Käthe Sturmfels

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Käthe Sturmfels , married Becker (born November 25, 1878 in Seligenstadt , † November 15, 1958 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the name of Käthe Sturmfels-Becker.

Life

Sturmfels was born as the daughter of a pastor in Seligenstadt. She was trained in the arts and crafts in Hanau ; trips to Switzerland , Sweden and Russia followed . In 1907 she married Wilhelm Martin Becker, who later became a teacher, and from that time lived in Darmstadt. Their daughter Mechthilt was born in 1909, their son Otfried in 1911 and their son Meinhart in 1913.

From 1905 onwards, Sturmfels wrote writings for young people, but mainly dealt with the question of women . Here she took a clearly anti-feminist stance. In her work, Krank am Wibe , published in 1909, she propagated, for example, that motherhood is the “only… sense of being a woman”.

Sturmfels was in contact with Hermann Hesse by letter . Wilhelm Heidwolf Arnold (1897–1984) created a bust of her in 1920.

She was a member of the Reich Association of German Writers .

Works

  • What is the woman allowed when she is in love? Reflections on the nature and development of women. Greiner, Stuttgart 1907. (99th edition 1931)
  • The sister of the beautiful Margaret. From a woman's life. Novel. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1907.
  • Sick in the woman. A polemic. With a foreword by Dagobert von Gerhardt-Amyntor . Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1909.
  • Love girls. Three novels. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1910.
  • Songs and poems by Kätchen Becker, b. Storm Rock. Schmitt, Landau 1915.
  • Leadership. A speech in front of the association “German Youth”. (in Germany's Renewal , No. 4, 1920)
  • How do I become a fine woman? Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Sex education. Hachmeister & Stahl, Leipzig 1926.
  • Christmas fairy tales on the mountain. Christmas legend in 3 pictures. Heyer, Berlin 1932.
  • Hedwig has a child. A German comedy. Heyer, Berlin q934.

literature

  • Becker, Kathe . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 162.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the bugbear "Scholar Woman". The long road to women's studies . br-online.de
  2. ^ Herbert Henck: Hermann Heiss: Supplements to a biography . Kompost, Deinstedt 2009, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Sturmfels, Käthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Käthe (married name); Sturmfels-Becker, Käthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Seligenstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1958
Place of death Darmstadt