Sibylla Schwarz

Her life was relatively untroubled until the Thirty Years' War reached Greifswald in 1627 and her mother suddenly died in 1630.

Her verse reflects the difficult times in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, of which she saw neither the beginning nor the end.

Important themes in her work include friendship, love, war and death.

Her verse was published posthumously in 1650 by her teacher Samuel Gerlach under the title Deutsche Poëtische Gedichte in two parts containing over 100 poems.

Literary historians began to pay renewed attention to her in the 19th century as one of the few notable female writers of Baroque literature in German.