Ada Christians

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Ada Christians
Grave of Ada Christen in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery

Ada Christen , actually Christi (a) na von Breden , née Fr (i) ederik (born March 6, 1839 in Vienna ; died May 19, 1901 in Inzersdorf ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Ada Christen was born as Christiane Rosalia Friederik , daughter of the Viennese wholesale merchant Johann Friederik and his wife Christine. She first grew up in prosperity and secure circumstances. The family lived on the Alsergrund , a suburb of Vienna.

Because of his involvement in the revolution of 1848 , the father was sentenced to several years in prison, of which he later died. The family got into misery and Christians had to earn their own living, first as a flower girl and seamstress, then as a member of a traveling theater with which she toured the Austro-Hungarian province for several years. She played at the Meidlinger Theater from 1855 to 1858 .

In 1864 she married the Hungarian nobleman Siegmund von Neupauer, landowner and judge from St. Gotthardt near Ödenburg .

But after the early death of her husband, who died mentally deranged in 1868, Christians found themselves again in misery. After the death of her child, she returned to Vienna, where she again worked as an actress (including on the Strampferschen and on the Josefstädter stage ). But she also tried to find an income as a writer.

Through the mediation of Ferdinand von Saar , the first book was published in 1868, her first volume of poems, Lieder einer Verlorene , which, through its combination of erotic frankness and social accusation, became a provocation of the bourgeoisie and achieved correspondingly high editions. Saar had also advised her to use the pseudonym Ada Christen , which she kept for all further publications. Other volumes of poetry followed, as well as stories, novels and dramas. From 1874 onwards, she also contributed to magazines ( Illustrated Austrian Folk Calendar ) and newspapers.

In 1873 she had Adalmar von Breden , entrepreneur, Rittmeister a. D. and military writer, married, which initially relieved her of material worries and allowed her to run a salon in which some of the most important writers of the time met, including Ferdinand von Saar, who was a particularly good friend, and Ludwig Anzengruber . Due to her husband's economic failures, another difficult economic situation arose towards the end of the 1880s.

The first performance of her folk play Wiener Leut (based on Jungfer Mutter ) on February 1, 1894 in the German Volkstheater in Vienna was a failure. As a result, the worsening of a previously occurring nervous condition forced her to withdraw completely from the public. Health resorts and trips to Venice , Menton and Berchtesgaden brought no improvement. Christen retired to Gut Einsamhof near Inzersdorf , where she died on May 19, 1901.

She was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (Group 18, No. 14 + 15). In 1968 the Ada-Christen-Gasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after her.

Works

First editions (chronological)

  • An honest man (singing play in one act). Music by Christian Seidel . Bloch, Berlin 1860, 21 pp.
  • Three soldiers (genre picture with singing in one act). Freely after the Franz. Von Ada Christen. Bloch, Berlin 1861, 42 pp.
  • The Häuslerin (Volksstück) 1867
  • Songs of a Lost (Poems) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1868, VII, 85 S. (online resource)
  • Ella (Roman) 1869 (NDB 3.1957)
  • From the Ashes (New Poems) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1870 (NDB 3.1957) (online resource http://gateway-bayern.de/BV020370290 )
  • Faustina (drama in five acts). Jakob Dirnböcks (Georg Brandt), Vienna 1871, 123 p. (NDB 3,1957)
  • Shadows (poems) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1872
  • On the way (sketches) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1874 (NDB 3,1957)
  • From life. (Sketches) Ernst Julius Günther Nachf., Leipzig 1876 (NDB 3.1957) (Contents include : Käthes Federhut , Rahel ) (online resource http://gateway-bayern.de/BV001167129 )
  • From the depths (poems) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1878 (NDB 3,1957)
  • Our neighbors (sketches) Heinrich Minden, Dresden 1884 (NDB 3.1957) (content including: The lonely sparrow , neighbor Krippelmacher , When he returned home )
  • When she died (novella) 1888
  • Virgin mother. A Viennese suburban history. (Roman) Heinrich Minden, Dresden 1892 (NDB 3.1957) (Digital http://www.zeno.org/nid/20004654838 )
  • Wiener Leut (Volksstück) 1893 (first performed on February 1, 1894 at the German Volkstheater Vienna)
  • How Lottchen learned to sew . (Narration) 1897 (NDB 3,1957)
  • The canary (story) 1897 (NDB 3,1957)
  • The clove bed (story) 1897 (NDB 3,1957)
  • Hypnotized (comedy) 1898 (NDB 3.1957)
  • Miss Pascha (comedy) 1899 (NDB 3,1957)
  • Evchen's last doll (story) 1901 (NDB 3,1957)
  • On the icebreaker (story) 1901 (NDB 3,1957)
  • Erna's dream (story) 1902 (NDB 3,1957)

Work editions

  • Selected Works. Edited by WA Hammer. 1911 (partial collection)
  • The house to the blue goose. Selection from stories and poems. Edited by Hanna-Heide Kraze . Union Verlag, Berlin (East) 1964

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ada Christians  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Ada Christen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ according to other information in 1844
  2. ^ Book of the Dead Wien-Landstrasse (Pauluskirche), tom. I, margin no. 108 ( facsimile ); Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung, May 20, 1901, p. 7 ( facsimile ).
  3. ^ Judge was the official title of the highest administrative officer and judge of a district in the military dictatorship established by Austria after the Hungarian uprising of 1848/49.
  4. ↑ Wedding book Vienna Lutheran City Church, tom. X, margin no.194 ( facsimile ).
personal data
SURNAME Christians, Ada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friederik, Christiane Rosalia; Neupauer, Christiane von; Breden, Christiane von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1901
Place of death Inzersdorf (Vienna)