Margarete Windthorst

Margaret (h) e (Grete) Maria Erwine Eugenie Windthorst (born November 3, 1884 in Hesseln / Westphalia ; † December 9, 1958 , daughter of Friedrich August Christian Wind (t) horst and Eugenie Louise Wilhelmine (Hül (l) brock , in Strang near Bad Rothenfelde / Landkreis Osnabrück ) was a German writer who was related to Ludwig Windthorst, Bismarck's parliamentary opponent in the Kulturkampf.

Life

Margarete Windthorst came from a family of landowners . She grew up with her sisters on their parents' estate and was tutored by a tutor . She broke off the subsequent visit to an ursuline school in Osnabrück early. During one semester she attended lectures as a guest student at the University of Münster , but this time too she soon returned to the estate in Hesseln . Apart from short trips to southern Germany and Bremen , she spent the rest of her life in the self-chosen seclusion of the estate , which she managed as heiress after the death of her mother in 1921 and sister Maria in 1924.

After Margarete Windthorst had already started writing as a teenager, she published an extensive literary work from 1911. She was in contact with a number of personalities in Westphalian literary life. During the Third Reich , as a decidedly Catholic author , she was attacked by official literary criticism; her two novels "Mit Leib und Leben" and "Zu Erb und Eigen" could only appear after 1945. After handing over the management of her property to a relative, Margarete Windthorst devoted herself exclusively to literature in the last years of her life.

Windthorst wrote novels , short stories , poems and plays . Her work is strongly influenced by her Westphalian homeland and her Catholic religiousness , later also by the influence of the mystical writings that the painter and author Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken published under the name "Bo Yin Ra".

Margarete Windthorst was awarded the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize in 1946.

Works

• Poems , Leipzig [a. a.] 1911
• Kinderland , Münster 1912
• The soul of the year , M. Gladbach 1919
• The year on God's morning , Augsburg 1921
• Dwarf Music , Bad Pyrmont [u. a.] 1921
• The Tau string player , Berlin 1922
• When the gardener comes , M. Gladbach 1922
• The basilisk , Berlin 1924
• The Annunciation , M. Gladbach 1924
• The night of knowledge , M. Gladbach 1925
• Höhenwind , M. Gladbach 1926
• The Sun Seer , M. Gladbach 1928
• Margarete Windthorst , M. Gladbach 1929
• Three gardens , Warendorf i. Westf. 1930
• The Green Kingdom , Warendorf iW 1930
• Solomons directive , Warendorf i. Westf. 1930
• The solstice night , Warendorf i. Westf. 1930
• And brought a little flower , Munich 1932
• The seven at Sandbach , Berlin 1937
• The messengers of light , Berlin 1938
• With pleasure and burden , Berlin 1940
• Mar and Myth , Berlin 1943
• The chosen country , Kempen-Niederrhein 1947
• Farm daughters , Kempen-Niederrh. 1947
• People and powers , Kempen-Niederrh. 1948
• With body and life , Kempen-Niederrh. 1949
• To Erb und Eigen , Kempen-Niederrh. 1949
• The living heart , Hamm 1952
• Wheat grains , Bielefeld 1954
• Memories of people and personalities in Halle and the surrounding area , Halle in Westf. 1956
• Die Heide , Münster Westf. 1959
• Earth that carries us , Emsdetten (Westphalia) 1964
• The Krähenbusch , Emsdetten 1970
• Paths and walks , Dortmund 1975
• But that everything will continue then , Dortmund 1978
• Earth and people , Emsdetten 1988

literature

• Inge Meidinger-Geise : Margarete Windthorst and Westphalia , Emsdetten (Westphalia) 1960
• Inge Meidinger-Geise : Meeting Margarete Windthorst today , Dortmund 1978
• Margarete Windthorst estate , Dortmund 1978

Web links

• Margarete Windthorst in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Literature by and about Margarete Windthorst in the catalog of the German National Library