Johanna Wolff
Johanna Wolff born Kielich ( born January 30, 1858 in Tilsit, East Prussia, † May 3, 1943 in Orselina, Ticino ) was a German writer.
Life
Johanna Kielich was the daughter of a shoemaker and grew up as an orphan. She joined in 1877 in the service and deaconesses from 1887 was a Red Cross nurse in Hamburg. 1897 she married Otto Gustav Wolff.
Johanna Wolff was next to Agnes Miegel the most important representative of the East Prussian woman seal. She was influenced in her works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Detlev von Liliencron and Richard Dehmel. Wolff's first release was 1896 Nameless - women's songs. Her biggest success came with Johanna Wolff 's autobiography Hanneken: A Book of poverty and paper from the year 1913 and later as a reprint in Hanneken: renamed A book of work and career, with a circulation of 55,000.
Johanna Wolff 1930 was made an honorary citizen of the city of Tilsit. The honorary citizenship was stripped of her 1933. The former sea wiper elementary school in Tilsit was renamed in 1943 in Johanna Wolff school.
Her grave is in the cemetery of Mergoscia. At the cemetery wall a plaque for Hanneken is attached. Her husband died a few days after her. On her grave board he had the inscription
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Discount
- A binder with over 100 letters to and from Johanna Wolff is located in the estate of Hans Franck, who is kept in the National Library of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in Schwerin.
- Foundation archives of the German women's movement at the University of Kassel