Alberta from Puttkamer

Alberta von Puttkamer (1849–1921)

Alberta von Puttkamer (born May 5, 1849 in Glogau as Anna Lucie Karoline Alberta Weise , † April 19, 1923 in Baden-Baden ) was a German writer.

Life

Anna Lucie Karoline Alberta Weise was the daughter of an upper-class family in Lower Silesia. She married the district judge Maximilian von Puttkamer , who became a member of the Reichstag in 1871 and was sent to Alsace-Lorraine in 1877 , where he finally became State Secretary in the Reich Office for Alsace-Lorraine from 1887 to 1901 . During this time she lived in Strasbourg for a long time; but moved to Baden-Baden in 1907, where her husband died in 1906. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Puttkamer was politically German-national and promoted German culture in her publications and in her literary salon in Strasbourg. Her drama Kaiser Otto The Third , which was played by Otto III , received special attention . acted. She wrote dramas, poems, literary and journalistic essays and songs and also sang herself.

She was an external member of the Association of Writers and Artists of Vienna and was made an honorary citizen of Glogau.

Works

• Emperor Otto the Third (play, 1883)
• Chords and chants (collection of poems, 1889)
• Revelations (seals, 1894)
• From the past. An Alsatian ballad book. Book decoration: Charles Spindler (1899), online  - Internet Archive
• The Manteuffel era (1904)
• Gabriele D'Annunzio (1905)
• From My Mind (1913)
• Merlin (1919)
• More Truth Than Poetry (Autobiography, 1919)

literature

• Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 287. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3

Web links

• Works by Alberta von Puttkamer in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Alberta von Puttkamer, pp. 151–169 in: Paul Remer (ed. (1867–1943)): The book of longing. A collection of German women's poetry. Berlin 1900, online  - Internet Archive