Margarete Kubelka

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Margarete Kubelka at the Johann Heinrich Merck Award in Darmstadt (1988)

Margareta Flora Kubelka , married Margarete Kröhnke (born September 14, 1923 in Haida ; † July 2, 2000 in Darmstadt ), was a German writer.

Life

Kubelka spent her childhood and youth in the northern Bohemian towns of Haida, Niemes and Böhmisch-Leipa , where she passed her school leaving examination. Inspired by the professional world of her father, a newspaper publisher, she wrote verses and short prose texts at an early age. As a student of German and Classical Philology at the German University in Prague , Kubelka published her first poems and stories in the press and on the radio. Expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1945 , Margarete Kubelka fled with her mother to Kamenz , where her daughter Claudia was born shortly afterwards. Under difficult circumstances, she continued her studies at the Universities of Rostock and Hamburg , before taking up a teaching position in Eschwege .

In 1951 Kubelka married the pharmacist Alfred Kröhnke from East Prussia and moved to Darmstadt, where her husband worked in the pharmaceutical industry and she herself acted as a housewife, journalist, editor and writer until her death. Her sons Erhard, Karl and Friedrich Kröhnke were born here. Her grave is in the Darmstadt-Eberstadt cemetery.

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Margarete Kubelka published novels, essays, short stories, books for young people and children, crime fiction, radio plays and poetry. In 1962, Maximilian Dietrich Verlag Memmingen published her first novel "Odysseus comes too late", and a year later the second "The Paper Man", both psychological novels about the

The young writer in Prague in 1944
Margarete Kubelka in Prague (1944)

Identifying the protagonists is possible. After the publication of further novels, Kubelka turned more and more to short prose, whereby her texts in the second half of life were increasingly shaped by Christian humanity. As an active member of the Sudeten German artist group Marburger Kreis, which was founded in 1957, she made contact with other authors such as Dagmar Nick , Annemarie in der Au and Herbert Wessely , with whom she had been friends for decades.

In the 1970s, Delp Verlag published the volumes of poetry "Rejection to the Moonlight" and "Imposed Mirrors", from which poems were set to music several times. Kubelka also wrote children's books that were translated into English and Chinese. She worked as a freelancer for the Frankfurter Rundschau , the Wiesbadener Kurier , the Munich Volksbote, the multilingual magazine "Europa", the Lahrer Hinkenden Bote and youth magazines. The Darmstädter Echo regularly published their reviews of cultural events in the area. As Mrs. Margarete, she looked after the kitchen corner in the “Echo”, where she presented a menu every day. For decades she wrote a column in the “Counselor for Home and Family”. Margarete Kubelka is represented in 70 anthologies.

In her literary work, Kubelka dealt with the trauma of flight and expulsion , especially of the Sudeten Germans , and the harsh conditions of the post-war period, in which the integration into a new home had to succeed. She increasingly became a voice of the expellees in the Sudetendeutsche Zeitung , the "Sudetendeutschen Kalender", of which she was editor for a time, in the cultural newspaper "Sudetenland" and in numerous readings at the Heiligenhof . Especially in the stories in “Umhegte Welt” and “Diary of a Childhood” the sheltered childhood in Bohemia is the focus. For the year of the child 1979 stories of displacement were published under the title: "The Death of Sabine". Your revision of Sudeten German sagas makes a contribution to the preservation of East German cultural assets by opening up the scenic, social and historical backgrounds. Her translations of Czech poetry appeared in the series of Marburg sheet-fed prints in 1969 under the title “Ruf des Landes”.

The literary estate with personal documents and photos was transferred to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .

Margarete Kubelka pursued an unusual hobby by collecting handkerchiefs to remember places she had traveled and friends who gave her handkerchiefs on special occasions. In her collection case there were more than a thousand pieces that have passed into her daughter's possession.

