Else Hueck-Dehio (1897–1976) was a German author.

Life

Dehio was born on 30 December 1897Entry in th
baptismal register of Dorpat University
in Dorpat, Livonia in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. Else Dehio was the daughter of a Baltic German doctor, Karl Dehio. She initially qualified as a nurse, but then fled from her Baltic homeland to

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ahead of the

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in 1918. During the rest of her life she lived in Berlin, Lüdenscheid and, from 1955, in Murnau in

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. From 1934 she wrote numerous stories, books for young people and novels, often with topics from her Baltic homeland. Her children's book ''Indian Summer'' (''Indianersommer'') was on the shortlist for German Youth Book Prize in 1966. In 1920 she married the manufacturer and later CDU politician,

Richard Hueck Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

(1893-1968), who was Mayor of Lüdenscheid in 1946. Hueck-Dehio died on 30 June 1976 in Murnau.

Works

* ''Die Frau und die geistige Schöpferkraft.'' Essays. 1933. * ''Die Hochzeit auf Sandnes.'' Roman. Verlag Neue Nation, Berlin 1934, new editions published by

Eher-Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH (''Franz Eher and Successors, LLC'', usually referred to as the Eher-Verlag (''Eher Publishing'')) was the central publishing house of the Nazi Party and one of the largest book and periodical firms during the Third Rei ...

to 1944. * ''Die Schwelle.'' Novelle. 1938. * ''Der Kampf um Torge.'' Roman. Eher, Munich 1938. new editions to 1943. * * * * * * ''Nikolaus-Legende.'' Lucas Cranach, Munich 1960. New edn. 1961. * * ''Indianersommer.'' Salzer, Heilbronn 1965. New edn. 1966. * ''Die goldenen Äpfel.'' Claudius-Verlag, Munich, 1969.

Literature

* * Silke Pasewalck: ''Raumdarstellung und Raumsemantik in Else Hueck-Dehio's novel "Liebe Renata"''. In: Triangulum. Germanistisches Jahrbuch für Estland, Lettland und Litauen, Band 19 (2013), S. 137–152. * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hueckdehio, Else German women writers German-language writers Writers of young adult literature People from Lüdenscheid Baltic nobility Baltic-German people 1897 births 1976 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany