Florentine Gebhardt

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Florentine Gebhardt (born April 18, 1865 in Crossen (Oder) , † July 10, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German writer and teacher. She also wrote under the numerous pseudonyms Stefanie Eusebius, Tino Hardt, G. Edhardt, Luise Klotz, F. Lora, A. Rolf and Florus Bardt.

Life

Florentine Gebhardt was the daughter of a trained craftsman and a pastor's daughter. She had an older brother and two younger sisters. From her autobiographical sheets from the life picture book published by the Berlin Galle Verlag in 1930 . From childhood memories , an intimate relationship emerges with her brother, who became a pastor. Her sisters Marie Elisabeth "Lise" and Margarete "Grete" also became teachers, Margarete also a writer. From the age of 14 she had to contribute to the family's income with manual and housework.

In Der Weg zum Lehrstuhl , published in 1933 by the Hamburg agency of the Rauhen Haus , she describes her training as a gymnastics and handicraft teacher in the Lette-Haus in Berlin with an additional qualification as an industrial teacher from 1892. She continued to earn her living with housework and handicrafts , Tutoring and seals in different places. In addition, reports are made of an activity as a secretary at a mail order company of the Brethren in Gnadenfrei .

In 1895 she passed her primary school teacher exam in Berlin and the exam in Frankfurt (Oder) . She got a job as a teacher in the school year 1895/1896 in Hannoversch Münden , where she earned 900  marks a year. In January 1897 she went to the elementary school in Tegel near Berlin, as from the manuscript Der Zwiefache Weg published posthumously by her sister Elisabeth . Memoirs, third part, from Florentine Gebhardt † July 10, 1941 (Berlin, 1942) emerges. In Tegel, too, she had to give private lessons to make a living. In the course of the downsizing of civil servants in 1923/1924, she was put into early retirement.

Florentine Gebhardt was a member of the German Writers' Union in Berlin, a founding member of the Spring Club in 1897 , and from 1904 a member of the German Writers' Union and the Berlin Teachers' Association . Membership in the German People's Party (DVP) at the time of the First World War is also known.

Your written estate is now managed in the Brandenburg State Main Archive in Potsdam . Some publications were also made in cooperation with her youngest sister Margarete.

Works

In addition to children's books, she also published works with nationalist and Nazi content, which is why some of her publications were placed on the list of literature to be segregated from 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone . These include:

  • Luther, the German man and warrior of God , Berlin: Nazi book distribution 1933
  • The celebration of the founding of the Reich on January 18th in the 3rd Reich , Berlin: New Berlin book distribution 1934
  • Flame sign , Leipzig: Payne 1935
  • Mütterehrenfest , Berlin: New Berlin book distribution 1936
  • Schoolmates , Bonn: Heidelmann 1937.

literature

  • Gudrun Wedel : Lessons between work and profession. Insights into the lives of women autobiographers from the 19th century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-205990-41-2 .
  • Gudrun Wedel: Gebhart, Florentine ; in: Autobiographies of Women. a lexicon. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne and Weimar 2010. ISBN 3-412205-85-0 . P. 261
  • Gebhart, Florentine ; in: Jürgen Israel (Hrsg.), Peter Walther (Hrsg.): Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. Volume 1: A Reader. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-68-1 . P.64 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employment of the teacher Florentine Gebhardt (MR 2454) ; in: Finding aid MR of the city of Hann. Münden . P. 457 .
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt, Florentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Cross (or)
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1941
Place of death Berlin