Anna Klie

Anna Klie

Friederike Emilie Anna Klie , married Schultz-Klie (* 1. March 1858 in Cramme ; † 22. September 1913 in Braunschweig ) was a German poet and children's and youth book author . She and the Braunschweig-born writer Ricarda Huch had a close friendship that lasted over three decades and lasted until Klie's death.

life and work

BLIK notice board on Klie's house at Bertramstrasse 59

Anna Klie came from a large family. She was born as the eldest child of the Klie couple in Cramme, a small village about 20 km south of Braunschweig. Her father was the businessman Karl Klie († 1889). Soon after Anna was born, the family moved to the industrial city of Braunschweig, which was emerging in the second half of the 19th century, where the father hoped for better paid work. The family initially lived on Cammanstrasse, near the large industrial companies in the west of the city. Ricarda Huch, childhood friend of Anna Klies, describes her family, who lived in a working-class district in front of Frankfurter Tore [...] in a coal-blackened, noisy, unattractive quarter , as (in a positive sense) " petty bourgeois ", including wit, humor and understanding of a peculiar folk coloring .

Anna Klie attended the Municipal Higher School for Daughters (today's Gymnasium Kleine Burg ) in Braunschweig and then the Municipal School of Crafts and Applied Arts , the forerunner of today's University of Fine Arts . At the age of 29, Anna Klie became a teacher of drawing and handicraft at the municipal secondary school for girls , which she had once attended herself. She stayed there until 1897, the year she married Hans Martin Schultz, teacher at the Braunschweig Wilhelm-Gymnasium , literary scholar and Wilhelm Raabe researcher, and later chairman of the Society of Friends of Wilhelm Raabe and lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig . She got to know Raabe through her husband. The couple initially lived at Bertramstrasse 59, where a plaque commemorates Anna Klie today. In 1901 they both moved to Uhlentwete 1 (today Eulenstrasse), where Klie lived until her death in 1913.

Writing activity

Karl August Baumeister , an uncle Anna Klies living in Munich and himself a writer, introduced her to Paul Heyse, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his work. Heyse introduced Klie to literature. Anna Klie's work, which she published exclusively under her maiden name , stands out from the so-called " Backfischliteratur ", which was very widespread between around 1870 and 1940 , in that it depicts and uses untraditional role stereotypes as well as sweetly trimmed and exaggerated, unrealistic girls' dreams were portrayed, but rather the reality of young women in the present day in the German Empire around 1900. In her book Viktoria Erika , published in 1895 . Klie described realistic , contemporary living conditions in a story for young girls . In The Blonde Tailor from 1904, The Life of a Teacher and in Sister Idaly from 1908 she emphasized the importance of a practical profession for young women, in this case that of a nurse . Some of her books, for example From Braunschweig's Past from 1902 and From the Uhlentwete from 1909, have a clear reference to the city of Braunschweig and its surroundings, for example the Harz foreland south of the city . Some of her poems, including Für Kinderherzen from 1894, were later set to music by Peter Gast .

Works (selection)

From the Uhlentwete. Cheerful and serious , first edition from 1909

• 1894: For children's hearts
• 1895: poems
• 1895: Viktoria Erika
• 1902: From Braunschweig's past
• 1904: The blonde tailor
• 1905: Murtchen Hauptvogel and his playmates
• 1908: Sister Idaly
• 1909: From the Uhlentwete. Cheerful and serious
• 1909: Funny things
• 1910: The first flight into life
• 1911: dance lessons and other things
• 1912: Five aunts
• 1913: The dusty great-uncle

Friendship with Ricarda Huch

Ricarda Huch (left) and Anna Klie around 1875

Lonely I go my way
With the mother she walks
My little dearest
beloved Anna Klie.
(Beginning of a poem by Ricarda Huch, which she wrote at the age of 18.)

Anna Klie had been a close friend of Ricarda Huch, who was six years her junior, and with whom she maintained a busy correspondence until the end of her life. They both met through Ricarda's five-year-older sister Lilly, with whom Klie was first friends. Klie was also friends with Rudolf Huch , the brother of the two. The common interest in writing brought Anna Klie and Ricarda Huch together. Among other things, she introduced Huch to the work of Gottfried Keller . Klie was often a guest in the Huch house on today's Hohetorwall 11 (then Hohetorpromenade ) and was treated like a family member there. Conversely, Ricarda Huch was “not exactly welcome” in the Klies house because the contact and her visits there “robbed Anna Klie of a lot of time and she [Anna], the eldest, could have alienated the family”. Nevertheless, the two of them met often until Ricarda Huch had to leave Braunschweig in 1887 for family reasons to first take her Abitur in Zurich and then study there, which was not possible for women in the German Empire at the time. The whole time they both kept in close correspondence. When Huch returned to Braunschweig 20 years later, between 1907 and 1910, to live with her second husband and cousin Richard Huch, the two women met again regularly. Anna Klie was already terminally ill at that time. After Huch's second marriage had failed, she left the city for good, but both continued to keep in touch by letters until Klie died three years later. Ricarda Huch described her friendship with Anna Klie, which lasted more than 30 years, as "a pretty solid point in her changeful existence".

Contact with Wilhelm Raabe

Anna Schultz-Klie, as she called herself since the wedding, got to know the writer Wilhelm Raabe through her husband, who was very interested in literature. At the same time, an intensive literary activity began, which lasted until her death and which had begun with her acquaintance Schultzes. As a teacher Anna Klie Margarethe Raabe , one of the four daughters of Wilhelm Raabe and his wife Johanne Sophie Caroline Berta, née Heyden, taught. Wilhelm Raabe is said to have appreciated Anna Klie very much.

Anna Klie died at the age of 55 from a long, serious illness.

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 6, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, pp. 338–339.
• Luitgard Cramer: Klie, Anna. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 129 .
• Elisabeth Gräfe: Klie, Friederike Emilie Anna. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 321-322 .
• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. Self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2003, pp. 135–136.
• Else Hoppe (Ed.): Unpublished letters from Ricarda Huch to her friend Anna Klie from Braunschweig. In: Waldemar Augustiny (Ed.): Low German Almanach. Face and likeness. Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1959, pp. 146–167.
• Ricarda Huch : Memories of Anna Klie. In: Heinrich Spiero (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe and his circle of life. Klemm, Berlin 1931, pp. 129-132.
• Wolfhart Klie: Anna Klie. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 3, Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-925268-53-3 , pp. 116–121.
• Anja Steinhoff: Anna Klie. In: Arbeitskreis Other Geschichte (Ed.): Braunschweiger women yesterday and today. Six walks. Lebenshilfe, Braunschweig 2002, ISBN 3-929778-08-4 , pp. 89-90.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Klie in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerd Biegel : The writer Anna Klie. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of October 4, 2012.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Kurt Hoffmeister: Braunschweigs literati. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. P. 135.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ricarda Huch: Memories of Anna Klie. P. 130.
4. ↑ Wolfhart Klie: Anna Klie. P. 117.
5. ^ Elisabeth Graefe: Klie, Friederike Emilie Anna. P. 322.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Anja Steinhoff: Anna Klie. In: Arbeitskreis Other Geschichte (Ed.): Braunschweiger women yesterday and today. Six walks. P. 90.
7. ↑ Gerd Biegel: Everyday scenes from the Uhlentwete. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from April 17, 2014.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Biegel: Anna Klie's view of Braunschweig. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of March 7, 2011.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfhart Klie: Anna Klie. P. 118.
10. ↑ Anja Steinhoff: Anna Klie. In: Brunswick women yesterday and today. Six walks. P. 90.
11. ^ Elisabeth Graefe: Klie, Friederike Emilie Anna. P. 322.
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Ricarda Huch: Memories of Anna Klie. P. 129.
13. ↑ Anna Gabrisch (ed.): Ricarda Octavia Huch: You, my demon, my snake ... letters to Richard Huch 1887–1897. Volume 1 (= publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Volume 72), Wallstein, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 978-3-89244-184-7 .
14. ^ ^{A b} Ricarda Huch: Memories of Anna Klie. In: Heinrich Spiero (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe and his circle of life. P. 131.
15. ↑ quoted from: Else Hoppe (Hrsg.): Unpublished letters Ricarda Huch to her friend Anna Klie from Braunschweig. P. 150.

Remarks

1. ↑ Both that with Wolfhart Klie: Anna Klie. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 3, p. 116 given birth and death dates are wrong.