Mechthild Sarrazin

Mechthild Sarrazin (born April 3, 1920 in Parchau , Karthaus district as Mechthild von Fischer , † October 14, 2014 in Recklinghausen ) was a German sculptor and painter .

She was born as the daughter of a West Prussian landowner and spent her youth from 1922 to 1945 on her parents' estate in Zandersdorf ( Konitz district ), where she attended Polish elementary school and received private lessons. In 1933 she moved to the Lyceum in Bromberg , in 1934 to the Altenburger Stift (Thuringia), where she stayed until the upper secondary school level . In 1937/38 she attended the Viktoriaschule in Danzig and finally passed the Abitur in 1940 at the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium in Sopot . When the war broke out in 1939, she was engaged as a teacher in Konitz and Zandersdorf.

From 1940 to 1942 she studied zoology, botany and geology in Freiburg / Br. and Innsbruck . When two of her brothers died in the war, she had to break off her studies and help out with her parents' farm. In 1943 she married the doctor and writer Hans-Christian Sarrazin (1914–2013), with whom she had four children. In the final phase of the Second World War , she initially stayed as a refugee with relatives in Gera , where her eldest son Thilo was born. After the end of the war, Recklinghausen became the family's new home.

She spent 20 years as a housewife raising her four children. From 1964 she completed her artistic training and worked as a sculptor and painter. In addition, she taught free sculpture at a Waldorf school. In 1995 the West Prussian State Museum in Münster showed her sculptures and watercolors in an exhibition and in 2004 her sculptures.

Fonts

• Space and borders: sculptures and watercolors. Laumann, Dülmen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89960-218-0 .

literature

• West Prussia yearbook. Vol. 1-52 (1950-2002).
• Jutta Reissinger-Weber: Mechthild Sarrazin: sculptures and watercolors. West Prussian State Museum (publisher): from February 4 to May 14, 1995. Münster 1995.