Hertha von Gebhardt

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Hertha von Gebhardt (also: Hertha von Gebhardt-Triepel ; * February 2, 1896 in Leipzig as Hertha Antonie Mathilde Triepel ; † July 8, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Hertha von Gebhardt was the daughter of the constitutional lawyer Heinrich Triepel and on her mother's side a granddaughter of the Egyptologist Georg Ebers . She lived in Berlin from 1913 . After studying the French language , she started teaching at a lyceum in 1916 . From 1919 to 1927 she was married to the genealogist and archivist Peter von Gebhardt ; this marriage resulted in two children.

After Hertha von Gebhardt had published her first literary works in the early twenties, she made contributions to various magazines; After the success of the volume Das singende Knöchlein , numerous other book publications followed. Despite her Jewish grandfather , she succeeded in becoming a member of the Reich Chamber of Literature and publishing regularly during the Third Reich . A close friendship linked them with the in exile living writer Christa Winsloe , with which she was in correspondence. Hertha von Gebhardt last lived with her daughter, the author Renate von Gebhardt .

Hertha von Gebhardt was initially the author of novels and short stories for adults; since the 1930s she has mainly written children's books . She achieved particular success with Bettine , a girl's book published in 1937 , of which more than 45,000 copies had been sold by the end of the 1950s, and with the childhood novel Das Pfennighäuschen (1932), which was reprinted into the 1960s. She also wrote screenplays for feature films and translated from English and French into German . Individual works by Gebhardts have been translated into English , French , Spanish , Italian , Dutch , Swedish , Norwegian , Danish and Finnish .

Hertha von Gebhardt was one of the founding members of the German service club Soroptimist in the 1930s and was elected chairman of the Association of German Writers in 1947 . In 1952 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In 1958 her work The Girl from Somewhere was on the list of honor for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize .

Works

  • The dispute of the sciences , Stuttgart [among others] 1917 (under the name Hertha Triepel)
  • The love story of Toni Gentz , Leipzig 1920 (under the name Hertha von Gebhardt-Triepel)
  • The escape into fire , Leipzig 1922 (under the name Hertha von Gebhardt-Triepel)
  • The Janus head , Berlin 1925
  • The singing knuckle , Berlin 1927
  • The child from Room IV , Berlin 1929
  • The Pfennighäuschen , Cologne 1932
  • The glass mouth , Berlin 1936
  • The secret union , Cologne 1936
  • Bettine , Cologne 1937
  • Brigitte's comrades , Cologne 1938
  • The green salon , Berlin 1938
  • Love for Gertie , Berlin 1938
  • Pack up, Gisela! , Cologne 1939
  • Two rings , Berlin 1939
  • God's mills , Berlin 1940
  • I am a girl! , Cologne 1940
  • Letters to a lover , Berlin 1941
  • Lina Hebenstreit, Eisenwaren , B.-Leipa 1941
  • The tavern zum Mohren , Berlin 1941
  • The difficult confession , Cologne 1941
  • Luck and Glass , B.-Leipa 1942
  • Consideration for Delia , Berlin 1942
  • Christian Voss and the Stars , Berlin 1947
  • The green salon , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1947 (together with Ernst Hasselbach )
  • The children's meadow , Berlin 1947
  • Girlfriends , Cologne 1948
  • The Rosengretel , Cologne 1948
  • Hannes with the key , Cologne 1952
  • Sender: Nikolaus Stuck , Berlin 1954
  • Swap roles , Cologne 1954
  • The endangered friendship , Cologne 1955
  • Message in a bottle , Cologne 1956
  • Jochen fetches a Christmas tree , Hamburg 1956
  • The girl from somewhere , Berlin 1956
  • 6 children and Mickdermack , Cologne 1958
  • Toffi and the small car , Berlin 1958
  • Bärbel and the boy without a ticket , Cologne 1960
  • The King's Sniff , Berlin 1960
  • The living doll , Cologne 1961
  • Building site! Forbidden to enter , Berlin 1962
  • The twin dresses , Cologne 1963
  • Attention, boy with glasses wanted , Berlin 1966

Scripts

  • What do men know (Germany 1932)
  • Her greatest success (Germany 1934)
  • The sleeping car controller (Germany, France 1934/35)
  • Affair (Germany 1939)
  • Your private secretary (Germany 1939/40)

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personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Hertha von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt, Hertha Antonie Mathilde von (full name); Triepel, Hertha Antonie Mathilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1978
Place of death Berlin