Klara Hofer

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Klara Hofer ( pseudonym for Klara Höffner ; * May 13, 1875 as Klara Gutsche in Bromberg ; † September 1, 1955 in Pilsach , Upper Palatinate ) was a German writer .

Life

Klara Hofer was the daughter of the Silesian school councilor Heinrich Gutsche and his wife Luise Krethlow. She attended a secondary school for girls . In 1897 she married the Protestant pastor and writer Johannes Höffner in Gnesen . She lived with him from 1899 in Cottbus , where Johannes Höffner worked briefly as a prison pastor, and later in Berlin . The family had a daughter and a son, later General Hans Höffner .

Johannes Höffner, who was also the editor of the family magazine " Daheim " and an employee of other press organs, encouraged his wife to write literary works, whereupon she wrote under the pseudonym Hofer. After the death of her husband in 1929, Klara Hofer lived at Pilsach Castle , which was originally intended as her parents' retirement home.

Works

Klara Hofer was the author of short stories and (often biographical ) novels in which she interpreted the personality of the person described using, among other things, experienced speech and inner monologues . Her story "Maria im Baum", which had a total print run of over 70,000 copies by 1946 , and the Hebbel biography "All life is robbery" were particularly successful .

The dungeon found there inspired her to write a novel about Kaspar Hauser.

  • Woe to you that you are a grandson , Berlin 1912
  • All life is robbery , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1913 ( via Friedrich Hebbel )
  • The sliding purple , Berlin 1913
  • The living is right , Stuttgart 1914
  • The sword in the east , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1915
  • Playing with fire , Berlin 1915
  • Friedrich Hebbel and the German Thought , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1916 ( via Friedrich Hebbel )
  • Maria im Baum , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1916
  • Brother Martinus , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1917 ( about Martin Luther )
  • Peace in War , Hagen iW 1917 ( together with Johannes Höffner )
  • Goethe's marriage , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1920 ( about Charlotte von Stein and Christiane Vulpius )
  • The fate of a soul , Nuremberg 1924 ( via Kaspar Hauser )
  • Death calls to the wedding , Nuremberg 1925
  • Sonja Kowalewsky , Stuttgart 1926 ( about Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja )
  • The penitent , Tübingen 1928 ( via August Strindberg )
  • Withdrawal from Moscow , Tübingen 1929 ( via Leo Tolstoy )
  • The mothers , Stuttgart 1931
  • Spring of a German person , Leipzig 1932
  • The brightest night , Berlin-Steglitz 1935
  • The last year , Berlin 1936
  • The squirrel , Munich 1952

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Klara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutsche, Klara (maiden name); Höffner, Klara (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1955
Place of death Pilsach , Upper Palatinate