Sophie Hoechstetter

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Sophie Hoechstetter
Grave of Sophie Hoechstetter in the Pappenheim cemetery

Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter (born August 15, 1873 in Pappenheim , † April 4, 1943 in the Moosschwaige near Dachau ) was a German writer , poet and painter . Together with Karl Stöber, she is one of the two great writers in Pappenheim.

Life

Sophie Hoechstetter was born on August 15, 1873 as the youngest of six daughters of the pharmacist Heinrich Hoechstetter and his wife Friederike, nee. Nettinger, from Unternzenn , was born in today's Hoechstetterapotheke at Deisinger Strasse 26 in Pappenheim. The family came from an old noble family. Hoechstetter described her youth as carefree. Even then she admired George Gordon Byron and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 1896 she published her first work with Goethe as an educator . She lived in one of the castles in Dornburg / Saale ; she had an apartment in Berlin . In 1933 she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown Pappenheim. Hoechstetter spent her twilight years in the Große Moosschwaige of the artist couple Carl Olof and Elly Petersen near Dachau.

In an obituary for the 30th anniversary of her death, her friend Carola von Crailsheim wrote : “No author has described Franconia as beautifully, so empathetically, so impressively as Sophie Hoechstetter”. In her hometown of Pappenheim, a street commemorates the author of numerous novels.

Works (selection)

  • Passion. S. Fischer, Berlin 1911.
  • The heart. Arabesques about the existence of Georg Rosenkreutz. C. Reissner, Dresden / Leipzig, 1913.
  • The freedom. A. Scherl, Berlin 1917.
  • My friend Rosenkreutz. Franconian novellas. Einhorn-Verlag, Dachau 1917. Digitized version (PDF, 16.34 MB)
  • Frau Hüttenrauch's widowhood. A. Scherl, Berlin 1921.
  • Headlights. Novel from the Berlin revolutionary winter. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1922.
  • The child of Europe. The story of Kaspar Hauser. FL Schrag, Nuremberg 1925.
  • Queen Luise. Historical novel. R. Bong, Berlin 1926.
  • Royal children. KF Koehler, Leipzig 1928.
  • The strange inheritance. People's Association of Book Friends. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia. A novel from before 1806. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1930.
  • Caroline and Lotte. Novel about Friedrich Schiller. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1937.
  • In the thaw. Novel from Bayreuth around 1813. O. Beyer, Leipzig 1941.

literature

  • Hugo Marcus: Sophie Hoechstetter . In: Reclams Universum 42.1 (1926), pp. 253-254.

Web links

Wikisource: Sophie Hoechstetter  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pharmacy
  2. ↑ a b c Sophie Hoechstetter (PDF; 158 kB) in the Alemannia Judaica
  3. ↑ Hartmut Schötz: Sophie Hoechstetter - poet and painter - * August 15, 1873. In: Frankenland. 55.2003, OCLC 634105784 , p. 286.
  4. ^ Sophie-Hoechstetter-Weg
personal data
SURNAME Hoechstetter, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoechstetter, Sofie; Hochstetter, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Pappenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1943
Place of death Dachau