Minni Grosch
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Minni Grosch (born Wilhelmine Maria Grosch, 13 September 1879 – 21 January 1963), also known as Minnie Grosch and Elisabeth Gerheim, was a German writer. She published mainly girls’ literature (Mädchenliteratur) between the 1920s and the 1950s. Some of her works from the 1930s contain antisemitic and racist themes aligned with Nazi propaganda.
Grosch was born in 1879 in Mainz-Kastel. Her sister was the painter Sophie Grosch (1874–1962). She attended the teacher training college in Darmstadt and later worked as an in-house editor at the Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft publishing house in Stuttgart from 1912 to 1934. Between 1912 and 1928 she also ran a private school.[1][2]
During the 1920s and 1930s, Grosch published several Backfischromane (novels for adolescent girls) as part of the Kränzchen Library series, many of which were reprinted several times. Under the Nazi regime, she wrote several propagandistic novels for girls.[3] After the Second World War, her 1938 novel Um Hof und Sippe was placed on the list of banned literature (Liste der auszusondernden Literatur) in the Soviet occupation zone.[4]
Grosch died in 1963 in Mainz-Gonsenheim.[1] In 2020, she was included in a list of women from Gonsenheim who were proposed as potential namesakes for streets in Mainz.[5]
