Lily Hohenstein

Lily Hohenstein , (born May 11, 1896 in Darmstadt , Hessen , Germany ; † September 28, 1984 there ) was a writer .

Life

Lily Hohenstein was married to Friedrich August Hohenstein (1875–1949). In 1928 she received the German Storyteller Youth Prize for her first work "The Child and the Wounds". In her poet biographies ( Friedrich Schiller , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Adalbert Stifter and others) she tried to capture the creativity of the respective personality. In 1949 she received the Goethe plaque from the Hessian state. From 1973 Hohenstein lived in Darmstadt again . Before that she lived for a few years - probably with her husband (teacher and senior teacher) - in Wiesbaden, how many is unclear.

Works (selection)

• The Child and the Wounds , German Book Association, Berlin 1929
• Use Bandeloh. The Path of a Woman , Reiner Wunderlich, Tübingen 1934
• Manfred . A contender for the Reich , Universitas Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1937
• Schiller . The fighter, the poet (biography), Verlag Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft, Berlin / Darmstadt 1940 and 1954
• Goethe . Growth and Creation (biography), Neff Verlag, Berlin 1942
• Wolfram von Eschenbach (biography), Neff Verlag, Berlin 1944
• The gentle law by Adalbert Stifter (with Otto Schrader), Limes Verlag, 1946
• The legend of Venetian glass , Metopen Verlag, 1948
• Visit to Richterswil , Pattloch Verlag, 1949
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (biography), Athenäum-Verlag, 1957
• Adalbert Stifter. Life story of an overcomer (biography), Athenäum-Verlag, Bonn 1952
• The nights in St. Wendelin. Wolframs von Eschenbach's novel of life , Greifenverlag, 1969

Honors

Youth Prize for German Narrators

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de/h/hohenstein-lily.html
2. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=per%3D%22Lily+Hohenstein%22&method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true
3. ↑ https://www.darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de/h/hohenstein-lily.html