Else Hueck-Dehio (1897–1976) was a German author from the Baltic region of the Russian Empire who wrote stories about Estonia.

Life

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

Dorpat Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

Livonia Livonia, known in earlier records as Livland, is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the Livonians, who lived on the shores of present-day Latvia. By the end of the 13th century, the name was extende ...

in the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

. Else Dehio was the daughter of a

Baltic German Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...

doctor, Karl Dehio. She initially qualified as a nurse, but then fled from her Baltic homeland to

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

ahead of the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution, social change in Russian Empire, Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia Dissolution of the Russian Empire, abolish its mona ...

in 1918. During the rest of her life she lived in Berlin,

Lüdenscheid Lüdenscheid () is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Sauerland region. Geography Lüdenscheid is located on the saddle of the watershed between the Lenne and Volme rivers whic ...

and, from 1955, in Murnau in

Upper Bavaria Upper Bavaria (, ; ) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat of the district gove ...

. 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 (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 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. * *

References

External links

* * https://www.academia.edu/43746357/Else_Hueck_Dehio_1897_1976_und_ihre_estl%C3%A4ndischen_Geschichten_als_deutschbaltischer_Erinnerungsort_Semikonfessionelle_Regionalliteratur_und_die_Rezeption_baltischer_Kultur_in_der_Bundesrepublik {{DEFAULTSORT:Hueckdehio, Else German women writers German-language writers Writers of young adult literature People from Lüdenscheid Baltic-German nobility 1897 births 1976 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany