Ilse Pohl

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Ilse Pohl (born May 7, 1907 in Berlin ; † May 13, 2010 in Dreieich - Götzenhain ) was a German author .

Life

After finishing school, she learned about farm management for a year in Neu-Strelitz, worked in a sanatorium and went to Budapest as an au pair . Then she attended an art school in Berlin. She married in 1929 and her son was born in 1932. Numerous moves followed due to her husband's job, until she settled in Dreieich-Götzenhain in 1962. There she got involved in the playgroup of the Protestant parish for disabled children in the 1970s and led it for a time.

From the age of 69, her first three book publications - one addressed to adults (1977), two to young people (1976 and 1978) - were published by the Stuttgart publishing house Junge Gemeinde . In 1986 she set up the literary group for seniors, which she headed for twelve years. From 1989 onwards she published numerous self-publications , the first two at RG Fischer . Her husband died in 1992.

In 1996 she met the founder of self- publishing companies , which are grouped under the name " Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe ", and wrote the first volume of her three-part autobiography on his advice. For its publication in the "Fouqué Literaturverlag" affiliated with his group of companies, she received the 1997 literary prize of the Association of German Writers, which is controversial because of its association with the "Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe" . In 2002, at the age of 95, she was appointed chairwoman of the supervisory board of this group of companies.

In 2008 she was awarded the undoped honorary prize of the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize “Future Age” for her literary work of the past. In his analysis of the entries for the Otto Mühlschlegel Prize 2008, the gerontologist Andreas Kruse named the 101-year-old winner, Ilse Pohl, a convincing example of creativity in old age. In the same year Ilse Pohl received the Hessian Order of Merit in particular for her commitment to the Albert-Schweitzer Children's Villages in Hesse, for whose children she looked after she organized and financed boat trips on the Main and drew attention to the idea and organization of the children's villages with readings.

In 2008 Ilse Pohl was portrayed in the ZDF documentary 37 Grad as one of three centenarians. In the same year she was a talk guest on the talk show Nachtcafé on SWR television , in 2009 on Maischberger and also in 2009 on the radio show Longer living? in Deutschlandradio Kultur .

Ilse Pohl died two years after the death of her son in 2010, six days after her 103rd birthday. She was posthumously honored with the naming of a street in the Dreieich district of Götzenhain .

Awards

Posthumously:

  • 2011: "Ilse-Pohl-Straße" in the Dreieich district of Götzenhain named after her.

Bibliography (selection)

narrative

Children's and young people's literature

  • Exciting summer days. 2 stories for girls around 15 , Verlag Junge Gemeinde, Stuttgart 1976
  • 3x Spiekeroog there and back , Verlag Junge Gemeinde, Stuttgart 1978

Self publications

Fiction

  • Seven ways, seven goals. , RG Fischer, Frankfurt 1989
  • Markus. Story , RG Fischer, Frankfurt 1989

Non-fiction

  • Wings of hope. Memories of the years 1907 to 1937 , Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt et al. 1997
  • And every day needs to be lived. Memories of the years 1937–1967 , Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt et al. 1998
  • Say goodbye and begin. Memories of the years 1967–1997 , Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Frankfurt et al. 1999
  • Miniatures:
    • 1. My songs will live: miniatures by Cornelia Goethe, Adele Schopenhauer, Clara Schumann and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Cornelia-Goethe-Akademie, Frankfurt 2005; Translated into English by Lucinda Bowles, Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt and London 2006
    • 2. The small silk bag , Brentano-Gesellschaft Frankfurt mbH, Frankfurt 2006
    • 3. The last thing is hidden: miniatures by Hans Christian Andersen, Demetrius Augustin Prince von Gallitzin, Wilhelm Busch, Oscar Wilde and Ernst Ginsberg , Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt and London 2007
    • 4. Johann Sebastian Bach: Miniature , with illustration by Walfried Posse [u. a.], Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe, Frankfurt and London 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Enrico Sauda: Obituary: And she had still planned so much , Offenbach-Post , May 18, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c d e Götzenhain gets “Ilse-Pohl-Straße” , Offenbach-Post , October 27, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c Ilse Pohl - a bearer of hope and a great role model , Offenbach Post, March 18, 2008, online on the website of Albert Schweitzer Kinderdorf Hessen eV
  4. ↑ Ilse Pohl's curriculum vitae , online at ilse-pohl.de
  5. ^ "The Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Holding AG is under the leadership of the 100-year- old chairwoman of the supervisory board, Ilse Pohl ..." , autoren-magazin.de , May 7, 2008
  6. ↑ Ilse Pohl died , Offenbach-Post , May 16, 2010
  7. ↑ Report 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Robert Bosch Stiftung , PDF file 95 pages, for Ilse Pohl see p. 9 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bosch-stiftung.de
  8. ↑ Michael Brömse: Review of Andreas Kruse (Ed.): Creativity in old age. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5819-8 . Online at socialnet.de
  9. ↑ On the wealth of a long life: ZDF series "37 °" portrays centenarians , presseportal.de , October 17, 2008
  10. ↑ Ilse Pohl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  11. ↑ Maike Jansen: Late Night: Maischberger reveals the centenarians' secret , Die Welt , April 1, 2009
  12. ↑ Live longer? The secret of aging , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , July 18, 2009
  13. ↑ Markus von Hänsel-Hohenhausen: "So that I can live" , online at ilse-pohl.de
  14. ↑ Magazine 94 ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Robert Bosch Stiftung , July 2008, PDF, p. 13 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bosch-stiftung.de
  15. ↑ Ilse Pohl - Writer in Old Age - Honor Award , bosch-stiftung.de
  16. ^ A street in honor of Ilse Pohl , Frankfurter Neue Presse , October 28, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2010
Place of death Dreieich - Götzenhain