Marie Diers

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Marie Diers (born June 10, 1867 in Lübz as Marie Binde , † November 4, 1949 in Sachsenhausen ) was a German writer .

Life

The daughter of the Mecklenburg pastor Carl Binde (1833-1923) graduated from the secondary school for girls in Neustrelitz and in 1885 passed the teacher exam in Berlin . In the 1880s she worked as a private tutor at the Ilse mine near Großräschen . In 1892 she married the accountant Hermann Diers. Then she moved with her husband to Berlin, where she worked as a writer from the end of the 19th century. During this time she lived in Berlin-Friedrichshagen . According to a writer's lexicon from 1898, Diers began working as a writer in 1895. At first she started publishing stories in magazines. Diers first appeared in Kürschner's literature calendar in 1902, at that time also as an author of novels. After her husband died in 1905, the single parent with two children only devoted herself to writing. Many of her close to 40 novels are mostly about Mecklenburg, where she was born. In addition, she wrote u. a. also for the Wartburg voices .

In 1918 she joined the German National Party and in 1922 the German National People's Party . In 1930 she became a member of the NSDAP .

In 1924, her literary success enabled her to buy a house in Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg , where she also bought a house for her daughter's family. In 1932 it appeared in Kürschner's literary calendar with over 40 published books. After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists , she and 87 other writers signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . In 1936 the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was established not far from her house . Diers himself never commented on the neighboring concentration camp or what was going on there. After the end of the Second World War, the Sachsenhausen special camp was built on the site of the concentration camp , where her daughter died on May 8, 1946. Her son-in-law died on May 1st while fleeing Berlin. Marie Diers' son was killed in the First World War.

After the end of the Second World War, Marie Diers was expropriated; in the Soviet occupation zone Diers were 'works Frenchmen in the country (1923), Freedom and Bread (1933), Behind us, in Grau'n of nights ... (1933) and Lat di nich ümsmieten (1925) on the list of auszusondernden Literature set , 1953 followed in the German Democratic Republic love the storm (1940).

In 1952, Kürschner's literary calendar recorded her death without giving an exact date. Many older sources adopted the statement 1952 or 1952 (?) As the year of death. One of the most successful women writers of the Weimar Republic was completely forgotten within a few years. In fact, she died in November 1949 and was buried at community expense in a poor grave not far from her home.

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Ernst Klee counted her among the most widely read authors of her time. Diers wrote novels in which upright, hardworking, honest, Christian people were confronted with blows of fate. With the help of their virtues, they were able to deal with fate to be tough on themselves and others, as well as self-sacrifice. Strokes of fate play a special role in Diers' work, which as such are not questioned, but accepted and mastered with work. A motif of anti-feudalism as well as an emotional anti-capitalism pervades the novels. Diers' heroes thus correspond to the German national and conservative self-image after the loss of the First World War. The superficial anti-capitalism and anti-feudalism offered points of contact for the National Socialist ideology.

Her novels were often based on autobiographies. These include her most important and influential books, such as The Seven Worries of Doctor Joost or The Bridge to Olympus , in which the protagonists, after sudden strokes of fate, have to combine work and child-rearing on their own. Another motif is that of the artist, who, as in Die Brücke zum Olympus, is repeatedly prevented from doing art by everyday duties and children - but as soon as the children are away and she has time for art, it becomes flat and meaningless. In her essayistic writings, Diers also repeatedly expresses herself against pure art and says, for example, that women who want to study then turn out to be unsuitable for life.

Works (selection)

  • Who are you? Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1905
  • Fritzchen. The story of a lonely one. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1907
  • The philistine. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1910
  • The story of a wandering love. Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1911
  • Enemy and inheritance. Berlin, Lehmann, 1913
  • You strange soul. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1913
  • The crook. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1914
  • The too good heart. Stuttgart, Engelhorn Nachf., 1915
  • The Gotthelf children. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1916
  • The widow's farm. Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1916
  • The superfluous daughters. Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1918
  • The famous woman. Stuttgart, Engelhorn, 1920
  • The doctor from Bullenberg. Dresden, Max Seyfert, 1921
  • The Lord God Schulze. Hamburg, German library
  • The men of Oevel . Langensalza, Julius Beltz, 1921

Honors

A school in Berlin-Zehlendorf bore her name from 1937 to 1945.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ registry office Sachsenhausen: Death Certificate No. 28/1949.. Various sources incorrectly name November 5, 1949 as the date of her death.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jürgen Israel: Marie Diers - a successful writer in Sachsenhausen . In: Peter Walther (Ed.): The Third Front. Literature in Brandenburg 1930-1950. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-25-2 , p. 45-55 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 114.
  4. ↑ Sachsenhausen death book
  5. ^ Diers family archive
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-d.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-d.html
personal data
SURNAME Diers, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binde, Marie (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1949
Place of death Sachsenhausen