Lotte Denkhaus
Lotte Denkhaus (born March 1, 1905 in Orsoy (Lower Rhine) , † October 19, 1986 in Bonn ) was a German writer and pastor's wife in Velbert , Bremen and Bonn.
Life
Lotte Denkhaus was born into a pastor's family, grew up in Essen, studied in Marburg and learned nursing at Bethel . At the age of twenty-two she married the pastor Friedel Denkhaus, with whom she lived in Velbert , Bremen and Bonn . In Bremen she made friends with the poet Rudolf Alexander Schröder . As a widow she looked after mentally ill and mentally handicapped people in Bonn. She has written several poems and the lyrics to the hymn "I want to go to my father" ( Protestant hymnal no. 315).
Works
- We are guests. Poems. Oncken, Stuttgart 1947.
- Rudolf Alexander Schröder . Oncken, Stuttgart 1947.
- The guest. Play. Oncken, Stuttgart 1947.
- Otto Freiherr von Taube. A Christian poet of our day. Gladbeck 1949.
- The hearing. Gladbeck 1949.
- Middle of all time. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1957.
- Give us strength to pray. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1960.
- Peace has taken the city. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1977, ISBN 3-7887-0529-9 .
- But we should have peace. The Dorbandt Trace, Berlin 1968.
- Drink the quiet. Wittig, Hamburg 1970.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information according to Wolfgang Herbst : Wer ist Wer in the hymnal . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lotte Denkhaus in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Denkhaus, Lotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor's wife and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsoy (Lower Rhine) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1986 |
| Place of death | Bonn |