Martha Wölger
Martha Wölger (* 4. August 1920 in what is now the municipality of Mariazell belonging leisure ditch ; † 27. May 1992 in Admont , Hall district) was an Austrian dialect poet.
Life
Her father Pius Goldgruber was a forest worker, her mother Klara looked after the family and ran a small, leased farm. Martha Wölger attended compulsory school in Gußwerk and Mariazell. During the Second World War she was trained as a Red Cross nurse and worked mainly in Berlin. After the end of the war, after an adventurous escape by bike, she returned to Styria, where she worked as a nurse again. In 1948 she married the seriously disabled gardener Otto Wölger, who came from Admont. The marriage had five children.
She began to write when she was still at school. She achieved the greatest impact with the audience with her poems and stories in Upper Styrian dialect. Martha Wölger became known to a wider audience through radio broadcasts and reading evenings. Gradually, the poet also found public recognition:
- In 1959 she received the Styrian Promotion Prize;
- In 1971 she was awarded the Peter Rosegger Literature Prize of the State of Styria.
Martha Wölger presented her real-life impressions of the world around her to the readers in a variety of linguistic images. Serious and profound, but also humorous, she recorded her thoughts in verses and stories. The religious as a basic force in the life and work of Martha Wölger attests to a number of works, above all the cycle about the life of Mary "Our liabe Frau" and "The Styrian Mass", which was set to music by Kurt Muthspiel . For many years the poet lived, first with her husband and after his death alone, in a small wooden house on the Sonnberg in Hall near Admont, with a wonderful view of the Gesäuse Mountains .
Works
- 1955 Dahoam
- 1957 In da Oanschicht
- 1963 Our lady. A life of Mary in Styrian dialect
- 1964 Upper Styrian home calendar
- 1970 Fuchs red skirt. The Styrian Reineke
- 1974 A goldene Bruckn and other dialect poems
- 1975 Styrian mess
- 1978 It’s okay again. Stories from Freingrobn
- 1984 Va my people. Stories from Freingrobn
- 1986 Experiences with animals (together with her friend, the Austrian mountain writer Liselotte Buchenauer )
- 1990 Around Sunnberg
An unpublished poem typescript: The Greater (Grimming)
Web links
- Literature by and about Martha Wölger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Admont parish
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wölger, Martha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian dialect poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freingraben near Mariazell |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1992 |
| Place of death | Hall at Admont |