Herta Graf

Herta Graf , née Enderneit (born December 28, 1911 in Riga , † December 16, 1996 in Schorndorf ) was a German writer.

Life

After attending the business school in Riga, Herta Enderneit worked for the evangelical "Baltic German Russia Work" until 1939. The family decided to leave Latvia. She had to flee from Posen in the Reichsgau Wartheland in 1945 - soon after she married Johann Graf in 1944. She first lived with her husband's family in the Matthesmühle near Wemding , then in Wallerstein and Wustenriet near Schwäbisch Gmünd , before moving to Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1958. Her son Klaus was born in the same year . Until she separated from her husband, she worked as a housewife. In 1989 she moved to a befriended family in Schorndorf.

plant

With over 5,000 copies sold, requiring a second edition, her Christmas story Miss Bertram Celebrates Christmas (1958) was quite successful. After the publication of a second book, Sommerkind Silvia (1963), Herta Graf largely refrained from further literary work, in line with the wishes of her husband, who did not show any understanding for her cultural ambitions. Shortly before her death, she was able to complete the memoirs baptized with Dünawasser , which are valid for the time up to the resettlement in 1939. While her published work remained narrow, extensive postponed material can be viewed in the written material archive Ostwürttemberg , founded by Reiner Wieland.

literature

Eduard Funk: Poetry from a womanly heart . In: einhorn 1959, issue 38, p. 245
Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Nekrolog 1971-1998 , 1999, p. 199
Obituary by Reiner Wieland. In: ostalb / einhorn 1997, issue 93, p. 60f. ( online )
Elke Heer: Herta Graf 1911–1996. In: Women for spring I grab . Schwäbisch Gmünd 2008, pp. 24–31
Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 487 . (with mistaken assignment of a Vienna dissertation)

Web links

Commons : Herta Graf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Extract from the memoirs
further excerpt ( memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Evaluated by Anja Wilhelmi: Living worlds of women of the German upper class in the Baltic States (1800-1939): an investigation based on autobiographies. Wiesbaden 2008. For the period after 1939, refer to the 7-page curriculum vitae from 1979 in the documents archive in Ostwuerttemberg ( online on Commons ).

personal data
SURNAME	Graf, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Enderneit, Herta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 1996
Place of death	Schorndorf

[1] Evaluated by Anja Wilhelmi: Living worlds of women of the German upper class in the Baltic States (1800-1939): an investigation based on autobiographies. Wiesbaden 2008. For the period after 1939, refer to the 7-page curriculum vitae from 1979 in the documents archive in Ostwuerttemberg ( online on Commons ).