiences from her time there. In the turmoil of the Allied bombing raids on the Münsterland in 1943, she withdrew to Reit im Winkl to seek protection , where she died on November 23, 1944 and found her final resting place.
Huguenot descent
In The Ringing Chain , Helene Pagés tells her grandmother about the family history: “Grandmother knows about a bad war in France. And she knows that at that time Balthasar Pagez, Sieur de la Lobatière, with his wife, our ancestor Pauline de la Pompie, and with his children had to flee from their estate near Lyon because they were Protestants who would not give up their faith [... ] that they were homeless and bitterly poor until they were welcomed by the Prussian king in Berlin and were allowed to start a silk trade. And grandmother tells me about the Lützow riders with the skull on the shako and about my grandfather, Isaak Wilhelm Pagés, and his young brother, who rode in their ranks and helped to free Germany. "
In 1972, Friedrich-Weimar Steinfartz pointed to Balthasar Pagez as a possible ancestor, but noted that the genealogical chain to this ancestor has not yet been closed because of the no evidence of the birth of Helene's grandfather Wilhelm. Balthasar Pagez's date of birth is only known from one of two military documents preserved in the family, relating to his involvement and merits in the wars of liberation . There are passages in Helene Pagé's stories about these documents and about a saber left by her grandfather, an order, a commemorative coin and his death mask.
Balthazar Pagez, Sieur de la Lobatière ∞ Pauline de la Pompie
↓ 3 sons
Antoine Pagez, * 1655 Malbosc; † Prenzlau November 23, 1746
Philothée Pagez, * 1661/1662 pharmacist from Chavagnac; † Prenzlau September 21, 1710
Baltazar de Pagez, *?; †?; ∞ around 1678 in Vialas (Cevennes)
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Wilhelm Pagés, Prussian tax inspector in Koblenz, * August 24, 1790; † February 13, 1852; ∞ Helene Kramer, born June 28, 1802; † January 28, 1871
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Franz Pagés, road inspector for the construction of the Boppard-Simmern road * December 14, 1826 † August 17, 1908 ∞ Anna (Nanni) Dörr * July 14, 1830 † November 30, 1918
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Helene Pagé's
maternal grandparents of Helene Pagés are:
Johann Georg Dörr, teacher in Kamp (Kamp-Bornhofen) and Horbach, born October 18, 1800; † 1836; ∞ Maria Anna Reh, born February 7, 1805; † August 7, 1879
meaning
Since 1898, Helene Pagés has published numerous narrative works for children and young people in addition to her educational work ; In particular, the volumes of Grandmothers Youth Land , Grandmothers Girls' Days and Mother Nanni and Her Children , which appeared in the 1920s, were reissued into the 1950s.
As chairman of the literature commission in the Association of Catholic German Teachers , she published annual overviews of recommended youth literature . She was the editor of the German estate for young people . Here she published over 100 booklets with texts from German and foreign poetry - and stories for school children . She counted u. a. Peter Dörfler and Joseph Bernhart on their employees, who had to write their résumés and introductions.
The sounding chain and Fernes Läuten are definitely aimed at adults in terms of their writing style and very soon took on the status of home books for the regions of Emmelshausen and Boppard - that is, Vorderhunsrück and Middle Rhine . Two generations before Edgar Reitz , Helene Pagés gave shape and content to the concept of home in relation to the Hunsrück.
Honors
In Boppard, a street name and a memorial plaque on the east wall of the former Carmelite monastery , the later Boppard primary school, remind of them. The school with the special focus on learning (SFL) in Boppard-Buchenau is called the “Helene-Pagés-Schule” and in 2013 a memorial was set up in the Boppard cemetery.
Emmelshausen with the local parishes of Leiningen and Schwall organized a memorial service on the occasion of their 150th birthday in October 2013 and organized the new edition of The Sounding Chain . In the cultural center of Emmelshausen (ZaP) a hall bears her name.
Works
Authorship
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Editing
- Balladen , Düsseldorf 1909 (edited together with Elisabeth Nieland)
- Lyrik , Düsseldorf 1912 (edited together with Elisabeth Nieland)
- Honorary award , Freiburg im Breisgau 1913
- Come holy spirit , Freiburg i. Br. 1920
- The mother for the price , Paderborn 1927
- Our Christmas book for young and old , Freiburg i. Br. 1927
literature
- Paul Kämchen: Helene Pagés. In memory of the youth and homeland writer. (= Boppard contributions to local history. 3). Keil, Boppard / Rhein 1964.
Web links
- Literature by and about Helene Pagés in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Kämchen: Helene Pagés. In memory of the youth and homeland writer. Boppard 1964, p. 11.
- ^ Paul Kämchen: Helene Pagés. In memory of the youth and homeland writer. Boppard 1964, p. 19.
- ↑ a b Friedrich-Weimar Steinfartz: Legend or Reality? Wilhelm Pagés - Lützow hunter and Huguenot descendant. In: Archive for Family Research , Issue 45, February 1972.
- ↑ Hildegard Tschenett: Helene Pagés. For the 150th birthday of the well-deserved educator and writer. In: Rund um Boppard , Journal No. 118, 2013, p. 1.
- ^ Paul Kämchen: Helene Pagés. In memory of the youth and homeland writer. Boppard 1964.
- ↑ Jürgen Johann: The White Sunday, Helene Pagés and the Holy Imelda . In: All about Boppard . No. 16 , 2004, pp. 16-17 .
- ↑ Klaus-Georg Brager: Memorial for Helene Pagés erected. (No longer available online.) In: vvv-boppard.de. September 24, 2013, archived from the original on December 6, 2013 ; Retrieved December 3, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Wolfgang Wendling: The Vorderhunsrück celebrates Helene Pagés. In: Rhein-Hunsrück-Zeitung , November 14, 2013, p. 18.
- ↑ das-zap.de: site center at the park (Emmelshausen). Retrieved December 26, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pagés, Helene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sauerbrunnen near Boppard |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1944 |
| Place of death | Reit im Winkl |