Life
Hölle was born in 1927 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. left, After an award: (L to R) Margret Hölle, Bavarian minister President Edmund Stoiber, Malerin Ruthild Langhammer and Bernhard M. Baron">Ruthild_Langhammer.html" ;"title="Edmund Stoiber, Malerin Ruthild Langhammer">Edmund Stoiber, Malerin Ruthild Langhammer and Bernhard M. Baron After the second world war she left her home town to join a traveling theater. She had taken lessons in acting and she later joined the German Drama School in Munich. She gave up drama before she married Erich Hölle. He illustrated books and together they had two children. In the 1950s she began publishing poetry and frequently in the Upper Palatinate dialect. Her work was creditted with making the dialect more well known. She felt that the dialect had been corrupted and she researched its history to recover old words. Despite the archaic words she managed to made her poems sound contemporary. She wrote a tribute poem to the poet Johann Andreas Schmeller who had also tried to revitalise the same dialect. She would read her poems on Bavarian radio programmes and assist the listeners with understanding the dialect. She knew that her poetry was very difficult to understand to those from outside Bavaria. In 1990 she won Neumarkt culture prize. In 2003 she was one of four honoured with the Bavarian literary prize Bayerischer Poetentaler. The others werePublications
Her first published poetry collection was in 1976. Her second small collection, "Iwa Jauha und Dooch" was published in 1981. Both of these were in her preferred dialect. In 1988 her self published poetry book in the common German language "On the Way" appeared. In 1996 her book of dialect poetry, "Wurzelherz", appeared.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hölle, Margret 1927 births 2023 deaths People from Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz German writers German philologists