Alwine Wuthenow

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Alwine Wuthenow around 1850
Alwine Wuthenow at the age of 80

Alwine Wuthenow , b. Balthasar (born September 16, 1820 in Neuenkirchen (near Greifswald) ; † January 8, 1908 in Greifswald ; full name: Friederike Charlotte Alwine Wuthenow ) was a Low German poet who wrote under the pseudonym Annmariek Schulten .

Neuenkirchen rectory - Alwine Wuthenow's birthplace

Life and accomplishments

Alwine Wuthenow's father Johann Carl Balthasar (* August 2, 1784; † April 29, 1853) was the fourth generation of Jacob Balthasar , a brother of the then General Superintendent of Pomerania, Augustin Balthasar (1632–1688) and the then Mayor of Greifswald Heinrich Balthasar ( 1626? -1670). The father had been pastor in Neuenkirchen since 1819, was transferred to Gützkow in 1824 and was superintendent from 1844 .

Alwine Wuthenow's mother Ida Johanna Dorothea Otto (* April 30, 1789; † April 23, 1826) was the daughter of pastor Daniel Christoph Gerhard Otto († 1807) and Dorothea Ida von Hagenow (* November 10, 1763; † June 7 1844), Kosegarten's childhood sweetheart .

A good ten weeks before Alwine's birth, her two-year-old brother Bernhard drowned in their parents' garden pond. The terrible emotional shock that Alwine's mother had to endure as a result was probably the cause of the psychological problems with which Alwine had to struggle again and again for most of her entire life. Even as a child, she showed signs of a mental illness that forced her to stay in mental hospitals several times .

She lived on the Schulzenhof in Gützkow from 1827 to 1849 and wrote her first poems here.

Schulzenhof in Gützkow Alwine Wuthenow's place of residence
Memorial plaque at the Schulzenhof

In order to support the talented girl, her parents sent her to the Greifswald professor Hornschuch from 1833 to 1835 .

On September 29, 1843, Alwine married the lawyer Ferdinand Wuthenow , who was mayor of Gützkow from 1842 to 1849 and was then transferred to Greifswald as a district judge. The couple had five children: the daughters Helene (* 1846), Anna (* 1846) and Hermine (* 1852) as well as the sons Arthur (* 1844), Protestant pastor in Berlin-Steglitz , and Max (* 1853), senior public prosecutor in Landsberg on the Warta .

Because of her poor health, Alwine Wuthenow had to live in the St. Katharinenstift in Rostock from 1853 to 1874 ; Most of her poems were written during this time . Later she lived with her family again.

In 1855 and 1856 Fritz Reuter published the first poems by Alwine Wuthenow in his entertainment paper for both Mecklenburg and Pomerania . Later he was the editor of her first independent volume of poetry. Alwine Wuthenow was also in lively correspondence with the poet and writer Klaus Groth from 1857 to 1861.

In April 1862 the patient went to the sanatorium Winnental near Winnenden with financial support from Amalie Countess zu Solms . In October 1865 she met Eduard Mörike on a house call in Stuttgart , who described her as “very lively in conversation, but not exalted and truly modest”. In July 1867 Alwine returned to her family in Greifswald on a trial basis. From 1878 to 1904 she was in correspondence with the Kiel writer Johann Meyer .

Her grave is in the New Cemetery in Greifswald.

The Kassel composer Luise Greger (1861–1944), born in Greifswald, was on friendly terms with Alwine and Hermine Wuthenow and set some of Alwine's poems to music.

Works

  • En poa Blomen ut Annmariek Schulten honor Goahrn . Edited by Fritz Reuter . Greifswald 1858 ( digitized from Google Books)
    • New edition: Greifswald and Leipzig 1860
    • Third edition, ed. by Otto Vogel , Greifswald 1874.
  • Nige Blomen ut Annemariek Schulten honor Goren . Greifswald and Leipzig 1861. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • High German poems . Greifswald 1862 ( digitized from Google Books)
  • Blomen ut Annmariek Schulten honor Goren . Edited by Marx Möller . Greifswald 1896. ( Digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)

Revisions

Letters

  • Correspondence between Alwine Wuthenow and Klaus Groth . Edited by Eberhard Schmidt. Rostock 2006. ISBN 978-3-89954-244-8
  • Two letters to Countess Solms . In: Nige Blomen ut Annmariek Schulten honor Goren. Rostock 2012, pp. 219-229. ISBN 978-3-86785-224-1
  • Alwine Wuthenow. Letters to Johann Meyer . Edited by Eberhard Schmidt. Bargeshagen 2017. ISBN 978-3-86785-425-2

Rating

“ The very unusual, almost unprecedented origin of these poems would make these poems highly interesting as psychological problems. But this interest increases when, instead of the vague dream figures or the outbursts of wild despair that we expect here, we find, on the contrary, for the most part poems of the most delicate, modest and at the same time most healthy character. "

