Margret Hölle

Margret Hölle born Margret Sträußl (2 April 1927 – 16 October 2023) was a German poet, playwright and writer who supported the Upper Palatinate dialect. She was awarded the Bayerischer Poetentaler and the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Life Hölle was born in 1927 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. In the 1950s she began publishing poetry and frequently in the Upper Palatinate dialect. Her work was creditted with making the dialect more well known. She would read her poems on Bavarian radio programmes and assist the listeners with understanding the dialect. She knew that her poetry was very difficult to understand to those from outside Bavaria. In 2003 she was one of four honoured with the Bavarian literary prize Bayerischer Poetentaler. The others were Silke Aichhorn, Helmut Seitz and Jutta Speidel. The Bayerischer Poetentaler is given by the Münchner Turmschreiber writers guild. On October 10, 2012, she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Hölle died in Munich in 2023 at the age of 96.