Käthe Schulken

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Käthe Schulken (born July 19, 1891 in Vegesack , † July 10, 1974 in Gatersleben ) was a German educator , poet and local writer.

Life

Käthe or Kaethe Schulken was born in Vegesack near Bremen as the daughter of the ship's captain Claus Schulken (1847-1893) and his wife Catharine Spille (1852-1935) and was baptized as a Protestant in the name of Catherine Adelheid. She attended the Lyceum in her hometown and passed the teacher examination in 1911. The school service brought her to Quedlinburg , from where she got to know and love the Harz and the Harz foreland. From 1923 to 1958 she was the head of the school administration in Gatersleben (today the city of Seeland in the Salzland district, Saxony-Anhalt). As a fan of the hiking birds , she began to publish hiking songs and poems in 1920, which mainly describe the natural beauties of the Harz, which became her adopted home, as well as the Weser Uplands . She particularly appreciated the traditional walks with her friends and students on Walpurgis Night on the Brocken . That is why “Fräulein” Schulken was affectionately known as the “Brocken witch”. She died unmarried and without children.

Works

  • Happy hiking, (August Lax) Hildesheim 1920, 2nd edition 1921
  • Gave me the wonderful nature of the kingdom, sketches and poems, with pen drawings by HC Rißmann, (August Lax) Hildesheim / Leipzig 1921, 2nd edition 1924
  • My holy land, sketches and poems, (August Lax) Hildesheim 1922
  • My Weserbuch, (August Lax) Hildesheim / Leipzig 1923
  • From my resin. Walks to the Light, Magdeburg, no year (1925)
  • O valleys, o heights! Wandering voices and poems (the colorful Harz books, vol. 3) Wernigerode 1925
  • Blue mountains in the distance, Harzgedichte, Magdeburg 1938

Honors

  • The primary school in Gatersleben has had her name since June 22, 1996.
  • A refuge on the Ravensberg near Bad Sachsa with a view of the southern Harz foreland to Kyffhäuser bears her name

literature

  • Kürschner's literary calendar , vol. 50, 1943, col. 1021
  • Brigitte Schalk: In the footsteps of Kaethe Schulken, in: History between Harz and Börde, Ed .: Landkreis Aschersleben-Stassfurt, 1.1998
  • Volker J. Wesslau: A Brocken witch from Vegesack. Primary school in the north-eastern Harz foreland was named after Kaethe Schulken, in: Die Norddeutsche (regional part of Bremer Nachrichten ) from January 6, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Schulken, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, poet and local writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vegesack
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1974
Place of death Gatersleben