Margarete Gericke

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Margarete Gericke , b. Aulich (born June 15, 1911 in Nysa , † November 26, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German writer.

Life

Margarete Gericke was born in Neisse (today Nysa ) in 1911 as the daughter of a master bookbinder and paper goods dealer. In her hometown Neisse in Upper Silesia she attended elementary school and the Protestant girls' college. In 1931 she passed the Abitur and then worked in various church institutions. From 1932 to 1934 she trained as a Protestant parish assistant in the Berlin Bible School of the Burckhard House . She then worked as an educator for mentally handicapped boys in Ober-Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains and in 1936 became a community helper in Bremen.

Margarete Gericke was married to the theologian and church historian Wolfgang Gericke (1914–1993) since 1942 . In the course of her life she changed her place of residence several times, Hohenmölsen (1945), Laucha an der Unstrut (1946), Morl (1947), Finsterwalde (1950), Doberlug-Kirchhain (1961) and Chemnitz (1981). From 1987 she lived in Berlin-Friedrichshain , where she died in 2006 at the age of 95.

Her father-in-law was the Finsterwalder teacher and local historian Wilhelm Gericke (1882–1962).

Work (selection)

Margarete Gericke wrote several stories about historical events and personalities in the Elbe-Elster region . Furthermore, from 1992 to 1998 various articles appeared in regional periodicals, such as the Finsterwalder Heimatkalender .

  • The race at Dobrilugk Monastery (Erz.), 1965;
  • Church dispute in Dobrilugk. Three historical stories. 1978;
  • The Hanschkel case. Investigations. 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German Literature Lexicon. tape 11 . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York, Boston 2008 (founded by Wilhelm Kosch).
  2. ↑ a b c Entry and works by Margarete Gericke in the German National Library
  3. ^ Entry and works by Wolfgang Gericke in the German National Library
  4. ↑ "Who are these men? Search for the Roman cellar ended in the Russian camp" in Lausitzer Rundschau , November 11, 2006
  5. ↑ Heike Lehmann: "Documents from the Gericke estate - grandson of Wilhelm Gericke also hands over originals to the Finsterwalder Museum" in Lausitzer Rundschau , March 30, 2016
  6. ↑ Steffen Engelmann: "250. Birthday New ways to refresh the discouraged ”in Lausitzer Rundschau , November 29, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Gericke, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aulich, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nysa
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2006
Place of death Berlin