Helma Cardauns

Helma Cardauns , married Helma Verbeek or Helma Verbeek-Cardauns (born July 8, 1913 in Bonn , † March 21, 2004 in Bonn) was a German writer .

Life

Helma Cardauns in spring 1982

Helma Cardauns, who came from a middle-class family, grew up in 1915 with her grandparents, the architect Heinrich Krings and his wife, in Cologne , where she attended grammar school. In 1929 she broke off this schooling and lived with her mother in Rome until 1931 . After her return to Cologne, she completed a traineeship at the Kölnische Volkszeitung . From 1933 to 1936 she studied German , philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Bonn .

Epitaph

In 1937 she married the art historian and later Rhenish state curator Albert Verbeek . In addition to raising her five sons, the youngest of whom is the artist Egbert Verbeek , Helma Cardauns devoted herself to literature in the post-war and 1950s and again from the 1970s. From 1957 she lived with her husband in Bonn, at times also in Altenahr-Kirchsahr .

Helma Cardauns' work includes novels, short stories and poems. She was particularly successful with her autobiographical trilogy , consisting of the novels A Cologne Childhood , Luftwurzeln and Espenlaub and Laurel Leaf .

Helma Cardauns was a member of the Association of German Writers . In 1993 she received the Cologne Literature Prize .

She died in 2004 at the age of 90 and was buried in the family grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (hallway 55).

Works

• The Lukas Brothers , Kempen, Niederrh. 1947 (under the name Helma Verbeek-Cardauns)
• Who is poorer than a child , Cologne 1956 (under the name Helma Verbeek-Cardauns)
• Little children, little worries , Cologne 1957 (under the name Helma Verbeek-Cardauns)
• Burned hedges , Cologne 1958 (under the name Helma Verbeek-Cardauns)
• Joint , Wuppertal-Barmen 1971
• Eis-Schollen-Gang , Cologne [a. a.] 1973
• The summer festival in the winter night , Weinheim (Bergstrasse) 1974
• The gallows period , Bonn 1980
• Orchid tongue , Bonn 1980
• The house and the foxes , Bonn 1981
• Little Marie and other Silesian stories , Cologne 1982
• Riehler Strasse 13 , Cologne 1985
• A Cologne childhood , Unkel / Rhine [u. a.] 1991
• Luftwurzeln , Unkel / Rhein [u. a.] 1993
• Aspen leaves and bay leaf , Unkel / Rhine [u. a.] 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Helma Cardauns in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karin Hempel-Soos: I've always been lying in the dusty gate of the drought: on the death of the Bonn writer Helma Verbeek-Cardauns . Obituary in the Bonner General-Anzeiger , March 23, 2004