Dagmar von Mutius
Dagmar von Mutius ( born October 17, 1919 in Oslo, † November 5, 2008 in Heidelberg) was a German writer.
Life
Dagmar von Mutius came from the noble family von Mutius. Her parents were the diplomat Gerhard von Mutius and Marie, nee von Bethmann Hollweg. Because the profession of her father Dagmar von Mutius spent her childhood and youth abroad. She lived in Oslo, Copenhagen, Bucharest, and later in Berlin as well as on the family estate in Gellenau in the County of Glatz, the importance of management took over during the Second World War and they had to leave in 1946 after expropriation and forced labor.
Since she met the flight and expulsion from his own experience, play these subjects they treated without blame and without complaint, in their works a prominent role. The grief over the loss of the family property and the home is supported by the desire for reconciliation and the desire for a peaceful future. For the autobiographical work " lightning ", in which she describes the fate of some remaining in the Silesian homeland Germans, they got 1963 Eichendorff Prize for Literature.
Awards
Works
- Lightning. Chronicle of a Silesian Province 1945 /46. Publisher Cambridge University Press, Göttingen, 1961 ( 3rd edition: Berstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Würzburg 1988, ISBN 3-87057-111- X)
- Border routes. Publisher Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1963
- Change the game. Publisher Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1966
- Hiding place without stop. Publisher Werner Jerratsch, Heidenheim / Brenz 1975
- Invitation in an old house. Publisher Werner Jerratsch, Heidenheim / Brenz 1980, ISBN 3-921519-40-3
- Outside, the night wind. Mountain town Publisher grain, Würzburg, 1985, ISBN 3-87057-105-5
- Lessons of silence. Mountain town Publisher grain, Würzburg 1989
- Visit on the edge of the days. Mountain town Publisher grain, Würzburg 1994
- Eleonore Haugwitz ( alias): 1945/46, on a farm in the county of Glatz. In: My home Silesia. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg, 1990, ISBN 3-7844-1910-0