Lis Böhle

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Gertrud Elisabeth "Lis" Frederica Böhle , pseudonym Köbeschen , (born July 31, 1901 in Cologne , † October 29, 1990 in Troisdorf ) was a German dialect author who wrote poetry , stories and radio plays in the Cologne language .

Life

Lis Böhle was born in 1901 as the eighth child of the railway secretary Friedrich Böhle and his wife Anna in the Cologne district of Nippes . After attending primary school in Nippes, she graduated from the higher Ursuline school in Cologne's old town . At the age of ten, the girl began writing poems and little stories. In 1925 she married her childhood friend, the publicist Hans Schmitt-Rost . Their daughter Sonja (1925–1990) was born in the same year. In the 1920s she began to publish her texts and poems in Cologne daily newspapers. From 1933 she worked as a freelancer for West German Broadcasting and for the Reich broadcaster in Cologne . She was the first dialect speaker at the station, worked as an editor for dialect programs and produced radio plays as well as Köllsche Verzällcher - small, mostly amusing stories about petty bourgeois family life in Cologne. After the National Socialists had banned her husband from writing and forbade him to continue to publish, she published poems and rags in the Kölnische Zeitung and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger under the pseudonym Köbeschen in order to secure the family's livelihood. In 1937, with Himmel und Äd, it published the first collection of texts in the Cologne language, followed by the Schwatz op wieß collection of texts during the Second World War . When Cologne was increasingly exposed to the bombing , the family spent the last three years of the war in Oberstdorf . The couple returned to Cologne immediately after the war. Hans Schmitt-Rott was appointed head of the Cologne news office. After the war, the couple lived in downtown Cologne, on Johannisstrasse.

Family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

From June 1946 she regularly produced poetry and prose readings as well as radio plays in the Cologne language on West German radio, including for children in the Lis Böhle series and the Cologne Pänz . In addition, she regularly wrote short stories for the Cologne daily newspapers, including the article series Et Köbesche schriev for over 30 years . She achieved great popularity with the radio series Wat da Schmitzens all happened , which was broadcast from 1960 to 1974.

After the death of her husband in 1978, she withdrew from public life and died in 1990 a few months after the death of her daughter in the shared apartment in Troisdorf. Lis Böhle was buried at her husband's side in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (Lit J, between Lit B and Lit C).

Honor

In the Cologne district Nippes 1997 in recognition of their lifetime achievements of Lis-Böhle Park on inside greenbelt named after the Cologne dialect poet. On March 10, 2014, the Cologne city council decided to include the couple's grave in the list of graves for deserving citizens of the city of Cologne.

Works (selection)

  • Himmel un Äd , 1937
  • Schwatz op wieß , 1940
  • Zwesche Ring un Rhing , 1947
  • Jeck op Kölle , 1955
  • Cologne season , 1963
  • Kölle, ming world , 1979
  • Levve un levve losse , 1981
  • E solves kölsch Klieblatt , 1985
  • Nippes , Volume 2: Happy Years (with Reinhold Kruse), 1995
  • Song: Kölle, mi Kölle , 1938, set to music by Leo Eysoldt , sung by Fritz Neumann on Telefunken M 6523

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Kohlschmidt, Wolfgang Mohr: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte . 1: ak.Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-087956-8 , p. 521 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon the 20th Century: Biographisches-Bibliographisches Handbuch . tape 3 Blaas - Braunfels. Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 242 .
  3. ^ Ingrid Scheffler: Writers and literature in the NWDR Cologne (1945-1955): people, materials, forms of presentation . In: German Broadcasting Archive (Ed.): Publications of the German Broadcasting Archive . tape 40 . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-935035-77-4 , pp. 101 ff .
  4. ↑ Lis Böhle: E Mädsche vum Neppes. In: Klaaf 01/2012. Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch, accessed on January 27, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Provinzialinstitut für Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde (Ed.): Westfälische Forschungen, Volume 52, Aschendorff, 2002, p. 291
  6. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 67.
  7. ↑ Josef Abt & Joh. Ralf Beines: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 75 .
  8. ^ City of Cologne: inclusion of a grave in the list of graves for deserving citizens and takeover. In: Council information system of the City of Cologne 0083/2014. March 10, 2014, accessed January 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Böhle, Lis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhle, Gertrud Elisabeth Frederica; Schmitt-Böhle, Lis (married name); Köbeschen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect author
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1990
Place of death Troisdorf