Marie Muthreich

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Marie Muthreich , married. Marie Barsch (born April 23, 1884 in Leppersdorf near Landeshut in Silesia , † April 21, 1961 in Frankenberg ), was a German poet , narrator and biographer .

Youth and education

Marie Muthreich was born on April 23, 1884 as the daughter of the senior high school teacher Karl Muthreich, who came from Thuringia , and his wife Bertha. Three older siblings had died and Marie grew up with her younger sisters Susanne († 1957) and Bertha, later married Börner. In 1899 Karl Muthreich was appointed to the Friedrichgymnasium in Breslau , where Marie Muthreich first completed an art school and then trained as an educator. At first she was employed at a private girls' school for a year and a half , from 1905 she taught at the municipal elementary school for fifteen years.

Poet and narrator

In the autumn of 1911, Marie Muthreich joined the Breslau school of poets and published the first short stories and poetry in their association's monthly newspaper, as well as in the first volume of the series of Silesian books .

The director of the Breslauer Stadttheater Theodor Löwe arranged a publisher for her first volume of poetry In der Sonne .

In December 1920 Marie Muthreich married the widowed writer Paul Barsch .

Nazi era, World War II and displacement

In the mid-1930s, Marie Muthreich-Barsch began working on a description of his life in letters to Paul Barsch. But neither this nor his successful novel Von Eine, who moved out was allowed to appear after 1933 because of Paul Barsch's sympathy with the Social Democrats . After he was bombed out in January 1944, the former Reichstag President Paul Löbe and his wife found accommodation in the summer house of the Barsch couple in Schieferstein am Zobten , but was arrested there after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 and taken to the Groß- Roses spent.

Even after 1933, Marie Muthreich-Barsch kept in touch with Jewish members of the Breslau poet school who had emigrated and who had stayed in Germany. From summer 1939 to spring 1945 she had an apartment in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. She helped a Jewish family of four from their neighborhood, who had been illegally hiding in an arbor colony in Oranienburg from February 27 to March 1943 , with food and work orders.

Paul Barsch's estate and his valuable collection of autographs with manuscripts by Eichendorff , Freiligrath , and extensive correspondence with Gerhart and Carl Hauptmann , Detlev von Liliencron , Carl Hermann Busse , Karl Bleibtreu and many other authors of naturalism were lost in World War II; With the expulsion of the Germans from Silesia, Marie Muthreich also lost the summer house in Schieferstein with everything that was stored in it.

Last years

After the war, Marie Muthreich first settled in Neuenrade ; later she lived partly with her sister Susanne in Werdohl , where she was employed at the adult education center, and partly with her married sister Bertha Börner in Frankfurt am Main . She cultivated connections with numerous Silesian authors, including the Wangener Kreis , where a Paul Persch plaque was awarded every year.

In 1956 she published the biography of Paul Barsch Freund among friends , about which Paul Löbe , meanwhile President of the German Bundestag, wrote: “It is an atmospheric portrayal of the world in which our Paul Barsch lived and worked ... Here we meet the old, familiar characters , the spiritual and spiritual companions of our hiker, Hauptmann and Hermann Stehr , Philo vom Walde and Max Heinzel , who complement each other harmoniously and stimulate each other. It seems that we are sitting next to them - listening to their conversations - as if they accept the reader into their circle. "

Marie Muthreich died on April 21, 1961 in Frankenberg (Eder).

Works

  • with Paul Keller, Marie Klerlein, Hermann Stehr: stories and poems. Heege, Schweidnitz 1914. ( The Silesian Books. Volume 1.)
  • In the sun. Poems. Minden, Dresden, Leipzig undated [1918].
  • Heart in happiness. Bound lines. Heege, Schweidnitz, Breslau 1929. ( The Silesian Song. Volume 3.)
  • Friend among friends. Written to Paul Barsch. Self-published, Neuenrade 1955. ( Partly digitized , PDF file; 185 kB)

Editorial activity

  • Karl von Holtei: Christian Lammfell. 6th edition. Heege, Schweidnitz, Breslau.

Articles in periodicals

  • The Gemittliche Schläsinger . House calendar for the province of Silesia
  • Kölnische Rundschau
  • Monthly sheets. Organ of the Breslauer Dichterschule (from 1901: The East. Literary monthly of the "Breslauer Dichterschule")
  • The Upper Silesian. Monthly for the local cultural life
  • Paul Keller's monthly newspaper Die Bergstadt
  • Silesia. A quarterly for art, science and folklore
  • We Silesians! Semi-monthly publication for Silesian essence and Silesian poetry
  • The Silesian Books
  • Schlesische Rundschau. The newspaper of all Silesians

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Löbe: Letter to Marie Barsch, November 28, 1955
personal data
SURNAME Muthreich, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perch, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, narrator and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Leppersdorf near Landeshut in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1961
Place of death Frankenberg