Hertha Pohl

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Hermine "Hertha" Pohl (born July 24, 1889 in Krappitz , Upper Silesia , † October 4, 1954 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer .

Life

Private

Hertha Pohl was born on July 24, 1889 as the daughter of a room painter and his wife in Krappitz , Upper Silesia . She and her brother were brought up by her grandmother, as the poor wages of the father made it necessary for the ailing mother to have manual labor to support the poor household. Nevertheless, the parents made it possible for their son to attend a high school. During the holidays he passed on the knowledge of German literature and other areas of knowledge he had acquired there to his sister, who also received many fairy tales and stories from her grandmother. The grandmother was also constantly buying new books.

After completing her school education, Pohl accepted a position as a reader with a gifted but blind lady in Breslau . This attempt to earn money independently failed because of homesickness. Back in Krappitz, she found work as a copyist for embroidery patterns in a small carpet factory. After a few years, at the age of 18, she moved to relatives in Berlin , where she learned the craft of sewing blouses and worked in a blouse tailoring shop. Despite a ten-hour workday, she went to the theater and read the Reclam books she had bought with the money she had saved . After seven years of activity, she left the blouse tailoring shop and found a new job in the sewing department of a tapestry factory. In the comparatively undemanding work, she was able to give free rein to her literary thoughts. In their free time, the stories they collected were then written down. This was further facilitated by a new job in a lingerie shop.

During the First World War , she returned early to her parents' house in Krappitz in 1915, where, in addition to looking after her sick mother, she devoted herself entirely to her writing.

In 1931 Pohl moved to Freiburg im Breisgau . She spent the last two years up to her death on October 4, 1954 in the St. Elisabethstift, an old people's home in Freiburg.

job

Her first sketch , which appeared in the Sunday supplement of Vorwärts in 1921 , was a story from the world of the working people, told succinctly and simply, darkly tinted and with a strange realism. Soon afterwards the first volume of all of her stories could appear. After the interest of Herder Verlag and the publication of her first novel by the Kölnische Volkszeitung , her literary reputation was finally established. All his life Pohl was plagued by illnesses and severe strokes of fate, but honorable words full of appreciation, e.g. B. from Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti , lovingly encouraging her to continue working and maturing. A reference to the Krappitz of yore can be found in almost all of her works.

From her first story on, Pohl has remained the poet of the poor . However, no references to the economic and political problems of the time can be found in her works. She was not a revolutionary and did not seek social change; Much more, in her works she echoed the point of view of a Christian, demanding pity and understanding for the needy.

Works

  • Poor people , Habelschwerdt 1923
  • On the Lebensstraße , Freiburg i. Br. 1927
  • The merciful Samaritan , Freiburg i. Br. 1950
  • The curtain falls , Bonn 1933
  • The way of Martina Förster , Dillingen 1923
  • The Bettelgret , Dillingen 1923
  • The lamenting night , Dillingen 1922
  • I am the victim , Munich 1954
  • Im Thymian , Schweidnitz 1928
  • Served me right , Freiburg i. Br. 1934
  • Tina Stawiks Harvest , Freiburg i. Br. 1924
  • From the old breed , Hildesheim 1925

literature

  • Hans Thomas Cebulla: Herta Pohl, our Krappitzer poet, died 50 years ago. In: Krappitzer Heimatblatt. No. 178 / Fall 2004. H. Th. Cebulla (Ed.), Pp. 7-9
  • Joanna Rostropowicz (Ed.): Schlesier. From the earliest times to the present. Volume 1 . Wydawnictwo Instytut Slaski, Oppeln 2005, ISBN 83-88672-77-0

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