Lina Staab

Lina Staab (born March 25, 1901 in Neustadt an der Haardt , † December 11, 1987 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German poet.

Lina Staab 1934

Life

As a 19-year-old, Lina Staab published her first book of poems in 1920 at the Actien-Druckerei publishing house in Neustadt. In the same year she began studying music in Würzburg, which she broke off in 1923 after the birth of her daughter Liselotte to take up a position as a secretary at the Palatinate National Education Association. In 1941 she trained as a librarian at the State Library in Speyer and then worked from 1942 to 1961 as a librarian at the Palatinate State Trade Institute in Kaiserslautern. Lina Staab published poems, prose and plays and was a member of the Literary Association of the Palatinate and also worked for magazines and newspapers. In 1981, six years before her death, Lina Staab received the “Palatinate Prize for Literature”. In 1982 she received the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

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In terms of literary history, the work of the poet Lina Staab is often classified under categories such as homeland, landscape or women's poetry. Such frames are, however, very narrow, considering the diversity of the genres it maintains. The consistently sustained “musical tone” of her poems, stories, fairy tales and games, the apparent weightlessness of her language, are the artistic expression of an attitude to life in which literature and life form an existential unit that was not broken by what was often considered puzzling or incomprehensibly designated “sudden silence of the poet” after 1949, but rather culminated in it. Martha Saalfeld , Elisabeth Langgässer and Ina Seidel should be mentioned as important members of the generation .

Publications

Poems and prose

• What is conceived and accomplished . Publishing house Actien-Druckerei. Neustadt ad Haardt, 1920
• Palatinate you my home . Texts to 20 etchings by Paul Bürck. Verlag Koch. Speyer, 1921
• Between the banks . Stories, sagas and legends. Waldkirch publishing house. Ludwigshafen, 1930
• New poems . Heinrich FG Bachmair Verlag. Munich, 1931
• Year of love . Poems. Grote. Berlin 1937
• The festive city . A circle of poems about Würzburg. Grote. Berlin, 1941
• The source . Poems. Hamburg, Ellermann 1942
• Dream and consolation. From a childhood . Publishing house German folk books. Stuttgart, 1949
• Flower fairy tale . Esslingen, Bechtle 1949. Japanese licensed edition by Nankodo. Tokyo and Kyoto, 1958
• Poems . With linocuts by Rudolf Scharpf . Ed. from the Foundation for the Promotion of Art in the Palatinate. Palatinate publishing house. Neustadt / Weinstrasse, 1981

Plays

• The lost sky key. A fairy tale game. Performed by the Palatinate State Theater in the 1924/25 season in all major Palatinate cities; in the 1925/26 season from the Schlesische Volksbühne in several locations; 1928 in Hanau from the local theater. Text published by Bühnenvolksbundverlag, Berlin.
• Maria at the Christmas market . Performed by the Palatinate State Theater in the 1930/31 season in all major Palatinate cities.

Secondary literature

• German women poetry of the present . The yearbook of German poetry. With 36 portraits of German poets. Agnes Miegel, Lina Staab, Ina Seidel, Paula Grogger, Helene Voigt-Diederichs , Veronika Lühe u. a. Edited by the Raabe Foundation, 1936.
• Erwin Damian: Lina Staab - life and work. Palatinate Prize for Literature 1981. Self-published
• Attic and literary salon. Writers in the Palatinate. Selection of works and portraits. PVA, Landau 1991, ISBN 3-87629-185-2 .
• Rheinpfalzische poetesses: a triumvirate. (Elisabeth Langgässer, Martha Saalfeld, Lina Staab), KF Ertel. In: General-Anzeiger Ludwigshafen. 1951, no.70.