“ It was really the first time I read a book in Low German with pleasure; the spirit in which it was written and the form in which it was dressed are appealing, graceful. The woman simply writes about her heart and writes it as faithfully as one can only say it in the secret little room of the mother, loved one, child or father up there, it is always like a kiss or prayer, often that too heartfelt laughter or crying as the familiar ear is used to. Nowhere does she first create a spirit or a feeling or a mood, neither a high nor a raw one, in order to then laboriously search for words and rhymes, but she has a spirit and a feeling and often expresses them in a deeply shocking way. "

“ Fritz Reuter published her Low German poetry, which contains a lot of lovely things. "

“ In her native dialect, Alwine Wuthenow is undoubtedly a real poet; Apart from Klaus Groth, no Low German poet surpasses them in genuinely lyrical talent. "

“ One can confidently call her the most outstanding Low German poet. "

" A lyric poet with genuine feeling .. "

“ ... a poet who was one of the first to show that the Pomeranian plateau also has the right expressions and forms for deep pain and refreshing humor. "

“ Alwine Wuthenow always finds the right, mostly simple and deep tones for what moves her mind and soul, in lust and jokes, in her contemplations of nature, friendship and love, and above all a fine and winning form. Despite all the mischief and all the fine humor, a deep, happy, victorious seriousness predominates in her works, which is based on a strong trust in God. Your sick heart cannot cheer brightly. Again and again it is seized by a burning longing for home, for the relatives ... "

“ ... in terms of genuinely lyrical talent, no Low German poet surpasses her, with the exception of Klaus Groth; She is quite unique among the Low German female poets. ... Alwine Wuthenow belongs to the top ranks of Pomeranian poets. "

  • Walter Schmidt-Gruse 1935:

“ ... the greatest lyrical poet in our native Low German language. "

“ Alwine Wuthenow's poems belong to the best collection of Low German poetry. "

" A very unusual poet in attitude and tendency with a very unusual fate, unusual sensitivity and remarkable work ... "

“ ... is the most important Low German poet of the 19th century. "

“ Together with Fritz Reuter and Klaus Groth, Alwine Wuthenow can also be counted among the founders of the new Low German literature. "

“ One of the few outstanding authors of 19th century Low German literature is undoubtedly… Alwine Wuthenow. "

Poetry settings

Poems in anthologies

Gravesite of Alwine and Ferdinand Wuthenow in the New Cemetery in Greifswald
  • Selection of German poems for learned schools, by Dr. Theodor Echtermeyer . Ed. v. Friedrich August Eckstein , Halle 1863
  • Klaus Groth: Songs from and for Schleswig-Holstein . Hamburg 1864, pp. 127–129 digitized
  • E. Hackland-Rhinelander: Van de Waterkant bit on the Alpine wall. The dialect poets of the present . Grossenhain 1885.
  • Karl Weiss : Our women in a selection from their poems. By Karl Schrattenthal (pseud.), Stuttgart 1888, p. 483f.
  • C. Regenhardt: The German dialects: Low German . Berlin: Regenhardt 1895, pp. 309-311; 2nd ed. 1899, pp. 372-375
  • Fritz Wischer : From the Low German poet forest. Kiel: Cordes (1902), pp. 227-239
  • Otto Karstädt : Plattdütsch Blomengarden . Berlin 1907, p. 155f.
  • Max Guhlke : Pomeranian Poetry . Stargard 1913, p. 184
  • Albrecht Janssen and Johannes Schräpel : House book of Low German poetry . Munich: Callwey 1926, pp. 76f., 139f. u. 165f.
  • Conrad Borchling and Hermann Quistorf : A thousand years of Low German. Hamburg 1927, pp. 290-291
  • Walter Schröder : Low German poetry. Stettin: Fischer & Schmidt (1930), pp. 196-204
  • Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld : 500 years of Low German in Greifswald. Rostock: Hinstorff 1956, pp. 23–32
  • Hans Joachim Gernentz : Low German - yesterday and today. Rostock: Hinstorff 1980, p. 295
  • Jürgen Grambow u. Wolfgang Müns: Ick weit en Land ... Rostock: Hinstorff 1984, pp. 108–120
  • Willi Passig: They shouldn't be forgotten. Low German poet book for Pomerania . Elmenhorst / Vorpommern: Edition Pommern 2016, pp. 155–161 ISBN 978-3-939680-30-7

