Margarethe Hahn-Boing

Margarethe Hahn-Böing , pseudonyms: Margarethe Hahn von der Oste and Margarete von der Oste (born January 17, 1877 in Uerdingen , † July 1, 1956 in Hamburg-Eppendorf ) was a German author.

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Hahn-Böing was born as the daughter of the physician Heinrich Wilhelm Böing and Hermine, b. Krick was born in Uerdingen and spent her childhood here at Am Rheintor 4. The impressions of this childhood are repeatedly expressed in the artist's later literary work.

Margarethes musical talent showed early on, which was encouraged by music lessons in Uerdingen and later in Düsseldorf. At the age of 15 she moved to Berlin alone and became a student of the pianist and composer Karl Klindworth . At 17 she was already giving concerts. Shortly afterwards, the parents and Margarethe moved to Seehof near Berlin.

Because of her relationship with Diederich Hahn , 17 years her senior , she ended her career as a pianist abruptly. They married on August 7, 1897 and moved to his homeland on the Hanevorth estate in Lamstedter Heide . The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters. In 1914 her husband went to war as a volunteer. She had been writing for some time. Her first book Lotte von Brobergen was published in 1913 , the story of a love in letters from the Werther period. Her second book, the novel Fighters , was published in 1915.

Her husband died on February 24, 1918 after a brief illness. He left an incompletely built estate to his wife and five children. Years of hardship and struggle for daily survival for her and her family followed. In 1919 she had to sell the Hanevorth estate and lived in considerable poverty.

Only in the 1930s did the situation slowly improve and Hahn-Böing started writing again. Under her stage name Margarethe von der Oste the books You my Show Jumper (1930), One Goes Past Luck So Often (1935), It's About Birkenworth (1936), Your Father. Letters to my daughter (1936) and The four from the Wolkenkukucksheim (1937).

Fourteen book titles by her are known, published between 1913 and 1952. Although the influences of National Socialist ideology can be seen in some of them, they experienced high circulation in the 1950s. Ursula Theen, a story about the Lower Rhine, was particularly popular as books for young people . The book was first published in 1940 and was reprinted in 1941, 1948, 1952 and 1970; more than 100,000 copies appeared in total. The stories Ursula Theen and Liebe kleine Ursula (1952) take place in Uerdingen, where she was born. Even in 1955 Hahn-Böing translated at the age of 77 years under the name Cock of the Oste The Madman by Khalil Gibran and Arabic fables for German newspapers.

Margarethe Hahn died on July 1, 1956 in the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf .

literature

• Gisela Marzin: The writer Margarete Hahn-Böing. A biographical afterword. Website of the Alcorde publishing house.

Web links

• Literature by and about Margarethe Hahn-Böing in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Gut Haneworth's website , accessed April 3, 2014.