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Thusnelda Kühl (born August 14, 1872 in Kollmar , † July 24, 1935 in Rendsburg , buried in Nortorf ; civilized after her marriage Thusnelda Petersen ) was a German writer.

Life

Thusnelda Kühl was born as the daughter of the liberal and socially committed pastor Carsten Kühl and his wife Wilhelmine, née von Oldenburg. Her mother also worked as a writer.

Thusnelda Kühl's life was long characterized by numerous changes of location. Thusnelda Kühl lived in Oldenswort in Eiderstedt for the first time from autumn 1876 . In 1886 she moved to Lübeck to a girls 'boarding school, then to Flensburg to attend a girls' school. In 1888 she returned to Oldenswort and was confirmed . In the following year she began a teacher training in Augustenburg on Alsen . She found the atmosphere there oppressive. For a short time she became a teacher in Flensburg and then an educator in Quern . In 1894 she passed the examination for teaching at middle and higher girls 'schools and worked at a girls' school in Bad Lauterberg am Harz until 1895 . She later called this time the "Overture to Life". In 1895 she became head of the teaching institute in Friedrichstadt , where she met her future husband. The following year she became a teacher in Oldenswort. In the years up to 1900 she was, among other things, an educator on an estate in the Altmark . In Braunschweig she met Wilhelm Raabe . She also worked as a private tutor in England and Copenhagen . In 1903 she left school to devote herself to writing. She moved to Meldorf and in 1905 with her parents to Neumünster . In the same year she married Julius Petersen, who was rector in Nortorf , where they lived from then on. A daughter and a son were born in 1907 and 1913. In 1923 her husband died after a long illness and in 1932 their daughter died at the age of 25.

Thusnelda Kühl died in 1935 as a result of an operation in Rendsburg.

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Around 1900 she was one of the few women who began to write, mostly novels. She became known with the novel The Lehnsmann von Brösum. Her novel The People of Effkebüll portrays the people in Oldenswort at the turn of the century. These two novels and the novel Um Ellwurth are set in Eiderstedt. The biography Harro Harring, the Frisian describes the life of the revolutionary Harro Harring . She published numerous shorter works in newspapers and also wrote articles on political topics. Thusnelda Kühl became known as the “poet of the marshes ”. She referred to Theodor Storm and Wilhelm Raabe as her literary role models .

In 1924 and 1995, each six works by Kühl were reissued.

aftermath

In 1992, the Thusnelda-Kühl-Gesellschaft was founded in Oldenswort, which is dedicated to her literary work, but also to the landscape painting of her brother Carsten Kühl. In the same year, memorial stones for Thusnelda Kühl were erected in Oldenswort and Nortorf. Memorabilia from Thusnelda Kühl are on display in the “Oldenswort meeting point”.

Works

  • 1900: On the gray beach, on the gray sea. Roman, published in the second edition as Das Pfarrhaus von Herbersfleth .
  • 1902: The Reidings. Novel.
  • 1903: Rüm Hart - Klar Kimming. Narrative.
  • 1904: The feudal man from Brösum. Novel.
  • 1905: Around Ellwurth. Novel.
  • 1905: The people of Effkebüll. Novel.
  • 1906: Harro Harring, the Frisian. Biography.
  • 1906: the house basically. Stories.
  • 1906: The homeless. Novel.
  • 1907: Margaret Wendt. Novella.
  • 1908: The island doctor. Narrative.
  • 1911: The young Margarete Haller. Novellas.
  • 1912: The daughters of Friedrichsholm. Novel.
  • 1915: Renate Westedt. Novel.

literature

  • Arno Bammé : Thusnelda Kühl - The poet of the marshes. Profil, Munich / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-89019-312-9 .
  • Hauke ​​Koopmann: The march poet Thusnelda Kühl on her 125th birthday. In: North Frisian Association and Heimatbund Landscape Eiderstedt (ed.): Between Eider and Wiedau. Heimatkalender Nordfriesland 1998. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum no year, ISBN 3-88042-839-5 , pp. 196-201.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honor for a critical mind. In: Husumer Nachrichten of June 16, 2011 , accessed November 30, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Curriculum Vitae Kühls ( Memento from 7 December 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Hauke ​​Koopmann: The march poet Thusnelda Kühl on her 125th birthday. In: North Frisian Association and Heimatbund Landscape Eiderstedt (ed.): Between Eider and Wiedau. Heimatkalender Nordfriesland 1998. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum no year, ISBN 3-88042-839-5 , p. 198.
  4. ^ Scattered publications ( Memento of December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Self-biography ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b Website of the Thusnelda-Kühl-Gesellschaft , accessed on December 1, 2012
  7. ^ Eiderstedt tourist website , accessed on December 1, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Cool, Thusnelda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Thusnelda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollmar
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1935
Place of death Rendsburg