Hildegard Cornelsen

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Hildegard Cornelsen, 1981

Hildegard Cornelsen , née Hildegard Friedrichs , (born November 21, 1905 in Lübeck , † September 28, 1981 in Ibiza ) was a German textbook author, publisher and graphic designer.

Life

Born in Lübeck as the daughter of the architect Arthur Friedrichs and his wife Marie, she attended the Lyceum and then the arts and crafts school in Stuttgart , where she learned textile design. She then went to Paris , studied painting at the academy and earned her living with drawings for German fashion magazines.

In 1938 she married Franz Cornelsen , a graduate engineer in Berlin , who was head of Siemens' international department in Berlin during the war . After the war, Franz Cornelsen, together with Gert H. Theunissen and Sinus Sinodoru, first founded the Minerva publishing house for aesthetic literature and soon afterwards with his wife Hildegard the Cornelsen publishing house for school books in the Berlin- Wilmersdorf artists' colony . Marta Hillers alias "Anonyma" describes the very first beginnings of the publishing house in her famous "Diary" from the entry on May 21, 1945, using pseudonyms.

In 1947 she and her husband adopted their nephew Dirk Cornelsen . His parents, Carla Haufe - sister Hildegard Cornelsen - and Heinz Haufe, actor, director in Stuttgart and most recently director of the Grenzlandtheater in Zittau, had committed suicide in 1945 while fleeing the Soviet army in the presence of their child.

Hildegard Cornelsen died in 1981 at the age of 75. She is buried next to her husband Franz Cornelsen, who died in 1989, in the Schmargendorf cemetery.

plant

In 1948 she published - initially together with the English scholar Kurt Spangenberg - the first volume of the then completely new and amusing English textbook Peter Pim and Billy Ball , whose main characters are two friends. The work became one of the most successful and best-selling school books in the Federal Republic, with the help of which many generations of German students learned English. For decades it was a mainstay of the publishing house and a guarantee of its success (the successor work has the title English ). Hildegard Cornelsen initially illustrated the volumes of this teaching work, later she also wrote - with the support of Englishists and teachers - the text of the numerous volumes by Peter Pim and Billy Ball ( Touring England , Peter Pim in the USA, etc.) herself. Together with the Englishist Adolf In 1963 Lamprecht published an English grammar under the title Present-day English. A short pictorial grammar . The books appeared under her birth name Hildegard Friedrichs.

Publications (selection)

  • Marta Hillers: We're learning Russian. A language guide for beginners. Drawings by Hildegard Friedrichs. Edited on behalf of the German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Leipzig 1945
  • Kurt Spangenberg: Peter Pim and Billy Ball . English textbook for boys and girls. Image and design: Hildegard Friedrichs. Berlin 1948
  • Hildegard Friedrichs / Kurt Spangenberg: Peter Pim and Billy Ball. Touring England. English textbook for boys and girls. Text, design and drawings: Hildegard Friedrichs. Berlin-Bielefeld 1951
  • Hildegard Friedrichs: Peter Pim in the USA. English textbook for boys and girls. Text, design and drawings: Hildegard Friedrichs. Berlin-Bielefeld 1952
  • Adolf Lamprecht / Hildegard Friedrichs: present-day English. a short pictorial grammar. Berlin-Bielefeld 1963
  • Hildegard Friedrichs: English. H1-H5 . Drawings: Hans Kossatz. Berlin 1970
  • Hildegard Friedrichs: English on your way. Berlin 1975

literature

  • Dirk Cornelsen: The trampled fishing game. A childhood in Berlin after 1945 . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003. ISBN 3-89861-213-9
  • Anonyma: A woman in Berlin. Diary entries from April 20 to June 22, 1945 . Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 3-8218-4737-9
  • Margret Boveri: Days of Survival. Berlin 1945 . Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996. ISBN 3-8218-4136-2
  • Theodor Sonnemann: Born in 1900. Up and down in the flow of time . Verlag Johann Wilhelm Naumann, Würzburg 1980. ISBN 3-88567-004-6
  • Karl Blanck and Heinz Haufe: Unknown theater. A book from the director. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Successor, Stuttgart 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boveri: Days of Survival. Berlin 1945 (1996) pp. 299 and 351
  2. ^ Anonyma: A woman in Berlin. Diary entries from April 20 to June 22, 1945 (2002), p. 222ff
  3. ^ Publications by Hildegard Cornelsen geb. Friedrichs in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Cornelsen, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrichs, Hildegard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textbook author, publisher and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1981
Place of death in Ibiza