Carola Matthiesen
{{short description|German university teacher (1944 –2015)}}
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| name = Carola Matthiesen
| image = Carola Matthiesen fd.jpg
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| birth_date = 9 November 1925
| birth_place = Eslohe, Germany
| death_date = {{d-da|29 April 2015|9 November 1925}}
| death_place = Meschede
| occupation = educator, librarian, writer and poet
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Carola Matthiesen (9 November 1925 in Eslohe – 29 April 2015) was a German educator, librarian, writer and poet.{{Cite web |title=Traueranzeigen von Carola Matthiesen {{!}} Trauer-in-NRW.de |url=https://trauer-in-nrw.de/traueranzeige/carola-matthiesen |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=trauer-in-nrw.de |language=de-DE}}
Life
After attending school and training as a teacher, Carola Matthiesen briefly pursued her career as a kindergarten teacher. Further training focused on literature followed. She married in 1954 and three years later their son was born. From 1971 –1987, Mathiesen was first the deputy director and then the president of the Meschede City Library. She died on 29 April 2015, and was laid to rest in the South Cemetery on Steinstrasse in Meschede.{{Cite web |title=Matthiesen, Carola – Lexikon Westfälischer Autorinnen und Autoren |url=https://www.lexikon-westfaelischer-autorinnen-und-autoren.de/autoren/matthiesen-carola/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |language=de-DE}}
Carola Matthiesen was a member of the German Haiku Society, the Westphalian Literary Office, the Christian Lavant Society and the Friends of Poetry in Innsbruck, as well as a founding member of the Koch Christian Society.{{Cite book |title=Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2008/2009, S. 851, De Gruyter, ISBN 3-598-23592-5}}
Awards
She has received several national and international awards and prizes.{{Cite web |date=2014-12-11 |title=Carola Matthiesen - Autoren - NRW Literatur im Netz |url=http://www.nrw-literatur-im-netz.de/datenbank/autoren/385-matthiesen-carola.html |access-date=2024-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211120438/http://www.nrw-literatur-im-netz.de/datenbank/autoren/385-matthiesen-carola.html |archive-date=2014-12-11 }}
- Haiku Prize for Eulenwinkel and awarding of the title “Senryumeister” from the German Haiku Society e.V. in 2001
- 1st prize in the Haiku competition of the German Haiku Society e.V. in 1999
- 1st Prize Sonnet (as an art form within poetry) from the Society of Poetry Friends in 1995
- 1st prize for ballad poetry from the Society of Poetry Friends in 1994
- Reader's Prize from the Society of Poetry Friends 1993
- Nomination of the volume of poetry “Light of the Star Fields” for the Book Prize of the Evangelical Church of Germany in 1989
Works
- Heiter bis wolkig im Sauerland und anderswo, Brilon, Podszun, 2005, ISBN 3-86133-411-9
- Mit leisem Atem, Göttingen, Graphikum Mock, 2001, ISBN 3-88996-452-4
- Spinnwebentage, Meschede, Wullenweber, 1992, ISBN 3-926852-05-4
- Dämmergrün vor meinem Fenster, Meschede, Wullenweber, 1989, ISBN 3-926852-03-8
- Licht von Sternenfeldern, Meschede, Wullenweber, 1987, ISBN 3-926852-01-1
References
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Category:20th-century German women writers
Category:21st-century German women writers