Margarete Boie

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Margarete Ida Boie (born October 22, 1880 in Berlin , † February 4, 1946 in Lüneburg ) was a German writer. Many of her novels were about the history, landscape and people of the island of Sylt.

Life

She was the daughter of the officer Bernhard Boie (1839-1896) from Danzig and von Ida, b. Vennigerholz (1850-1936). Due to her father's military career, she spent her youth in changing north German garrison towns, most recently in Thorn . After attending the business school in Gdansk, she found a job in the local natural history museum . During the First World War she then worked in the editorial department of the Lüneburgischer Anzeiger . The community with the painter Helene Varges , with whom she lived in Emden , Juist , Lüneburg and on Helgoland , arose early on . In January 1919, the two came to Sylt, where they were to spend the next 10 years. Sylt, the history of Sylt, the landscape and the people there became the center of Boie's literary work and the subject of several of her books.

These include The Delicious Life (1918), in which she already gives impressions of an earlier short visit to Sylt, then Sisters (1921), in which she describes the changing seasons of island life in 12 chapters corresponding to 12 months. The main character of the historical novel Der Sylter Hahn is Sylter Lorens Petersen de Hahn (1668–1774), who first went to sea on a whaler and then returned home from the Greenland voyages beach inspector in Sylt, where he managed to get the Sylterns used to beach robbery . Moiken Peter Ohm (1926) describes a woman's life on Sylt around 1800. The book The Last Sylt Giants (1930) depicts the period between 1830 and 1850 with the two "Sylt Giants" as the main characters, the governors Uwe Jens Lornsen and Schwen Hans Jensen , and their struggle for a more independent Schleswig-Holstein . This historical material was based on the records of the Sylt chronicler Christian Peter Hansen . The novel Dammbau then takes us into the present Boies , which revolves around the difficulties and conflicts surrounding the construction of the Hindenburgdamm , which was completed in 1927 and which created a rail link between Sylt and the mainland, with all the consequences for the Sylt's way of life. His partner Varges contributed the book decorations to numerous works by Boie.

A heart condition finally forced Boie to leave Sylt for a long time and to look for a milder climate. In the following years she lived in different places in Germany, including Thuringia, Oldenburg, Erfurt, for a long time in Berlin and again and again in her hometown Gdansk. Boie died in Lüneburg and was buried in the Lüneburg Central Cemetery in the grave of his friends, the Wachsmuth family. Her grave has not been preserved.

In Hanover-Oberricklingen there is an Ida-Boie-Strasse, so only with her middle name.

Works

  • The delicious life. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1918.
  • Sisters. The annual course of an island. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1921.
  • The faithful Ose. Legend of the island of Sylt. CL Jensen's bookstore, Westerland 1922.
  • The prelude. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Bo the giant. CL Jensen's bookstore, Westerland 1923.
  • Leader of Sylt. Johs Cords, Westerland 1925.
  • The Sylt rooster. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1925.
  • Waal - Waal! JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1926 (youth edition of Der Sylter Hahn ).
  • Moiken Peter Ohm. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1926.
  • Holidays on Sylt. With 20 illustrations after drawings by Helene Varges. H. Bermühler, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1928.
  • The last Sylt giants. Compiled from the notes of a contemporary. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Dam construction . Sylt novel from the present. Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1930 (6th edition 1985). New edition: Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-89876-610-4 .
  • Sylt loyalty. Two legends from the island of Sylt. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1932.
  • A change. Agency d. Rauhen Haus, Hamburg [1932].
  • The miller's wife from Tholensdeich. Agency d. Rauhen Haus, Hamburg 1933.
  • Eleonora Christine and Corfiz Ulfeldt. The life novel of a king's daughter. Gerh. Stalling, Oldenburg 1936.
  • The old farmer. Agency d. Rauhen Haus, Hamburg [1936].
  • How Lorens the Rooster drove to Greenland. J. Beltz, Langensalza 1937.
  • Whaling in the Arctic Ocean. Heckner, Wolfenbüttel 1937.
  • Uwe Jens Lornsen in Kiel. J. Beltz, Langensalza 1938.
  • Hugo Conwentz and his homeland. A book of memories. Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1940.
  • The day trip of the Prussians. JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1942.
  • Throughout the year ... Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1944.

literature

  • Manfred Wedemeyer : Margarete Boie: the poet of the island of Sylt. Profil, Munich & Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-89019-421-4 .
  • Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Ed. On behalf of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History v. Olaf Klose . Wachholtz, Neumünster, Vol. 3 1974, sv

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ full name according to Manfred Wedemeyer: Boie, Margerete Ida . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Boie, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boie, Margarete Ida (full name); Boie, Margarethe Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1946
Place of death Luneburg