Sigelind von Platen

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Sigelind von Platen (* December 1914 in Ludwigslust ; † June 26, 1945 in Perleberg ) was a German writer of religious literature. She was a daughter of the writer Leontine von Winterfeld-Platen and her husband Rittmeister Botho von Platen.

Life

Sigelind von Platen was named after her mother Leontine von Winterfeld-Platen's play Sigelind , which was premiered in February 1914 in the city theater in Bromberg. From 1920 she lived with her family on a country estate in Krüden in the Altmark and attended school in Seehausen (Altmark) . From 1925 they lived in Neu-Pinnow (today part of Karstädt (Prignitz) ); Sigelind von Platen was first taught by a private tutor and later attended secondary school in Heiligengrabe and Schwerin .

For several years she supported her mother in running the business, learned shorthand and typewriter and finally became a secretary and accountant in the Hermann Lietz schools in Bieberstein, Hohenwerda and Gebesee.

In 1938 she published two religious stories under the title Nevertheless - not lived in vain . In 1939 she published her novel Das Lied der Erde , which was printed by Brockhoff in Baden-Baden and was reprinted in 1948 by Fehrholz. In addition, she wrote articles for the Wandsbeker Hefte and the paper Frau und Mutter under the editorship of Frieda Ufer-Held .

The author died in June 1945 in the Perleberg Hospital as a result of being shot at by an American low-flying aircraft in the last weeks of the war in 1945.

Works

  • Still - not lived in vain. Verlagbuchhandlung "Bethel", Hamburg-Wandsbek 1938. (Two stories: 1. (see title), pp. 7–34, 2. Why are you persecuting me?, Pp. 35–63)
  • The song of the earth. Verlag E. Brockhoff, Nachf. Wilhelm Fehrholz, Baden-Baden 1939; New edition: Verlag Fehrholz, Baden-Baden 1948.

literature

  • Leontine von Winterfeld-Platen: Sigelind. Play in 4 acts. Ludwigslust 1913.
  • Leontine von Winterfeld-Platen: A mother's cross - memoirs. Otto Bauer Verlag, Stuttgart 1949, 2nd edition 1952.

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personal data
SURNAME Platen, Sigelind von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer of religious literature
DATE OF BIRTH December 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1945
Place of death Pearl Mountain