Irmgard from Faber du Faur

Irmgard von Faber du Faur (later name: Irmgard Mannheimer , born July 4, 1894 in Munich , † January 23, 1955 in Zurich ) was a German writer .

Life

Irmgard von Faber du Faur is a daughter of Hans von Faber du Faur and, through her mother Sophie von Ranke (1864–1917), a granddaughter of Heinrich Ranke . Her twin sister is the painter Armgard from Faber du Faur . She grew up in Munich and Paris . She completed teacher training in Geneva , Zurich and Berlin and then worked as a teacher and educator in rural school homes . She worked for the children's hour of the Munich and Berlin radio and wrote articles for children's magazines . In 1930 she married the theologian Franz Mannheimer . After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933 , the couple emigrated to Switzerland ; from 1936 it lived in Rüschlikon near Zurich.

Irmgard von Faber du Faur's literary work includes short stories , fairy tales , plays and radio plays ; She also collected children's verses , which she published in 1951 in the anthology "Kinderreime der Welt".

Works

• Child and World , Kiel 1929
• A day of little Tom , Frankfurt a. M. 1933
• The Children's Ark , Aarau 1935
• The pilgrim children , Zollikon-Zurich 1940
• Siblings , Zurich 1942
• The red hat , Zurich 1949
• The great journey , Zurich 1953
• Maria Aegyptiaca , Kassel [a. a.] 1953 (together with Ina Lohr)
• Häslein's Adventure , Egg / Zurich 1965

Editing

• Children's rhymes of the world , collected and transcribed by Irmgard von Faber du Faur, Müller & Kiepenheuer, Bergen 1951
• From Arab and other horses , Zurich 1952

literature

• Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio-bibliography , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962