Margret Hell

Margret Hell, 2004

Margret Hölle at a reading in the Lyrik Kabinett January 2015

Margret Hölle (born April 2, 1927 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ) is a German poet and narrator .

Life

Margret Hölle was born as Margarete Strüßl in Neumarkt. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, she worked as an actress in a touring theater, later as a speaker for the Bavarian radio . In 1949 she married the painter and graphic artist Erich Hölle (1925–1993). With her poems, which have been published in magazines and anthologies since 1956, she introduced the dialect of the Upper Palatinate Jura into Bavarian literature. She has also read many of her texts on radio and television. She was appointed to the Munich tower scribe in 2004.

Margret Hölle lives in Munich. In her hometown of Neumarkt, she was committed to founding the Lothar Fischer Museum, which opened in 2004 .

Works

Books

• A little wos is aa vüi . Mainburg (Pinsker) 1976
• Iwa Jauha and Dooch . Feldafing (Friedel Brehm) 1981
• On the way . Poems. Otterfing (private print) 1988
• Root heart . Poems. Regensburg (MZ-Buchverlag) 1991th - 2nd edition 1996
• Blooms a thorn bush . Poems. Viechtach (Edition Lichtung) 1997. Epilogue: Reinhard Wittmann. ISBN 3-929517-20-5 .
• Thistle seeds . Poems. Viechtach (Lichtung edition) 1999, ISBN 3-929517-33-7 .
• Time aaffanga . Poems and stories. Viechtach (Lichtung edition) 2005, ISBN 3-929517-66-3 .

Audio book

• Upper Palatinate Psalm . Poems. Production: Edition Lichtung / Bayerischer Rundfunk 2002, ISBN 3-929517-42-6 .

Awards

After the award of the Nordgau Prize by the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association in Furth im Wald: from left: poet Margret Hölle, Bay. Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber , painter Ruthild Langhammer and Bernhard M. Baron

• 1990 Culture Prize of the City of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
• 1996 Friedrich Baur Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1998 Nordgaupreis of the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association
• 2003 Bavarian poet thaler
• 2004 Culture Prize of the Upper Palatinate District in the category of dialect literature
• 2009 Literature Prize of the Upper Palatinate Jura (laudation: Harald Grill )
• 2012 Bavarian Order of Merit

Settings

• Kilza Setti (* 1932): Singing Landscapes . Seven songs for baritone and piano (2000). Texts made from thistle seeds
• Jens Joneleit (* 1968): fawn gray . Three songs for female voice, bass flute / alto flute / flute and piano (2002). Texts from Blöiht a Dornbusch

Web links

Commons : Margret Hölle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Margret Hölle in the catalog of the German National Library
• JK:  Hell, Margret . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
• Margret Hölle in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )