Irma von Drygalski

Irma von Drygalski (born December 3, 1892 in Charlottenburg , † March 4, 1953 in Heidelberg - Handschuhsheim ) was a German local poet .

Life

Drygalski, an officer's daughter from Berlin, spent half of her life in Heidelberg. As a trained actress, she was imaginative and gifted with languages. This activity was interrupted in 1915 when she worked as a nurse in hospitals in Romania and Galicia until 1918 . In 1919 she moved to Heidelberg because of her marriage. Here she began her literary work. As a writer, she processed local and historical material. She also worked for the Heidelberg Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . Drygalski was married to the Heidelberg city archivist and folklorist Herbert Derwein . The couple is buried in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof .

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Drygalski wrote novels , novellas , short stories , plays , as well as texts for hand puppet . The subject of her Heimat plays are the people of the Electoral Palatinate , whom she describes in their unspoilt way of life. Alongside the peasant prophet Johann Adam Müller (1928), her novella "In the shadow of the holy mountain" (1927) became widely known. Her play "Luther in Heidelberg", which she wrote for the Reformation celebration in 1933, was performed several times in the Heidelberg city hall . In 1935 Irma von Drygalski received the Dietrich Eckart Prize , which the Leipzig Reclam Verlag had announced. In 1937 the novel “Rineck. Dream and curse of the land drivers ”, which was recognized as a“ great literary achievement ”(Ernst Weis).

Selection of works

• Flipp Woller (story, 1927)
• In the shadow of the holy mountain. Six novellas about Heidelberg (1927)
• The Peasant Prophet (novel, 1928)
• Juliane von Krüdener (novel, 1928)
• The word from the cross: Luther in Heidelberg (play, 1933)
• Rineck. Dream and curse of the rural drivers (novel, 1937)