Johanna Weiskirch

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Johanna Weiskirch (born December 25, 1864 in Selters (Westerwald) as Johanna Schneider , † March 13, 1960 in Düsseldorf ) was a German writer.

Life

Johanna Weiskirch came from a merchant family. She grew up with her five siblings in Selters . After attending a village school , she received private lessons. In 1891 she married the engineer August Weiskirch. Together with her husband, who was the commercial manager of the Anatolian Railway and the Baghdad Railway , Johanna Weiskirch lived in Constantinople and other places in Turkey in the following years . After August Weiskirch's death in 1906, she returned to Germany, where she initially lived in Elberfeld , from 1915 in Wiesbaden , in Braubach and from 1917 in Düsseldorf.

Johanna Weiskirch, who started writing in the nineties of the 19th century, was the author of stories, poems and plays for children's theater.

Works

  • Poems , Magdeburg 1909
  • "And you should be my master" , Leipzig 1909
  • Father and son , Leipzig 1909
  • Little children's performances , Leipzig 1910
  • Small children's scenes for home and school , Munich 1911
  • All sorts of funny things for little boys , Munich 1912
  • Ernst and Scherz for the little ones , Munich 1912
  • Serious and cheerful lectures for children , Munich 1912
  • The German sword , Berlin 1914
  • The maneuvers , Berlin 1914
  • The student cart , Leipzig 1914
  • Patriotic lecture poems , Munich 1915
  • At the Golden Horn , Dresden-A. 1916
  • The father's legacy , Dresden 1917
  • From the days of the Holy War , Dresden-A. 1918
  • Under the crescent and star , Heilbronn 1918
  • The castle mill , Dresden 1919
  • Nicholas among the gnomes and dwarfs , Munich 1921
  • Happy Christmas , Munich 1921
  • The heroic little tailor , Munich 1922
  • The wood chopper and the three wishes , Melsungen 1922
  • And sun over it ... , Berlin-Steglitz 1922
  • The punished elf , Munich 1923
  • The two in the state capital , Munich 1923
  • "Rosenelfchen und Littersporn" and other fairy tales , Elberfeld 1924
  • Traumjörg in Zauberberg , Munich 1924
  • Homeland love , Leipzig 1925
  • Fatherland , Berlin 1925
  • The magic shoe , Munich 1925
  • When the daffodils ring! , Nuremberg 1926 (together with Gottfried Bachem)
  • Miracle star and wand , Frankenthal / Pfalz 1949