Agnes Miegel
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Agnes Miegel (9 March 1879 in Königsberg, East Prussia – 26 October 1964 in Bad Salzuflen, West Germany) was a German author, journalist, and poet.
She is best known for her poems and short stories about East Prussia, but also for the support she gave to the Nazi Party.
Literary career
Gedichte, Miegel's first collection of poems, appeared in 1901 and was named Gedichte. She had written 33 books of poetry, short stories, and plays by 1945. She also wrote for newspapers (especially the Ostpreßische Zeitung) and magazines. She wrote extensively about universal topics such as man's course of life, nature, life in the countryside, and the past (especially in Germany). These poems and stories were set in East Prussia, and they became her most popular works. Die Frauen von Nidden ("The Women of Nidden," 1907), in which the village of Nidden (present-day Nidden) is devastated by a bubonic plague epidemic, her most popular early poem was Die Frauen von Nidden ("The Women of Nidden). The seven women who survived the disease were buried alive by drifting sand dunes near the village.
During her Third Reich National Socialist theme, there were traces of her work: complaints about the "heavy yoke" carried by cities like Memel and Danzig, which had been separated from Germany after the First World War; glorification of the war; and glorification of German children. But she did not write "Über der Weichsel drüben" ("On the other side of the Vistula") (republished in Ostland), she screamed for the Poles, who, she said, would have overrun East Prussia. Adolf Hitler's two odes were written by her. Dem Führer, the first of these, was published in 1936 and cited in Werden und Werk (1938), a retrospective of Miegel's life and work. In Tauber's words, An den Führer, is a "hysterical adulation" of Hitler, which was published as a sort of preface in Ostland. Both Werden und Werk and Ostland were forbidden books in Germany's Soviet occupation zone after the Second World War. Her work were not antisemitism, to her credit, but not necessarily free from Nazis' Blut und Boden ideology.
She wrote mostly about East Prussia as she remembered it after her publication ban was lifted in 1949. The name of her first collection of poems after the war is a common: "You nevertheless remain within me" (Du aber bleibst in mir). Her best known stories and poems are melancholic reflections on her Heimat (homeland) that had been lost and is now out of reach. This is certainly true of her most popular poem, Es war ein Land (1949). This was "exactly the idealized image that the expellee groups had cultivated," Blackbourn writes, as if all had been pastoral harmony until the Red Army marched west, as if the mass flight of Germans had fallen out of a clear blue sky."
She was not vindictive of the Russians and Poles who had taken possession of East Prussia. She pleaded with her readers nothing but hate in a 1951 poem (to hate everything but hate).
She refused to be accountable for her acts during the Nazi period. She was only able to say, "Ich habe ich allein abnehmen undicken" and with no one else ("I have to deal this with my God and with no one else."
Her publications in Germany after 1945 mainly exclude her work from 1933 to 1945, propagating the image of an apolitical author.
Miegel's poems are usually short, with some rhymes rhyming and others not.
In his anthology of outstanding German literature, Marcel Reich-Ranicki included three of her poems (Die Schwester, Die Nibelungen, and Die Frauen von Nidden) (Part Gedichte, 2005).