Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann

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Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann (also: Lieselotte von Eltz-Hoffmann , Lieselotte von Eltz , Lieselotte Hoffmann ) (born November 18, 1921 in Vienna ; † October 14, 2019 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian librarian , adult educator , publicist , writer and author of numerous non-fiction books .

Life

Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann was born in Vienna as the daughter of an officer Hoffmann, whose family originally came from Arnstadt in Thuringia. The mother, Gisela Freiin von Schwanberg-Krucina, came from a Prague family. After attending a prestigious Protestant girls' school on Karlsplatz in Vienna and completing a secondary school in 1940, she first studied Protestant theology and then history, German and art history at the University of Vienna . All of these subject areas should be decisive for her later work. Eltz-Hoffmann finished her studies in 1943 with a dissertation on the secularization of Salzburg.

At the end of the Second World War, Eltz-Hoffmann fled Vienna to Salzburg. After an intermezzo as a religious teacher and training as a librarian, from 1948 to 1986 she was head of the Salzburg State Library and was responsible for the establishment and operation of public libraries in the State of Salzburg.

In 1953 Lieselotte Hoffmann married the much older Clemens Freiherrn von Eltz, a tax advisor and auditor, with whom she was married until his death in 1969.

In addition to her work as a librarian, Eltz-Hoffmann was heavily involved in Protestant church circles; In 1972 she became head of the theological study group in Salzburg and was temporarily chairwoman of the Salzbund , an association founded in 1902 to foster Protestant life in Salzburg. In addition, she was largely responsible for building up the Evangelical Educational Center in Salzburg and founded what is probably Austria's first Protestant library. Eltz-Hoffmann showed additional commitment to animal welfare , on which she also wrote some publications. As part of her educational and publication activities, Eltz-Hoffmann was also a freelancer for the Salzburger Nachrichten and other press, including the church, as well as the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , where she occasionally designed school radio programs.

As a writer, Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann was several times a guest at the Salzburger Literaturhaus , lectured at the Frankfurt Book Fair , and as a specialist lecturer she could be heard at the Salzburg Adult Education Center. Eltz-Hoffmann was a member of the Austrian Writers 'Association , the Austrian PEN Club and the Salzburg authors' group . In addition, the specialist author was an honorary member of the Salzburg City Association . She died on October 14, 2019 in Salzburg.

Publications (selection)

Even before she started working in the library, Eltz-Hoffmann began writing specialist books and biographies, and by the end of her life she published a total of more than seventy works on cultural, theological and (art) historical topics, many of them with reference to Salzburg.

  • Adalbert Stifter and Vienna. Vienna, Wiener Verl., 1946
  • Sebastian step. A Salzburg Biedermeier painter. Salzburg, New Publishing Company Mirabell, 1950
  • Women on God's streets. Eight evangelical images of life. Basel, Reinhardt, 1951
  • Moist life. Salzburg, Österreichischer Kulturverlag, 1956
  • The three councilors. Story from the life of Johannes Daniel Falk. Wuppertal, Kiefel, 1963
  • The Alps in ancient views. The artistic development of the mountain landscape through graphics and painting. Salzburg, MM-Verlag, 1964
  • Animal welfare as an educational task. Imst, Egger, 1965
  • Salzburg stories told according to ancient sources. Salzburg, Verlag der Salzburger Nachrichten 1971
  • History and development of evangelical adult education in Salzburg. , Salzburg, self-published, 1976
  • Protestantism in the House of Habsburg. , Bad Rappenau, Mathesius, 1978
  • Salzburg fountain. Salzburg, series of publications by the Salzburg City Association, 1979
  • Martin Luther. From the life of the reformer. , Wuppertal, Kiefel, 1983
  • Bright autumn. From the life of Grandma Moses. Wuppertal, Kiefel, 1984
  • Conversions. Testimonies of Faith from Christianity. Stuttgart, Quell, 1988
  • The churches of Salzburg. Salzburg, Pustet, 1993
  • Church women of the early modern period. Stuttgart, Quell, 1995
  • Salzburg women. Life and work from 13 centuries. , Salzburg, Colorama, 1997
  • Rejoice in the beautiful earth. The Christian understanding of nature through the ages. , Düsseldorf, Patmos, 2000
  • Heinrich Gottlieb Aumüller, the first pastor of the Protestant community in Salzburg. A picture of life. Salzburg, Evangelisches Bildungswerk, 2001
  • "The Archbishops and the Women", in: Bastei for our Salzburg , Zs. Des Stadtverein Salzburg, 53rd year, 2nd episode (2004).
  • The animal. History and present. Cultural-historical considerations. , Bamberg, Weiss, 2007
  • Of the other being. Stories. Frankfurt, August-von Goethe-Literaturverlag, 2009
  • Sense and meaning of the symbol in the course of time. Nordhausen, Bautz 2011
  • The meaning of nature in the Bible. Nordhausen, Bautz 2014

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salt Alliance. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Death: Lieselotte Eltz-Hoffmann. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ In her autobiographical sketch, Eltz-Hoffmann describes it as the “Golden Cross of Merit for the Republic of Austria”. See autobiography, p. 13 .
  4. ↑ The list shows the Silver Medal for 1968.
personal data
SURNAME Eltz-Hoffmann, Lieselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eltz, Lieselotte from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2019
Place of death Salzburg