Pauline King

Pauline König (born May 3, 1868 in Wolfstein ; † September 13, 1938 there ) was a local poet and writer from the Palatinate .

Live and act

Pauline König was the youngest daughter of the Wolfstein master dyer Heinrich König and his wife Juliana nee Theobalt.

The girl lost her mother at the age of 5 and was therefore called in to help with the household at an early age. A fall that was medically improperly treated resulted in a physical handicap, which is why Pauline König always had to walk on crutches or use a wheelchair. In her free time she therefore concentrated on intellectual activity, read a lot and discovered a love for her own writing.

At the age of 13 she sent a Christmas story to the school magazine of the Bavarian Teachers' Association Jugendlust , which was printed there. From then on, the woman from the Palatinate regularly wrote children's stories and tales, which she sold to various publishers. The Association for the Dissemination of Good Popular Writings in Berlin awarded a story with first prize. Pauline König mainly wrote stories from the West Palatinate as well as folk stories with a moral and religious basic pattern.

She died in Wolfstein in 1938 and was buried in the local cemetery.

Honors

Honorary citizen of her hometown Wolfstein
Memorial stone in Wolfstein

Works (selection)

Pauline König, book cover

Erika Frey (a young girl novel), 1920,
Of Peaceful People (a Western novel), 1920
Hannetraudelchen ( short story volume ), 1921

Die Tat (short story volume), 1922

On the Kinderwiese (children's stories), 1924

To luck and home (short book), 1926

The Saufehde ( short story volume ), 1931

Roses bloom every way

literature

Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. 2nd edition, Hennig Verlag Edenkoben 1998, pages 378 and 379
Wolfstein Tourist Office: Pauline König. 1998
Wolfstein, small town in the King's Land. 1975, text excerpts
Marliese Fuhrmann: Anna and others - women's paths in the Palatinate. Görres Verlag 2007, text excerpts

Web links

Literature by and about Pauline König in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	King, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfstein
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1938
Place of death	Wolfstein

[1] To the magazine Jugendlust

[2] Source of the "Association for the Dissemination of Good, Popular Writings"