Margarete Bruch

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Margarete Bruch (born August 29, 1882 in Liverpool , † January 27, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German writer.

Margarete Bruch was born in Liverpool as the daughter of the composer Max Bruch and his wife Clara, a singer. The family moved to Breslau in 1884 , and finally to Berlin in 1890. Bruch attended a secondary school for girls in Breslau and from 1890 to 1898 she studied at the Roenneberg secondary school for girls in Berlin-Friedenau . Then she went to a young girls' home in Remagen for two years  - she learned housekeeping and languages ​​there - but then returned to her parents and worked for her father's secretary and translator for many years. From 1911 to 1913, she made long trips to Italy, Scotland, Iceland and Scandinavia as a partner and travel companion of a captain's wife.

She published poems early on in the Deutsche Romanzeitung . From 1903 to 1910 she was a permanent employee of the Deutsche Zeitung , in addition, she wrote for Westermanns monthly , the daily Rundschau and the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . She published her first volume of poetry in 1910. She also wrote fairy tales and short stories. In 1933 she became a member of the Reich Association of German Writers; but excluded again two years later because her maternal grandmother was Jewish. In addition, she was a member of the General German Writers' Association and the German Association of Women Writers.

Works

  • It sounds the world. Poems . Reissner, Dresden 1910
  • Ballads . Reissner, Dresden 1912
  • Midnight sun. Seals , Schildberger, Berlin 1912
  • with Hans Bruch: fairytale ride! Who's joining? Schneider, Berlin 1919 (children's book)
  • with Emma Böhmer among others: In the monthly round. Twelve fairy tales , Schneider, Berlin 1921
  • Love miracle. Six novellas . Schneider, Berlin 1922
  • Rose legend . Silesian Maienhaus, Breslau 1926
  • with Toska Lettow: "Mother's lovely Highness is beautiful ...". German mother poems from two centuries , Braune Bücher, Berlin 1935

literature

  • Petra Budke and Jutta Schulze: women writers in Berlin from 1871 to 1945 , Orlanda, Recklinghausen 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Bruch, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1963
Place of death Berlin