Margarete Gebhardt

Margarete "Grete" Gebhardt (born August 16, 1870 in Crossen an der Oder ; † after 1940) was a German teacher , author of local history writings and playwright .

Life

Margarete Gebhardt was the youngest child of an educated craftsman and a pastor's daughter. She had a brother and two sisters, the older sister was the teacher and writer Florentine Gebhardt . The brother was the oldest child in the family. He studied and became a pastor. Her sister Marie Elisabeth "Lise" became a teacher.

Margarete worked as a teacher and vice-principal at the grammar school in Sorau / Niederlausitz . The director there was Emil Engelmann , whom she paid tribute to in 1941 in the Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen on the occasion of his 80th birthday. In Sorau she was the secretary and archivist of the Association for the History of Sorau and the Sorau Crafts Association , which Engelmann presided over. It is known to have a residence at Priebuser Straße 55 in 1928.

Probably Gebhardt's most important work was the series Legends and Stories from Lusatia published by Hans Rauert in the years from 1921 onwards . Told for the youth . She wrote the saga Die Losbitte , which was dealt with in 1922, again as a screenplay for the theater in 1927. Some works were also created in cooperation with her sister, in some cases she illustrated her books. ^;

Publications (selection)

• Sixty tomato dishes . Verlag Deutsche Tageszeitung, Berlin 1916.
• Who is most useful? A performance for children (stage play). Höfling, Munich 1919
• Legends and stories from Lausitz: told for young people . Rauert & Pittius, Sorau:
  • The Rape of the Princess (1921)
  • The Lottery (1922)
  • The Lindworm (1922)
  • The Atonement Cross (1922)
  • The robbery castle (1922)
  • Saint Barbara (1923)
  • The giant castle (1923)
  • Wunzen Castle (1923)
  • The thing days in Sakrow (1924)
  • The day of Pförten (1924)
  • Whit Tuesday in Sorau (1926)
  • Nickel von Rothe (1926)
• The lot request. A game for the people based on a medieval custom in 2 pictures (stage play). Publishing house G. Danner, Mühlhausen i. Door. 1927.
• On the history of jurisprudence and jurisdiction in the city and rule of Sorau; according to extracts from laws, decrees, documents, chronicles . 1928.
• About the executioner at Sorau, his duties and his pay and more; on the basis of the appointment from 1656 (sheets from a Sorau city book, archive of the local history museum) and from the files of the Secret State Archive Berlin-Dahlem . 1929.
• What the Sorauer Citizens' Books told me. Chat . In: Sorauer Tageblatt, January 1932.
• Sorau pewter and what came to us of their art. Chat . 1934.
• Balthasar Erdmann von Promnitz as an economist . 1935.

literature

• Gebhart, Margarete ; in: Jürgen Israel (Hrsg.), Peter Walther (Hrsg.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. Volume 1: A Reader. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-68-1 . P.64 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gudrun Wedel : Gebhart, Florentine ; in: Autobiographies of Women. a lexicon. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Weimar 2010. ISBN 3-412205-85-0 . P. 261
2. ^ Gudrun Wedel: Lessons between work and profession. Insights into the lives of women autobiographers from the 19th century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-205990-41-2 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Margarete Gebhardt , LiteraturPort.
4. ↑ Margarete Gebhardt: Director of Studies Dr. E. Engelmann - Sorau 80 years. In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen . Volume 29, Guben 1941, pp. 195-196.
5. ↑ Sorau / Shoemakers Guild 1620-1795 in GenWiki .
6. ^ Name index of the inhabitants of the district town Sorau N.-L. - Civil status on October 1, 1928. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 18.
7. ↑ Florentine Gebhardt; Margarete Gebhardt: From the original source. Pictures and Shape from d. old testament; in poetry. R. Zacharias, Magdeburg 1910.
8. ↑ Florentine Gebhardt: Franconian miracles. A summer trip through Franconia; with legends and tales; tells. for the more mature youth of both sexes and all who love romance. R. Zacharias, Magdeburg 1927.