Ida Friederike Görres
Ida Friederike Gorres ( born December 2, 1901 Castle Ronsperg / Bohemia, † May 15, 1971 Frankfurt am Main ) was a writer.
Family and CV
Ida Friederike Gorres (birth name: Elisabeth Friederike Countess Coudenhove- Kalergi ) was the sixth child of k and k diplomats Heinrich Graf von Coudenhove- Kalergi and his Japanese wife Mitsu Aoyama. She is a sister of the Pan-European Union Richard Nikolaus Graf founder of Coudenhove- Kalergi.
Gorres was 18 months novice in the " English Ladies ", then it belonged to the leadership circle of the Quick Born- Working Group ( established in 1909 ). She graduated from the Social Women's School in Freiburg, Germany and studied history and church history. In 1928 she went as a youth secretary for girls pastoral care to Dresden, where he worked at the Catholic education work. Since 1935, she was married to the engineer Carl -Josef Gorres in Leipzig. My brother in law was the psychologist and Professor Albert Gorres.
Gorres was active as a writer and is important for the development of hagiography.
Gorres lived in the subsequent period in Degerloch and Freiburg. She participated in the Würzburg Synod and died after a synod meeting in Frankfurt am Main. The Requiem was held at the Freiburg Münster, the memorial speech was Joseph Ratzinger.
Literary work
Works
- Talks about the sanctity. A dialog to Elizabeth of Hungary (1931 )
- On the Burden of God ( 1932)
- The Great Game of Mary Ward ( 1932)
- Germanic Holiness (1934, about Radegundis and Henry of Suso )
- From the Two Towers (1934 )
- The seven-time flight of the Radegundis (1937 )
- The crystal (1939 )
- Another's burdens (1940, defended the charity against the usurpations of the state welfare of the Nazi regime )
- Johanna (1943 )
- The Hidden Face (1944, Therese of Lisieux )
- From Homelessness (1945 )
- Letter on the Church (1946 )
- From marriage and loneliness (1949 )
- The Hidden Treasure (1949, poetry )
- The bride of Alexis (1949, Girls Book)
- Nocturnes (1949, Diary 1937-1947 )
- The incarnate Church (1950 )
- From the world of Saints ( 1955)
- Lay Thoughts on celibacy (1962 )
- Hedwig of Silesia ( 1967)
- The Sacrificed. Published Another look at John Henry Newman (1949 ) posthumously