Ida Frohnmeyer

Ida Frohnmeyer (born December 31, 1882 in Calicut / India ; † August 29, 1968 in Basel ) was a German - Swiss writer .

Life

Ida Frohnmeyer was the daughter of a German-Swiss couple, namely Leonhard Johannes Frohnmeyer and Marie Wilhelmine (née Bührer), who worked in India in the service of the Basel Mission . She came to Switzerland in 1886 , where she grew up with relatives in Basel . From 1893 she lived in Calw with Hermann Hesse's parents , with whom she was close friends. From 1895 to 1897 she attended a secondary school for girls in Cannstatt , and then she trained as a kindergarten teacher in Stuttgart . Until 1902 she practiced this profession in Calw; after that she was a teacher in Scotland for three years . After her return she lived in Basel, where she worked as a teacher from 1915 to 1918. From 1918 to 1957 she edited the family magazine Die Garbe . As an employee of the Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag , she was good friends with Tina Truog-Saluz .

Ida Frohnmeyer was the author of a literary work that includes novels and stories for children and adults, poems , plays and radio plays and is strongly influenced by her Christian convictions.

Frohnmeyer remained single. Born a German, she was naturalized in Basel in 1933.

Works

Authorship

• From Kinderland , Stuttgart 1912
• From the orphans in the Kurgland , Basel 1914
• Our little comrades , Basel 1917
• Friends , Basel 1919
• And who are all my brothers , Heilbronn 1920
• From silent streets , Basel 1921
• Hansi. The old floor chamber , Stuttgart 1921
• Escape to life , Basel 1925
• The big day. The Guilt , Basel 1925
• Mother's little Marie , Basel 1925
• Sophielie. After the funeral , Basel 1926
• The bird's nest. Christel's journey , Basel 1926
• The zapperli. My Sandman , Basel 1926
• Kinderland , St. Gallen 1927
• The parishioners and their strange guests , Basel 1927
• How the Christmas Eve ran after the Sanitary Council Siegel , St. Gallen 1927
• Anneli , Lahr, Baden 1928
• Mrs. Hasenfratz and her tenants , Basel 1929
• Small leverage , Basel 1929
• Christmas game , Basel 1929
• Ameile Ohnesorg. The way of the brother Bernhardus , Lahr 1930
• Gotte Grety , Basel 1930
• The most beautiful holidays , Lahr 1930
• Two houses opposite , Basel 1931
• Brigitte and her siblings , Lahr 1932
• Legends , Basel 1932
• Strange love stories , Basel 1932
• Poems , Basel [a. a.] 1933
• Hedy and the others , Basel 1934
• On Christmas Eve , Basel 1934
• The checkered cloth , Lahr, Baden 1935
• The chaffinch house , Basel [u. a.] 1936
• The guest , Basel 1936
• Annemeili Ohnesorg and other stories for young people , Basel 1939
• In the Lebensgarten , Basel 1939
• Regula Brodbeck , Basel 1942
• The Goldfinch League , Basel 1942
• The cousin from America , Basel 1942
• Around Christmas time , Basel 1943
• The wolf and the seven young goats , Aarau 1943
• Kinderland , Basel 1944
• Judith , Basel 1945
• Salome runs away , Zurich 1945
• We travel through India , Basel 1945 (together with Paul Wüst)
• Christmas Eve , Basel 1946
• “The eternal light…” , Basel 1948
• Liberation , Basel 1949
• “The checkered cloth” and “Lisis Reh” , Zurich 1949
• Michael , Basel 1950
• The country doctor and his wife , Basel 1954
• Mother and Child , Basel 1955
• "But it happened at the time ..." , Basel 1956
• The cheerful summer , Basel 1956
• Dorothee , Basel 1958
• The man in the moon and other stories , Basel 1960
• The maid Elise and other stories , Basel 1962

Editing

• Immanuel Friz : Dr. Barnardo, the father of the "no man's children" , Basel 1949
• Christmas stories from near and far , Basel 1949

Translations

• Ayadurai Jesudasan Appasamy : Sundar Singh , Basel 1960 (translated together with Gretha Barth)
• Norman Percy Grubb : Edith Moules, the mother of the lepers , Basel 1954
• Norman Percy Grubb: Jack Harrison , Basel 1952
• Mr. Jones goes to Bethlehem , Basel 1965

Web links

• Verena Rutschmann: Frohnmeyer, Ida. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ida Frohnmeyer in the "Basel literary archive"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Verena Rutschmann: Ida Frohnmeyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 10, 2004 , accessed June 16, 2018 .