Louise Adeline Weitzel was a German-American writer

Writer

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. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wisconsin

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. Her family moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 while she was still a young lady.

Given the socio-cultural context in which she was born and raised, her work can be considered quite unique, not only because of the content of her writing per se but also because she produced and published her texts as a woman and in her native German dialect (Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch) in the United States

United States

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Education & Professional life

Louise A. Weitzel obtained her education at Sunnyside Kollitsch and at the Linden Hall Seminary for girls. Later she would work for local German-language newspapers where she ultimately found a vehicle to her voice as a poet

Poet

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. In 1908 she published the book A quiver of arrows: Poems by Louise A. Weitzel.

Religious life

Louise A. Weitzel was an active member of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine fellowship, a Christian reformist

Protestant Reformation

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 movement that preceded the German Protestant Martin Luther

Martin Luther

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 in Europe

Europe

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 by more than a century, with the work initiated by John Huss.

Poems

• Bee
• Der Viert Tschulei
• Die Grummler
• Die Sunn scheint aryeds wo
• Mei Nochber hot en Reedio
• Nackich
• Vum Schiesse
• Siggaretts
• S Wedder
• Was meent's
• Wie zuvor
• Wu fehlt's
• Zu schtarrick

External links

• Hiwwe wie Driwwe (Hiwwe wie Driwwe: die pennsylvaanisch-deitsch Zeiding / The homepage of the Pennsylvania German newspaper.)
• The Pennsylvania German Society