Johanna Wolff
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Johanna Wolff, née Kielich (born 30 January 1858 in Tilsit, died 3 May 1943 in Orselina
, Switzerland) was a popular German writer.
, later in Vienna
. In 1897 she married Otto Gustav Wolff in Hamburg.
With Agnes Miegel
she was an important figure of East Prussian women's literature. She was influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche
, Detlev von Liliencron
and Richard Dehmel
. Johanna Wolff's first published work was Namenlos - Frauenlieder in 1896 during her time in Vienna. Her most successful work was the autobiographical novel Hanneken: Ein Buch der Armut und Arbeit (1912). Until 1939 she published numerous poetry books, plays and novels.
In 1930 Johanna Wolff received the honorary citizenship of Tilsit and in 1943 the Meerwischer Elementary School in Tilsit was named after her and still honors Johanna Wolff today.
Orselina
Orselina is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-History:Orselina is first mentioned in 1182 as Concilio Meziano. In 1323 it was mentioned as Orsarina...
, Switzerland) was a popular German writer.
Life
Johanna Wolff, the daughter of Adolf Kielich and Caroline, née Lukoschewitz was orphaned at the age of seven. With the support of Father Urbschat, a preacher of the Mucher movement, she received a formal training as a nursery nurse. She worked from 1877 as a deaconess and from 1887 as a Red Cross Sister in HamburgHamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, later in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
. In 1897 she married Otto Gustav Wolff in Hamburg.
With Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel was a German author, journalist, and poet. She received the Kleist Prize for lyric in 1913, the Herder Prize in 1936, the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt in 1940, the literature prize of the Bavarian Academy of Art in 1959 and the...
she was an important figure of East Prussian women's literature. She was influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
, Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron
Baron Detlev von Liliencron born Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev Liliencron was a German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel, the son of Louis Freiherr von Liliencron and Adeline von Harten....
and Richard Dehmel
Richard Dehmel
Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel was a German poet and writer.- Life :...
. Johanna Wolff's first published work was Namenlos - Frauenlieder in 1896 during her time in Vienna. Her most successful work was the autobiographical novel Hanneken: Ein Buch der Armut und Arbeit (1912). Until 1939 she published numerous poetry books, plays and novels.
In 1930 Johanna Wolff received the honorary citizenship of Tilsit and in 1943 the Meerwischer Elementary School in Tilsit was named after her and still honors Johanna Wolff today.
Works
- 1896 Namenlos - Frauenlieder (Verlag der Wiener Mode, Vienna)
- 1899 Ahasver (102 pages, Verlag des Dramaturgischen Instituts Abteilung III (E. Ebering), Co-Author: O. Gustav Wolff
- 1907 Du schönes Leben: Dichtungen (Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin, 144 p.)
- 1912 Die Meisterin: Schauspiel in vier Akten (Schuster & Loessler, Berlin, 78 p.)
- 1912 Das Hanneken: Ein Buch von Arbeit und Aufstieg (Rütten & Löning, Frankfurt a.M.)
- 1917 Von Mensch zu Mensch: Gedichte (Rütten & Löning, Frankfurt a.M.)
- 1918 Du schönes Leben: Gedichte (Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin)
- 1918 Schwiegermütter: Kleine Geschichten (J. G. Cotta Nachf., Stuttgart)
- 1919 Die Töchter Sauls ((J. G. Cotta Nachf., Stuttgart, 150 p.)
- 1920 Die Totengräberin (deutsche Dichter-Gedächnis-Stiftung, Hamburg Großborstel)
- 1921 Hans Peter Kromm der Lebendige: Eine Geschichte von Ufer zu Ufer (Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin)
- 1922 Drei Märchen von Ernst Moritz Arndt - 3 Holzschnitte von Johanna Wolff (F.L. Habbel, * Regensburg)
- 1924 Ganz verwaist ( Julius Beltz, Langensalza)
- 1926 Der liebe Gott auf Urlaub: Zeitlose Legenden (Georg Müller, München, 236 p.)
- 1929 Sonnenvögel (H. Schaffstein, Köln a. Rh.)
- 1929 Grüne Märchen H. Schaffstein, Köln a. Rh.)
- 1930 Frauen zwischen gestern und heute: Lebensstücke (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 359 p)
- 1930 Ruhe ein wenig (Julius Beltz, Langensalza)
- 1930 Die Grabe-Dore (H. Eichblatt, Leipzig)
- 1930 Notturno (in Literarische Beilage Nr. 10 der Ostdeutschen Monatshefte. (G. Stilke, Danzig)
- 1931 Lebendige Spur: Gedichte (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart)
- 1931 Die Totengräberin (Hillger, Berlin)
- 1932 Die Beichte (Heyer, Berlin)
- 1932 Mutter Trapp (H. Eichblatt, Leipzig)
- 1933 Andres Verlaten (H. Wollermann, Braunschweig, 287 p.)
- 1935 Hannekens Große Fahrt (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg, 356 p.)
- 1935 Wir bleiben jung - eine heitere Hanseatengeschichte (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg)
- 1936 Das Wunderbare: Eine Geschichte von Seelen und Geigen (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg)
- 1937 Ein bißchen Freude (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg)
- 1937 Der Fischpastor: Aus dem Merkbüchlein des Pfarrers Ulrich Drossel (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg)
- 1938 Vogelreuthers Mühle (Steuben Verlag P.G. Esser, Berlin, 214 p.)
- 1939 Wanderer wir: Ausgewählte Gedichte (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg, 143 p.)
- 1940 Mutter auf Erden (Gräfe und Unzer, Königsberg)
External links
- Entries for Johanna Wolff on WorldCatWorldCatWorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative...
- Literary estate (part): Foundation 'Archives of the German women's movement', Kassel
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