Hermine Maier-Heuser

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Hermine Maier-Heuser (spelling also Hermine Maierheuser ; * October 22, 1882 in Linkenheim , † June 23, 1968 in Karlsruhe ) was a German writer from home . In addition to historical novels and short stories , often about events in the Upper Rhine , she also wrote poems .

Life

Hermine Maierheuser, née Heuser, the “poet from the Upper Rhine”, was a teacher by profession. She found her first job in Adelsheim in the Odenwald, where she met the composer and music teacher Karl August Maier. The couple married and later moved to Karlsruhe. Here Hermine Maierheuser was close friends with the painter Hans Thoma, which resulted in her debut as a writer in 1925 with the book Vertraute Stunden mit Hans Thoma . Other works such as the epic Der Dreizack (1937) and volumes of poetry, including Zeitlieder zur Unzeit (1931), followed. It reached its height with the historical novel Bärbel von Ottenheim . The work was published in 1939 and was an immediate success. There were even filming plans, but these were thwarted by the outbreak of war. Her last novel Tanz zu Regensburg remained unfinished. Hermine Maierheuser died of heart failure in Karlsruhe on June 23, 1968. The administrator of the estate of the poet and writer is her grandson Karlheinz Strümpel from Karlsruhe.

Works (selection)

  • Redeemed sound . Lahr in Baden: Schauenburg, 1953
  • Venus people . Berlin: Steuben-Verl., 1940
  • Bärbel von Ottenheim . A novel from the Upper Rhine . Berlin: Steuben-Verl., 1939 (one of her best-known works, a history novel published in several editions), as paperback 1995, ISBN 3-925021-09-4
  • The veil of the Bärbel von Ottenheim. Little prose and poems . Karlsruhe: Verlag des Karlsruher Boten / Kurt Rüdiger, 1962 (linocuts by Fritz Möser )
  • Poems, fairy tales and legends . Ed .: The Karlsruhe Messenger. Karlsruhe, Verlag des Karlsruher Boten, 1958
  • The Rhine Pebble Chain. Fairy tales, legends and stories for children from ten to one hundred years . (Cover and illustration: Fritz Möser)
  • Hans Thoma : Memories and Stories . Karlsruhe: Ed. dws, 1989
  • Above the lake: Novella about Annette von Droste and the painter Marie Ellenrieder . Ludwigsburg: Stockmayer, 1959
  • You distant heart: hiking trail from farewell to reunion . Karlsruhe: The Karlsruhe Messenger, 1957 (collection of poems)
  • Cheerful and serious things about Hans Thoma . Buxheim, Martin Berger Verlag, 1962
  • Hadumoth's home: a refugee child blooms on Lake Constance . Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Bote, 1959 (story)
  • The little pearl miracle: a novel for young hearts . Lahr: Schauenburg, 1957
  • Sinsheimer song . In: Badische Heimat, 34, 1954, p. 217 ff.
  • The trident: Roman from the Upper Rhine . Karlsruhe: Moninger, 1942
  • The unforgivable . Karlsruhe: K. Moninger, 1951 (novel)
  • Dive into infinity. Berlin [u. a.]: Bischoff, 1943
  • Time songs at the wrong time . Hirsau / Württ .: The Ark, 1931
  • Tanz zu Regensburg (cheerful novel from dark times) (Ill. Ludwig Barth) (Karlsruhe, Wehinger, 1968)

Honor

In Linkenheim (near Karlsruhe), the poet's birthplace, a street was named after her in 1962.

literature

  • Fritz Mack: Hermine Maierheuser - a local poet and poet (lecture manuscript). In: Freundeskreis Heimatgeschichte Linkenheim-Hochstetten (Ed.): Anno Dazumal . Publications of the Freundeskreis Heimatgeschichte Linkenheim-Hochstetten, issue 2. Karlsruhe, undated
  • Hermann Wiedtemann: Hermine Maierheuser . In: Ekkhart. Yearbook for the Badnerland , born 1958, pp. 87-89.
  • Wilhelm Kosch (Greetings): German Literature Lexicon . Bern, Munich, Stuttgart: Francke. 1st edition. 1968ff., Vol. 10, p. 254.
  • Arthur Luther : German history in a German story. A literary lexicon . 2nd edition Leipzig: Hiersemann 1943
  • Reinhard Oberschelp (Ed.): Complete directory of German-language literature . 1911-1965. Munich, u. a .: Saur 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Database "Project Historischer Roman" , Institute for German Studies at the University of Innsbruck

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personal data
SURNAME Maier-Heuser, Hermione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maierheuser, Hermione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkenheim
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1968
Place of death Karlsruhe