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Ilse Schreiber (born 21 February 1886 in Pyrmont as Ilse Gottwald ; died 27. February 1980 in Fischach ) was a German writer. Her focus was on youth books and adventure literature on Canada .

Life

Ilse Gottwald married the lawyer and professor Otto Schreiber (1882–1929). She lived with him in Berlin and in Königsberg.

With Otto Schreiber she went on a trip through the United States from 1927 to 1928 , during which the couple also made trips to Canada. After the death of the man with whom she had already traveled extensively all over the world, Schreiber traveled to Canada again on a study trip, where she also got to know Alaska and especially the local peoples.

During the Second World War, she fled Berlin to the Lüneburg Heath , then moved to Prien am Chiemsee in Bavaria in the late 1940s . Her last home was in Fischach .

Work (selection)

She wrote numerous youth and travel novels about Canada, in which young German immigrants colonize the Canadian wilderness. Her first novel corresponded to the Weimar Zeitgeist of the emancipated, active protagonist as well as the American ideal of the immigrant reclaiming the wilderness, but at the same time the technical and racial-cultural superiority of Germans, as propagated by National Socialism . This tendency gave rise to openly presented racism and anti-Semitism in Schreiber's later books.

  • The Sisters from Memel (1934)
  • The big game (1935) / Big game in Mengerssen (1936)
  • The Escape to Paradise (1938)
  • Canadian Stories (1941)
  • On the Edge of the Wild (1941)
  • The dune worm (1941)
  • Fight against Manitou (1942)
  • The god of the strange earth (1943)
  • The Land of Wheat and Tears (1943)
  • Home Under Heaven (1949)
  • Magic under Tabahu (1954)
  • I guess I was wise to find you (1961)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ilse Schreiber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 421.
  3. ↑ Florentine Strzelczyk: Fighting against Manitou In: Rob McFarland, Michelle Stott James (Ed.): Sophie Discovers America: German-Speaking Women Write the New World. Camden House, Rochester 2014, pp. 205-219.
personal data
SURNAME Clerk, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottwald, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German youth writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1980
Place of death Fischach