literature

  • Karl Theodor Gaedertz : Fritz Reuter and Annmariek Schulten. In: German revue about the entire national life of the present. Volume 13, Volume 4. Trewendt, Breslau 1888, pp. 31–73 ( digitized version )
  • Wuthenow, Mrs. Alwine . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 454 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 8. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 58 ( digitized version )
  • Heinrich Spiero : History of German Women's Poetry since 1800 . Leipzig 1913, p. 48
  • Otto Altenburg : Alwine Wuthenow. In: Pomeranian Life Pictures . Volume I. Stettin 1934, pp. 197-207.
  • Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 364.
  • Hartmut Brun : Verses like pearls under pebbles . In: Norddeutscher Leuchtturm , weekend supplement of the Norddeutsche Zeitung of March 24, 1981, p. 6
  • Franz Schüppen : Poetry of bourgeois realism from Western Pomerania. In: Quickborn, 82 (1992), pp. 248-267 and 83 (1993), pp. 13-31, ISSN  0170-7558
  • Franz Schüppen: An early solution to Frau Jenny Treibel's problem: Alwine Wuthenow on poetry and prose 1862 . In: Heinrich Kröger and Henning Wiechers (eds.): Stünn to Stünn. Festschrift for Bernd Jörg Diebner to his 60th birthday on May 8, 1999 . De Kennung , supplement 9. Soltau and Heidelberg 2000, DNB  95908634X , p. 86-98 .
  • Reinhard Rösler : "... it was the best things that were in the entertainment paper" - Alwine Wuthenow and her poems . In: Contributions of the Fritz Reuter Society Volume 14. Rostock 2004, pp. 33–49. ISBN 3-356-01042-5 .
  • Ulf Bichel : Evaluation of Low German in the correspondence between Alwine Wuthenow and Klaus Groth . In: Annual edition of the Klaus Groth Society . Volume 47. Heide 2005, pp. 13-23. ISBN 3-8042-0968-8 .
  • Herbert Jacob [ed.]: German writer lexicon 1830–1880. No. 8/2317 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-05-005644-9
  • Eberhard Schmidt: "To Griepswold in de Bökstrat wier't". Local purchases in Alwine Wuthenow's factory . In: Contributions of the Fritz Reuter Society . Volume 25. Rostock 2015, pp. 60-74. ISBN 978-3-356-01920-9
  • Gunnar Müller-Waldeck : Wuthenow, Alwine (1820–1908) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 280–283.
  • Bruno Jahn: Wuthenow, Alwine . In: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Vol. XXXVI, 3rd edition Berlin / Boston 2017, Sp. 451–454, ISBN 978-3-11-036192-6

Web links

Commons : Alwine Wuthenow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Alwine Wuthenow  - Sources and full texts

Footnotes

  1. ^ Church book Gützkow 1843
  2. ↑ cf. H. Franck: Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten. Halle 1887, pp. 95–105
  3. ↑ Eberhard Schmidt (ed.): Blomen ut Annmariek Schulten honor Goren . Rostock 2008, p. 124, note 11
  4. ^ First suspected by Edmund Lange in: Die Grenzboten 1898, reprinted in: Blomen ut Annmariek Schulten ehren Goren. Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-86785-035-3
  5. ^ Reprint Rostock: Hinstorff 1989, pp. 48, 52, 56, 60, 108, 112, 143f., 152 and 159 of the year 1855; P. 4 and 22f. of the year 1856. ISBN 3-356-00248-1
  6. ^ Eduard Mörike: Works and Letters. Vol. 18, p. 121. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2006. ISBN 3-608-33180-8
  7. ↑ German Museum. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1857, pp. 698f. ( Digitized version )
  8. ↑ Letters on Standard German and Low German. Kiel 1858, pp. 145f. ( Digitized version )
  9. ^ Letter from Mörike of January 14, 1866 to the Hartlaub family
  10. ↑ The border messengers. Leipzig 1898, pp. 526-532 ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ Illustrirte Zeitung , Leipzig, September 20, 1900, p. 429
  12. ↑ HKA Krüger: History of Low German or Low German literature from Heliand to the present. Schwerin 1913, p. 106 ( digitized version )
  13. ↑ Our Pommerland . Stettin 1921, p. 374f.
  14. ↑ Low German poetry with a special relationship to Pomerania. Stettin 1930, p. 11
  15. ↑ Pomeranian Life Pictures Volume I. Saunier, Stettin 1934, p. 197 u. 207
  16. ↑ Our Pommerland. Stettin 1935, p. 275
  17. ↑ Ick far and wide. Low German poems and rhymes from Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania. Hinstorff, Rostock 1984, p. 288
  18. ↑ Quickborn. Journal for Low German Language and Poetry. Hamburg 1993, p. 28
  19. ↑ In Fritz Reuter's footsteps. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006. ISBN 978-3-356-01162-3 .
  20. ^ History of German literature in Pomerania. Weidler, Berlin 2013, p. 260. ISBN 978-3-89693-588-5 .
  21. ↑ Baltic Studies . NF 104. Ludwig, Kiel 2019, p. 224 f. ISBN 978-3-86935-359-3 .
  22. ↑ Pomeranian Song. Stettin 1926, p. 100
  23. ↑ Pommernsang, p. 36.
  24. ↑ Our Pommerland. Vol. 10 (1925), p. 101
  25. ↑ Pommernsang, p. 99.
  26. ↑ Our Pommerland. Vol. 9 (1924), p. 281.
  27. ↑ Dragseth : Stää un Stünn . CD 07997. (2012)
personal data
SURNAME Wuthenow, Alwine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wuthenow, Friederike Charlotte Alwine (full name); Schulten, Annmariek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenkirchen (near Greifswald)
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1908
Place of death Greifswald