Vilma storm

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Vilma Sturm ( pseudonyms : Anne Detrois , Luise Fels , Katharina , Antoine Stahl , born October 27, 1912 in Mönchengladbach ; † February 17, 1995 in Bonn ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Vilma Sturm grew up in Mönchengladbach and from 1917 in Berlin . After taking her school leaving examination in 1932, she studied Spanish , French and history at the University of Bonn , then switched to law and finally to philosophy . From 1933 to 1934 she studied philosophy and art history in Munich , but then, given the lack of prospects for an academic education in the Third Reich , broke off her studies and attended the higher commercial school in Rheydt . From 1935 she worked as a secretary, bookseller and foreign language correspondent. In 1936 she returned to Berlin, where she wrote journalistic articles a. a. wrote for the " Kölnische Zeitung " and worked on his first narrative works. From 1939 she lived in Mönchengladbach again. From 1942 to 1944 she worked in the troop support of the Wehrmacht , after which she retired to Wagrain in Austria .

In 1946 her daughter Christiane was born, whom she raised alone. From 1946 Vilma Sturm lived in Bullay / Mosel and worked as an editor for " Rheinischer Merkur " in Cologne . In 1949 she moved to the “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”, for which she worked as a freelancer and from 1959 to 1977 as a permanent member of the editorial team.

From 1953 she lived in Königstein / Taunus , from 1954 in Cologne (Merlostrasse). She drew attention to the destruction of the environment at an early stage, wrote and demonstrated against the Vietnam War and campaigned for welfare children, the homeless and those released from prison. In 1968 the Catholic Sturm was one of the founders of the “ Political Night Prayer ” in Cologne, and in the following years she became an important voice in the West German peace movement . Sturm lived in Bonn-Röttgen since 1984 .

In addition to her journalistic work , Vilma Sturm wrote novels , stories , travelogues , poems and radio plays . While her first works, published in the Third Reich, were still marked by a decidedly nationalistic attitude, the author developed in the post-war years into a committed representative of Christian humanism , which was also noticeable in the perspective of her reports and travelogues. In 1981 she and her daughter Christiane published an illustrated book about the Bonn area.

Vilma Sturm had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1971 . In 1968 she received the Rheinische Kulturpreis , in 1986 the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1990 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class.

Works

  • Andrea - from somewhere , Dülmen 1938
  • Girls and soldiers , Dülmen 1940
  • Sabinchen , Dülmen i. Westf. 1940
  • Domestic hymn of praise , Freiburg 1944
  • Camilla and the gardener , Munich [u. a.] 1950
  • Gift of love , Freiburg 1950
  • Out and about on the Rhine, the Moselle and elsewhere , Frankfurt a. M. 1959
  • My dear rivers , Frankfurt a. M. 1962
  • German nature parks in words and pictures , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1964
  • In the green coal pot , Duisburg 1965
  • Stays between Iceland and Istanbul as well as in this country , Frankfurt a. M. 1966
  • North Rhine-Westphalia in color , Frankfurt a. M. 1968
  • Incidentally , Frankfurt (am Main) 1972
  • Bonn town houses , Bonn 1976 (together with Waldemar Haberey)
  • On the outskirts of Bremen, Oberneuland , Bremen 1979 (together with Annemarie Mevissen)
  • Barefoot on asphalt , Cologne 1981
  • ... and around Bonn , Bonn 1981 (together with Christiane Sturm)
  • Hardship with Peace , Stuttgart 1982
  • Old days , Cologne 1986
  • Sick bed , Freiburg im Breisgau [u. a.] 1988
  • Eighty Years of War and Peace , Düsseldorf 1991
  • Grafschaft Bentheim, Land an der Vechte , Nordhorn 1991 (together with Robert Häusser)
  • Gong strikes , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Front - where is that? , Weilerswist 1996

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vilma Sturm: A pious adventurer by Klaus Pokatzky. Time online
  2. ↑ Vilma Sturm: A pious adventurer by Klaus Pokatzky. Time online
  3. ↑ Christiane Sturm. Publications
personal data
SURNAME Storm, Vilma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Detrois, Anne (pseudonym); Fels, Luise (pseudonym); Katharina (pseudonym); Stahl, Antoine (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1995
Place of death Bonn