Margarete Haller

Margarete Haller , pseudonym of Margarethe Deinert , also Margarete Deinet , (born August 1, 1893 in Hamburg , † July 22, 1995 in Rahlstedt ) was a German author for children and young people. Among other things, she wrote the five volumes on Gisel and Ursel .

Life

Margarete Haller was born as the daughter of a Hamburg businessman. Her real name was Margarethe Deinert. After completing her schooling, she began to volunteer in 1913: she transcribed about 100 scientific works in Braille . Due to the inflation after the First World War , she lost her fortune and had to take up a job: She ran a bookstore at Wandsbeker Chaussee 97 in Hamburg. Her brother was also a bookseller and had his business on the Mundsburg, her sister ran another bookstore on Wandsbeker Marktstrasse. In 1943 all three shops of the Deinert siblings fell victim to a bomb attack. Margarethe Deinert was briefly imprisoned in Fuhlsbüttel after she had said that the war had been lost and had to be ended.

Margarethe Deinert later ran the bookstore “Geschw. Deinert ”in Schweriner Strasse in Rahlstedt, which she handed over to the married couple Elna and Peter Blänsdorf in 1967. She lived for a time in Ebersmoorweg 6. Margarethe Deinert became church director in Rahlstedt and organist in the Eilbeck Church of Reconciliation. She spent her twilight years, temporarily blind, in the “Am Hegen” retirement home, where she also died. Margarethe Deinert was buried in Rahlstedt on her 102nd birthday.

With a total circulation of around seven million books, she became a successful writer. This career - under the pseudonym Margarete or M. Haller - began in 1931 after an employee encouraged her to send a story to Franz Schneider Verlag .

Margarete Haller's books for eight to fourteen year olds were realistic and unsentimental. Among other things, the stories about the identical twins Gisel and Ursel , which were published before the Second World War and, reworked, continued to be published in the post-war period, became known. Almost all of Haller's books were published by Franz Schneider Verlag.

Works

• Erika , Leipzig 1931
• Erika and Anneliese , Leipzig 1932
• Gisel and Ursel , Leipzig 1932
• The girls from Oberhofen , Leipzig 1933
• Gisel and Ursel, the two lucky girls , Leipzig 1933
• Bravo, Trude! , Reutlingen 1934
• Four girls drive to the Rhine , Leipzig 1934
• Erika's journey , Leipzig 1935
• Gretel and the Quinta , Leipzig [u. a.] 1935
• Liselotte , Leipzig [a. a.] 1935
• Ilse and the competition , Berlin [a. a.] 1936
• Lotte and the Bund der Vier , Berlin [u. a.] 1936
• Christa's new home , Berlin [a. a.] 1937
• Doris , Berlin [a. a.] 1937
• Gisel and Ursel, the two sports girls , Berlin [u. a.] 1938
• Helga and her friends , Berlin [a. a.] 1938
• Gisel and Ursel on the road , Berlin [u. a.] 1940
• Maria's great journey , Berlin [a. a.] 1940
• Gisel and Ursel am Rhein , Augsburg 1951
• Hilde die Wilde , Augsburg 1951
• The "Fifth" sticks together , Munich 1953
• Gretel shoots the bird , Augsburg 1953
• Hilde and the Fünferbund , Augsburg 1953
• Gisel and Ursel on their own paths , Munich 1955
• Hilde and Heinz , Munich 1955
• Hilde takes care of the animals , Munich 1956
• Hilde and Heinz, the two animal lovers , Munich 1956
• Little Neli , Munich 1956
• Trixi and the helpful shamrock , Munich 1957
• Happy days for Trixi , Munich 1958
• Gisel and Ursel, the funny twins , Munich 1958
• Come again, Trixi! , Munich 1959
• Marianne and her new friend , Munich 1959
• Ute, you are impossible! , Munich 1960
• Wrongly connected and yet correct , Munich 1962
• We are at home here , Munich 1965
• The adventures of little Kornelia , Munich [u. a.] 1972
• Heike's dream comes true , Munich [u. a.] 1972
• Ulla and Christian , Munich [u. a.] 1973
• Much fuss about the suggestion box , Munich [u. a.] 1973
• I wish a friend , Munich [u. a.] 1978