Margarete Lenk

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Margarete Lenk (also: Margarethe Lenk ; born August 29, 1841 in Leipzig as Margarete Klee ; † October 31, 1917 in Dresden ) was a German writer .

Life

Lenk was the daughter of the high school teacher Julius Ludwig Klee . From 1849 the family lived in Dresden , where Margarete Lenk received a classical humanistic education from her father . Later she taught herself as a private teacher. After she had passed the teacher examination in 1863, she ran a private teaching institute until 1868. In the same year she married the preacher Emil Lenk, with whom she lived in Siebenlehn , Saxony, in the following years . In 1873 the couple emigrated to the United States , where Emil Lenk worked as a pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Millstadt (Illinois). In 1889 they both returned to Germany and Emil Lenk took over a pastor's position in Niederplanitz near Zwickau ; from 1891 he was pastor in the Vogtland town of Grün near Lengerfeld . After the death of her husband in 1907, Margarete Lenk lived in Dresden.

Margarete Lenk was the author of numerous stories for children and young people. While she initially processed experiences from her years in America in her works, she later wrote historical stories that were deeply pious and often set in the time of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War . Some of her works have been translated into English and Swedish translated .

Works

  • The little rag collector. Zwickau 1891
  • At the Christmas market. Zwickau 1893
  • The Twins. Zwickau 1894
  • A shamrock. Zwickau 1895
  • Two houses by the stream. Zwickau 1895
  • In the far west. Stuttgart 1896
  • The pastor's children. Zwickau in the sense of 1896
  • Children's hearts. Zwickau 1897
  • The boulder. Zwickau 1898
  • In the service of the Prince of Peace. Zwickau 1899
  • Three wishes. Zwickau 1900
  • The begging singers. Zwickau 1901
  • Seagulls and other stories. Zwickau 1902
  • Faithful hearts. Zwickau 1903
  • In the train station. Zwickau 1904
  • Storm and sunshine. Zwickau iS 1904
  • Through night to the light. Zwickau 1905
  • Lena's wandering years. Zwickau iS 1905
  • Schoolmaster. Zwickau 1905
  • The old closet. Zwickau 1906
  • The Bemme. Zwickau 1906
  • Light and shadow. Zwickau iS 1906
  • Paul and his brothers. Zwickau 1906
  • The thaler. Zwickau 1906
  • God's ways. Reutlingen 1907
  • The child's daily run. Zwickau 1907
  • The siblings. Zwickau 1908
  • The island child. Zwickau 1908
  • Patrick's first Christmas. Zwickau 1908
  • Rudolf's secret. Zwickau 1908
  • You ask strongly to ring the doorbell! Zwickau 1909
  • Thomas, the people priest. Zwickau i. Sat. 1909
  • From my childhood. Zwickau 1910
  • Black and white and other narratives. Zwickau 1910
  • Fifteen years in America. Zwickau 1911
  • A little queen. Zwickau 1911
  • Christmas party. Zwickau 1911
  • Christ Child's picture. Zwickau 1912
  • The forest farmer Friedel. Zwickau 1912
  • We saw his star! Zwickau 1912
  • Nuremberg, the German Empire's treasure chest. Zwickau (Saxony) 1913
  • Siegmund. On the throne of the Sea King. Zwickau (Saxony) 1913
  • Christmas on the sea. Zwickau (Saxony) 1913
  • Hänschen's bathing trip. The doll's dress. Zwickau 1914
  • Half the curtain. Zwickau (Saxony) 1914
  • The little master singers. Zwickau (Saxony) 1914
  • The damsel. Zwickau 1916
  • The shepherd boy. Zwickau 1916
  • In angel dress. Zwickau 1916
  • Lotte. Zwickau 1916
  • Lutz and Fridolin. Zwickau 1916
  • Magister Leopold. Zwickau 1916
  • Swanwit. Zwickau 1916
  • Wolfgang and Edeltraut. Zwickau 1916
  • Firstfruits. Zwickau 1919
  • The goldsmith's daughter. Zwickau 1919
  • Children's stories and rhymes. Zwickau (Saxony) 1921
  • My problem child. Zwickau (Saxony) 1921
  • All kinds of Christmas trees. Zwickau (Saxony) 1927
  • How Hans von Friedberg found peace. Zwickau (Saxony) 1927
  • Skyward. Zwickau 1932
  • The prospector's children. Zwickau 1939

Editing

  • Christmas carols for young and old. Zwickau (Saxony) 1913

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Books: Millstadt Church Records. June 17, 2013, archived from the original on October 7, 2014 ; Retrieved July 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Lenk, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenk, Margarethe; Klee, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1917
Place of death Dresden