Margaretha Schwab-Plüss

Margaretha Schwab-Plüss (also: Margarethe Schwab-Plüss , Margrit Schwab-Plüss ; * August 22, 1881 as Margaretha Plüss in Mülhausen , Alsace ; † September 11, 1967 in Sissach , Baselland ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Margaretha Schwab-Plüss was the daughter of a Swiss pharmacist . She grew up in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. After graduating as a teacher in Basel , she studied German and art history at the Universities of Basel and Bern . In 1908 she received her doctorate from the University of Bern with a thesis on the writer Heinrich Leuthold . In the same year she married the doctor Theodor Schwab and from then on lived as a freelance writer in Sissach. In addition to her work as a writer, she also worked for the Basler Nachrichten .

Margaretha Schwab-Plüss was the author of novels , short stories , children's books and poems ; she wrote both in High German and in Basel German dialect .

Works

• Leuthold's poetry and its models , Bern 1908 (under the name Margaretha Plüss)
• Luschtigs and Truurigs , Bern 1908 (under the name Margaretha Plüss)
• With the little ones , Liestal 1918
• From a Swiss diary , Zurich 1920
• Youth Land , Bern 1922
• Zum Baselstab , Basel 1923
• Baselbieter-Lüt , Zurich 1925 (together with Elisabeth Thommen and Traugott Meyer )
• Liebi Fründ us Hof und Stall , Basel 1927
• Deheim and Dusse , Liestal 1928
• People without a home , Basel 1933
• The brothers , Basel 1942
• The good deed , Basel 1942
• Ursli, the car madman , Basel 1943
• Hansi, the little shepherd , Stuttgart 1952
• The four sisters from Villata , Basel 1952
• Forgiveness , Bern 1955
• Angelo looks for a job , Stuttgart 1956
• Joggeli , Basel 1956
• Martin's victim , Basel 1956

Web links

• Literature by and about Margaretha Schwab-Plüss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Margaretha Schwab-Plüss in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft