Gerda Herrmann

Gerda Herrmann (June 30, 1931 in Cannstatt – April 15, 2021 ) was a German composer and poet. She had been living in Botnang since the 1960s and wrote more than 400 songs, setting to music both her own and other authors’ lyrics. Life and work Gerda Herrmann received piano lessons for almost three years from 1941 to 1943, until her school was evacuated to Metzingen due to aerial bombings. From then on, she played the piano without receiving further lessons. In 1972, Herrmann wrote her first poem, when she was asked to write one for a service held at Friendenskirche Stuttgart in support of Amnesty International. Herrmann herself described her style as “not modern”, but “most likely to be classified as belonging to the romantic period”. Additionally, her style became more simple in her old age, which she attributed to Angelus Silesius’ quote “Human, focus on the essence”. and was additionally screened in competition at Berlin Independent Film Festival. Encouraging creative writing by young people From 2003, until her death, Gerda Herrman was a founding member as well as deputy chairwoman of the Förderkreis Kreatives Schreiben und Musik, which publishes anthologies featuring texts by y