Publications

  • Odysseus is too late, Roman, Memmingen 1962.
  • Death in a backpack, radio story, Süddeutscher Rundfunk 1962.
  • The man made of paper, Roman, Memmingen 1963.
  • The most beautiful sagas from the Sudetenland, Munich 1963.
  • "Poor Heinrich Rosenkranz", first edition by Maximilian Dietrich Verlag, Memmingen (1964)
    Poor Heinrich Rosenkranz, Roman, Munich 1964.
  • The Angel in Twilight, Roman, Memmingen 1966.
  • Only one picture remains of everything, Roman, Regensburg 1966.
  • Umhegte Welt, stories, Munich 1967.
  • Funeral pyre for a doll, crime novel, Bremen 1967.
  • The shepherds in the field, stories, Munich 1968.
  • Reputation of the country, transmission of Czech poetry, Freising 1969.
  • Sweet poison memory, poems, Freising 1970.
  • Erich and the girl with the scar, youth novel, Ruit 1972.
  • Rejection of the moonlight, poems, Munich 1972.
  • Guest in foreign cities, poems, Munich 1975.
  • Notated on the way, poems, 1971, Freising 1975.
  • Portrait of a strange man with a green cap, Erzählungen, Freising 1975.
  • The picture molester, radio story, 1976.
  • Castle bed and fire lamp, children's book, Modautal 1977.
  • Arrival when it rains, stories, Munich 1978.
  • Rendezvous with Ingolstadt, poems, Munich 1978.
  • The death of Sabine, Expulsion stories, Munich 1979.
  • Imposed mirrors, poems, Munich 1979.
  • Return to the fountain, stories, Freising 1979.
  • Return ticket to Wernersgrün, radio play, 1979.
  • Saints are also people, stories, Munich 1979, 2nd edition 1982.
  • Diary of a Childhood, Stories, Munich 1980.
  • At home in Darmstadt, poems, Bovenden 1980.
  • The bridge of lights, stories, Munich 1980.
  • Railway trip, radio play, Deutsche Welle 1980.
  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, portrait of a poet. Bonn 1980.
  • Star above the stable, Christmas stories, Heidenheim 1982.
  • Saints are people too, stories, Heidenheim 1982.
  • Ice time, radio play, Munich 1983.
  • I'll ask grandma, children's book, Munich 1983.
  • Mein Freund Füchslein, children's book, Munich 1984.
  • Spa concert, stories, Heidenheim 1984.
  • Not quite back from Budapest, Gedichte, Freising 1985.
  • Myrrh for the child, Roman, Heidenheim 1985.
  • Spur im Sand, Erzählungen, Freising 1985.
  • Hexenturm and Römertor, Göttingen 1987.
  • Message from the island, poems, Göttingen 1987.
  • Till does what he wants, children's book, Münster 1988.
  • Karoline, Erzählungen, Freising 1988.
  • Sale, poems, Göttingen 1989
  • Happy End, Stories, Göttingen 1990.
  • The Mango Tree, Stories, Freising 1991.
  • The perfect Christmas tree & more Christmas stories for young and old, stories, Munich 1991.
  • No motive, crime stories, Freising 1992.
  • Urban and the mantle of St. Martin, Erzählungen, Munich 1993.
  • Reunion in Jaroslaw, radio play, 1994.
  • The picture molester, stories, Freising 1994.
  • The trip to Bethlehem and other stories, Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft 1994.
  • Equation with an unknown, Erzählungen, Freising 1995.
  • How the camel got its humps, Erzählungen, Eschbach 1997.
  • Zeitenspiel, poems, Freising 1996.
  • Memories: miniatures from home, stories, Freising 1998.
  • The odyssey of the black king, stories, Freising 2001.

Awards

  • 1967 Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature
  • 1976 Andreas Gryphius sponsorship award
  • 1976 Radio Play Prize of the West German Broadcasting Corporation and the East German Cultural Council.
  • 1977 Gustav Leutelt Medal
  • 1977 Sudeten German Landscape Prize Polzen-Neisse-Netherlands
  • 1977 Citizenship Ceremony of the City of Darmstadt
  • 1977 Narrator Prize of the Saarbrücken Literary Union
  • 1979 Narrator Award of the Bavarian Radio and the Foundation for Culture in Eastern Europe (OKR)
  • 1982 Adalbert Stifter Medal
  • 1983 Bronze Medal of Merit of the City of Darmstadt
  • 1983 Silver Medal of Honor from the City of Ingolstadt
  • 1983 Patronage Medal of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and the Free State of Bavaria
  • 1985 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1985 Nikolaus Lenau Prize
  • 1987 Graphicum Literature Prize
  • 1988 Poetry Prize of the Artists' Guild
  • 1988 Johann Heinrich Merck award from the city of Darmstadt
  • 1988 laureate of the ex-libris competition of the GEDOK group Rhein-Main-Taunus
  • 1989 GEDOK prizewinner in the poetry competition "My City"
  • 1990 GEDOK prize winner in the short story competition "My City"
  • 1993 Pro-arte medal from the artists' guild
  • 1994 Narrator Award from the broadcaster Free Berlin
  • 1995 Art GEDOK needle

Memberships

literature

  • Eichstätt-Ingolstadt University Library, estate Nl 128: Kubelka, Margarete: Correspondence between Margarete Kubelka and Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht (Göttingen). Darmstadt, February 25, 1965-22. March 1965.

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personal data
SURNAME Kubelka, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kubelka, Margareta Flora (maiden name); Kröhnke, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Haida
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2000
Place of death Darmstadt