Adele Gerhard, née Adele de Jonge, (born June 8, 1868 in Cologne; † May 10, 1956 there) was a German writer.
Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories. The works published until 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism. After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolist narrative style to express her religious-philosophical world of thought; stylistically, it moved closer to Expressionism during the 1920s.
With the beginning of the Third Reich, Adele Gerhard was exposed to repression by government agencies, even though she had converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911. After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938.
Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived in Cologne again. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes.
Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories. The works published until 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism. After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolist narrative style to express her religious-philosophical world of thought; stylistically, it moved closer to Expressionism during the 1920s.
With the beginning of the Third Reich, Adele Gerhard was exposed to repression by government agencies, even though she had converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911. After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938.
Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived in Cologne again. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes.
Adele Gerhard, née Adele de Jonge, (born June 8, 1868 in Cologne; † May 10, 1956 there) was a German writer.
Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories. The works published until 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism. After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolist narrative style to express her religious-philosophical world of thought; stylistically, it moved closer to Expressionism during the 1920s.
With the beginning of the Third Reich, Adele Gerhard was exposed to repression by government agencies, even though she had converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911. After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938.
Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived in Cologne again. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes.
Adele Gerhard's literary work consists mainly of novels and short stories. The works published until 1917 deal with social problems, the fate of women and families and are influenced by naturalism. After that, Gerhard increasingly used a symbolist narrative style to express her religious-philosophical world of thought; stylistically, it moved closer to Expressionism during the 1920s.
With the beginning of the Third Reich, Adele Gerhard was exposed to repression by government agencies, even though she had converted to Protestantism with her children in 1911. After her husband died in 1936, she followed her children into American exile in 1938.
Adele Gerhard returned to Germany in 1955 and lived in Cologne again. She died at the age of 87 in her apartment in Cologne-Nippes.
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