Maria Müller-Gögler

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Maria Müller-Gögler (born May 28, 1900 in Leutkirch im Allgäu , † September 23, 1987 in Weingarten ) was a German writer and teacher.

Life

Maria Müller-Gögler grew up in Weingarten in Württemberg and attended schools in Ravensburg , Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ulm . So she completed an education as a primary school teacher and initially worked in this profession for a few years in Steinhausen and Munderkingen before studying German , philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Munich and Tübingen from 1924 to 1929 . In Tübingen she received her doctorate in 1930 on The Pedagogical Views of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (published by Vieweg in Leipzig, 1931). After her studies she worked as a teacher at a grammar school in Ulm .

In 1935, her first novel, Die Magd Juditha , was published in the 1920s , which, against the background of the building of the baroque Weingarten monastery church, describes the fate of the young girl Juditha, who - seduced by a master builder - by the painter Cosmas Damian Asam and the organ builder Joseph Gabler is protected and eventually becomes Gabler's wife.

In 1942 a novel followed about the king's daughter Beatrix of Swabia, who was married to the Guelph Emperor Otto IV as a child . The marriage cannot put an end to the enmity between the Staufers and Welfen, and Beatrix dies only weeks after the wedding.

During the Second World War , she initially turned away from the historical novel . This is how she described the love between a French prisoner of war and a young German teacher in the novel The Secret Peace , which of course could not appear at the time of its creation and was only published in 1955. In 1948, her first book after the war was published, a biography of the Ravensburger Karl Erb, known throughout Europe as an opera and oratorio singer . From this time on, Müller-Gögler worked as a teacher at primary schools in Weingarten and Waldburg .

Other novels and stories , some of which were based in their Swabian homeland, followed, including the novel Täubchen, ihr Täubchen ... about the unhappy love of a teacher for a student and the story Die Brautgasse about the air raid on Ulm. In 1969, Die Truchsessin was published again, a historical novel about the life of the wife of the " Bauernjörgs " (the Truchsessen von Waldburg ) at the time of the Peasants' War .

In addition to novels, she published numerous short stories and poems and, from 1970 to 1977, her memoirs in three parts. Like the memories, the rest of her older work is increasingly characterized by fine irony and serenity. In the novel Der Pavillon , she describes seven residents of an old people's home - all born in 1900 like the author - and their fates. Her novels Athalie (which mixes two fictional diaries) and Hanna und das Höhere (which consists of conversations with the title character, an ambitious foundling) are also formally original . Her last novel, Seven Swords , which she completed in hospital at the age of 87, spans three generations of a family history.

Maria Müller-Gögler died in Weingarten in 1987 and found her final resting place in the old cemetery there.

Maria Müller-Gögler was the mother of a son and a daughter. The daughter Gisela Linder edited her mother's texts, wrote about her work and also wrote the entry in the New German Biography .

Awards and honors

Works (in selection)

  • The maid Juditha , Roman, Friedrichshafen 1935
  • Doris and Herma . Novel. 1937
  • Beatrix von Schwaben , Roman, Cologne 1942
  • Poems , Ulm 1947 (new version 1954)
  • Karl Erb. The life of a singer , biography, Offenburg 1948
  • The Brautgasse . Narrative. 1948
  • The flight of Lessandra Fedéle , stories, Cologne / Krefeld 1949
  • Rode into the day . Stories from Upper Swabia. 1950
  • The secret peace , Roman, Tübingen 1955
  • The key , novella, Gütersloh 1956
  • Songs and chants , Ulm 1960
  • Little doves, their little doves , Roman, Karlsruhe 1963
  • Who gives me wings , Roman, Rottenburg 1965
  • Die Truchsessin , Roman, Waldburg 1969
  • Before the storms came , memories, Ulm 1970
  • Story of a childhood before 1 World War . 1970
  • The woman at the fence . Stories. 1970
  • Behind blind windows , memories, Ulm 1973
  • The poor lady , memories, Ulm 1977
  • The key , short stories and short stories, Stuttgart 1979
  • Poems . 1980
  • The pavilion , Roman, Sigmaringen 1980
  • Athalie , Roman, Sigmaringen 1983
  • Hanna and the higher , Roman, Thorbecke 1984
  • Seven Swords , Roman, Sigmaringen 1987
  • End of the war '45 , from the diary, Ravensburg 1995

Work edition

  • Work edition in 9 volumes , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1980 (contains the works published up to 1980 and the first edition of the novel "Der Pavillon")

Anthologies

  • To sing against time. A reading book , ed. v. Gisela Linder u. Winfried Wild, Sigmaringen 1990
  • Christmas time in Upper Swabia , poems and stories, ed. v. Gisela Linder, Friedrichshafen 1999

literature

  • Maria Müller-Gögler. The author and her work. Voices of friends . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1980, ISBN 3-7995-1610-7 .
  • Maria Müller-Gögler , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 48/1987 of November 16, 1987, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Gisela Linder:  Müller-Gögler, Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 496 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin Walser: Maria Müller-Gögler. An obituary. In: all ends. 7. J. No. 18/19 (1987), pp. 246-247.
  • Hans-Georg Wehling : Maria Müller-Gögler (1900-1987). Women’s novels from Upper Swabia . In: Birgit Knorr (Ed.): Women in the German Southwest . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1993, pp. 105-110. ISBN 3-17-012089-1 .
  • Hans-Georg Wehling: Müller-Gögler, Maria , in: Baden-Württembergische Biographien . Volume 1. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-17-012207-9 , pp. 247-248. ( Online version ).
  • Winfried Wild: The work of the writer Maria Müller-Gögler. Country and people of Upper Swabia . In: Im Oberland, 8th year 1997, no. 1; Pp. 18-24.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Gögler, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutkirch in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1987
Place of death Weingarten (Württemberg)