Margarete Weinhandl

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Margarete Weinhandl (born June 5, 1880 in Cilli as Margarete Glantschnigg, † September 28, 1975 in Graz ) was an Austrian - German writer , narrator , poet and teacher .

Life

Margarete was born in Cilli in Lower Styria (today part of Slovenia ) in 1880 . She was the second daughter of the lawyer Eduard Glantschnigg and his wife Emilie, née Hofmann.

In autumn 1889 the family moved to Marburg, (today Maribor in Slovenia) where Margarete attended elementary school and from 1891 to July 1894 the community school. In the summer of 1898 her sister Elsa, three years older than her, died after a long illness.

After founding the German state teacher training institute in Marburg in 1902, she began studying here, which she completed in 1906 with a teaching qualification. The death of her father in August 1907 caused her to move to Graz with her mother in the autumn of the same year and to take up a position as a teacher at the local Protestant school. Here in the Styrian capital, she published her first literary works in the following years, namely essays in the Schulbote by Franz Frisch, contributions to the art warden by Ferdinand Avenarius , poems in Viktor von Geramb's collection Heimatgrüße and in Rosegger's Heimgarten .

In 1919 Margarete Glantschnigg met the philosopher Ferdinand Weinhandl , who was 15 years her junior , and married him. She moved with him in 1921 to the Baltic Sea city of Kiel , where her husband worked as a university professor from 1927 after his habilitation .

In 1933 Margarete Weinhandl joined the NSDAP . Since 1934 she was volunteer in the Gaustab of the Nazi women's union as a department head for ideological training and as an employee in the racial policy office of the NSDAP . At the "National Political Adult Education Center", the former Kiel Adult Education Center, where her husband worked for SHUG a . a. In the winter semester 1933/34 held an event on the "Weltanschauung of National Socialism", she gave (in the same semester) a course on "The National Socialist Weltanschauung in the sphere of responsibility of German women".

In 1942 the couple moved to Frankfurt am Main and in 1944 they both returned to Graz.

After the end of the war, Weinhandl's writing And your forests rustle away. Childhood in Lower Styria (Leykam, Graz 1943) in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany placed on the list of literature to be discarded. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by their Moorsonne ( Steinkopf , Stuttgart 1940). And your forests rush away also found its way into the list of blocked authors and books published by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education .

Margarete Weinhandl lived and worked in Graz until the end of her life on September 28, 1975.

Works (in selection)

  • A rice sprang from it , (1921)
  • Education and reticence , (1922)
  • Styria , a seal, (1923)
  • Schleswig-Holstein , a landscape poem, (1927)
  • Festival to celebrate the centenary of the Protestant school in Graz 1828 - 1928 , (1928)
  • The Inner Day , (1929)
  • The God-friend Nikolaus von der Flüe , (1929)
  • Lising , (1930)
  • Small stage , (1931)
  • The dowser , novel, (1931)
  • The morning bird , narration, (1932)
  • In the heart of the garden , narrative, (1934)
  • Blessing the earth , seal, (1937)
  • Moorsonne , novel, (1940)
  • And your woods rustle away (1942)
  • Martin and Monika , (1951)
  • Knight, Death and the Devil , (1954)
  • Collected Poems , (1956)
  • The town in the mirror , (1956)
  • Where the forest clears , (1960)
  • Youth in the Wine Country , (1962)
  • The town in the mirror , (1963)
  • Morning light, dream and day , (1965)
  • Nature, the revealed secret , (1965)

Awards

literature

  • Margarete Weinhandl: And your forests rustle away . Childhood in Lower Styria, Leykam-Verlag, Graz, 1942. Autobiography. The time in Cilli before moving to Marburg.
  • Margarete Weinhandl: Youth in the wine country . Verlag des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerkes, Munich, 1962. Autobiography. The time in Marburg before moving to Graz.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Tilitzki : The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich , Volume 1. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, pp. 626f., FN. 170.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-w.html
  4. ↑ Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: “ 'Zero hour' for Styrian authors? Literary Reconstruction in Graz 1945/46 ", in: Graz 1945. Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz 25 (1994), p. 421f (in PDF p. 1f .; 292 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Weinhandl, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glantschnigg, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German writer, storyteller, poet and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Cilli
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1975
Place of death Graz