Amalie Marby

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Luise Auguste Amalie Marby (born August 29, 1834 in Cottbus , † August 25, 1915 there ) was a German writer.

Life

Amalie Marby was born in Cottbuser Münzstraße 13. Her parents were the sergeant and later police secretary Christoph Gottlieb Marby and his wife Christiane Friederike Wilhelmine. She attended the citizen school in Cottbus. She began her writing activities with a story about the wars of freedom, which were based essentially on the memories of her grandfather and was printed on a calendar. Her first novella Schloss Falkenberg appeared in the Cottbuser Wochenblatt in 1868 . In total, she wrote about 40 novels and short stories, which appeared in the Cottbuser Wochenblatt , the Berliner Volks-Zeitung , the magazine Daheim , the Deutsche Romanzeitung by Otto Janke and the Cottbuser Anzeiger , but were also published in book form. She had a friendly correspondence with the well-known writer E. Marlitt .

Amalie Marby remained unmarried and lived almost her entire life in Cottbus. She only left the city for a few trips, which took her to Budapest and the Balkans , among others , and on which she collected material for her works. Marby spent the last years of her life in the Auguste pen . On March 7, 1915, she suffered a stroke that led to paralysis and myopia. Then she took her nephew Ernst Marby in with her. He was the son of Amalie's older brother Karl Albrecht and lived at Zimmerstrasse 34. Amalie Marby died on August 25 of the same year. She was buried in the Cottbus south cemetery. Her tombstone, on which she is described as a novelist, was later transferred to the Branitz Museum. Today it is in the Cottbus city archive .

Literary style

The works of Marby can be classified as trivial literature . The Cottbus antiquarian and local researcher Walter Drangosch compared her literary work with that of Hedwig Courths-Mahler and E. Marlitt . She also dealt with Wendish and Jewish topics and conveyed cultural issues in an entertaining, but sometimes maudlin, way.

In her novella Hanka , she describes the life of a Wendish peasant girl of the same name. She worked as a maid in town for two years. After she returns to her home village to support her parents, cultural conflicts arise. Hanka is not ready to take off her urban “German” clothes. That is why she is avoided by the village youth and her mother, who would rather come to terms with a dead daughter than with a non-reversibly dressed daughter.

Marby's novel The Star of Mostar is about a young girl from Herzegovina . This should be saved from marrying a man who is known as a traitor. The historical framework for the plot forms the liberation struggle of the Herzegovinians against the Ottomans . In the course of the novel, the girl is then sent to the front as a paramedic.

Aftermath

Street sign Amalie Marby Street in German and Lower Sorbian language

Today, Marby's works have largely been forgotten. The Cottbus city archive still contains editions of Die Salon-Fee , Der Stern von Mostar and Hanka . In addition, Der Stern von Mostar appeared in the Cottbus Generalanzeiger between 1990 and 1991 as a serial novel. In the Cottbus city library, however, there are no works by Amalie Marby to be found.

An Amalie-Marby-Straße has existed in the Schmellwitz district of Cottbus since 2007 .

Works (selection)

  • Falkenberg Castle. Novella, 1868.
  • Tied hearts. Novel, 2 volumes, 1880.
  • The Brandows. Roman, 1888.
  • Hanka. A Wendish village story. Novella, 1889.
  • In the harbour. Roman, 1890.
  • Higher powers. Roman, 1891.
  • The salon fairy. Roman, 1891.
    • New edition under the title A frost fell. 1905.
  • The star of Mostar. Roman, 1892.
  • House Dodendorf. Novel, 3 volumes, 1894.
  • Through storm and weather. Novel, 1911.
  • Paulinenhof. 1914

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Siegrid Robaschik: AMALIE MARBY - "tailor-made" novels? In: Cottbus home calendar 2006. City administration Cottbus - press office, Historischer Heimatverein Cottbus (ed.), Cottbus 2006, pp. 89–90.
  2. ^ A b Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 4. 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 370 ( online , accessed December 26, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Siegrid Robaschik: Witch Lady Queen: Women of Niederlausitz in the time span of a millennium. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2003, ISBN 3-936092-72-9 , pp. 70-71.
  4. ^ Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen. Complete new typesetting of both volumes in one book. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8430-4451-6 , p. 385 ( online , accessed December 26, 2017).
  5. ^ Official Journal for the City of Cottbus 05/2007. May 26, 2007, p. 3 , accessed December 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Marby, Amalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marby, Luise Auguste Amalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1915
Place of death cottbus