Martha Grill

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Martha Grill , née Petri (born September 16, 1912 in Újsóvé ( German  Neuschowe ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † unknown) was a Yugoslav German scholar and author.

Life

Grill was the daughter of the veterinarian Johann Petri from southern Batschka , who passed on his penchant for writing and art to his daughter. She edited her father's dialect poems in two volumes. In Novi Sad, Zagreb and Ljubljana she attended a German-language elementary and community school and studied German. In Berlin she did her doctorate. phil. In 1939 she published her collective work “Donauschwäbisches Dichterbuch”, with which she became known in the German-speaking settlements of Southeast Europe. From 1954 to 1958 she was editor of the "Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter". She also published a series of essays on the cultural history of the Danube Swabians .

Publications

  • Danube Swabian book of poets. A. Luser, 1939, 376 pages
  • The development of the Southeast Swabian literature from the beginning to the present. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin 1940. 102 pages

literature

  • Southeast German archive, issues 21-25. South-East German Historical Commission, R. Oldenbourg, 1978, p. 203
  • Anni Baier: Those who forgive can laugh again. Anthology of East German women authors of the present. Women's Association for Home and Law in the BdV eV, 1985, p. 307

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