Amely Bölte

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Amely Bölte

Amely Bölte , actually Amalie Bölte (born October 6, 1811 in Rehna as Amalie (Charlotte Elise Marianne) Bölte ; † November 15, 1891 in Wiesbaden ) was a German writer .

Life

Amely Bölte was born as one of (at least) six children of the lawyer and Mayor of Rehna Johann Christoph Bölte († 1831) and his wife Amalia Louisa, born in Güstrow . Tarnow (* 1785), born in the north-west Mecklenburg town of Rehna and baptized on October 13, 1811 in the town church there. The later mayor of Hagenow , Ernst Bölte, was her older brother. The writer and translator Fanny Tarnow was her maternal aunt.

From 1822 there were repeated long stays in (Bad) Doberan with Fanny Tarnow, which made a great impression on Bölte. In 1825 she got engaged at the request of her father, who did not want her to be 'educated' like her aunt. But she broke this engagement in 1827, also due to Tarnow's influence.

Amely Bölte first became a teacher so that she could stand on her own two feet. From 1828 she was employed in the household of Chamberlain von Könnemann in Pritzier , where, in addition to teaching, she completed her own education. In the long run, however, she did not fulfill this task. In 1839 she went to England, where she studied English and worked literary for German magazines. In London she frequented the house of the writer Thomas Carlyle . For a living, she first translated novels. But she also began to write herself, initially under a male pseudonym . In 1848 from London in Leipzig she published her first work Tales from the Portfolio of a German in London . This tale made her known. On the mediation of Karl August Varnhagen von Ense she became a correspondent for the Morgenblatt of the Cotta publishing house .

In 1852 she returned to Germany, settled in Dresden and began publishing numerous works. These were primarily biographical novels and historical images of the time, but also contained topics dedicated to the question of women . In 1866 she made trips to Paris and Rome . She then lived temporarily in Karlsruhe and then from 1879 in Wiesbaden , where she died on November 15, 1891.

Works (selection)

In her work, Bölte described the life of higher society in England, and also copied the style of the "governess novel" by Charlotte Brontë . Later she preferred to write biographical and historical novels. She is counted among the socially critical authors who wanted to describe and improve the situation of working women through their work.

  • Luise or Die Deutsche in England . Narrative. 1846
  • Tales from the portfolio of a German in London , Leipzig 1848
  • Visit book of a German doctor in London . Two volumes. Berlin 1852 (digitized version made available by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10124385_00001.html )
  • A German pallet in London . Narrative. 1853
  • Men and women . Novellas. Two volumes. 1854
  • The forester's house . Novel. 1855
  • A good supply . Novel. Two volumes. 1856
  • Love and marriage . Stories. Hamburg 1857
  • Mrs. von Staël . Novel. Three volumes. 1859
  • Maria Antonia or Dresden 100 years ago . Time image. 1860
  • Winkelmann or: From Stendal to Rome . Cultural-historical novel. Three volumes. Berlin 1861
  • Juliane von Krüdener and Emperor Alexander . Time image. 1861
  • Vittorio Alfieri and his fourth love or: Turin and Florence . Historical time image. Two volumes. Berlin 1862
  • Women's training course . 1862
  • Harriet Wilson . Novel. 1862
  • Modern characters . Three volumes. Vienna 1863
  • Franziska von Hohenheim . A morganatic marriage. Novel. Two volumes. 1863
  • The coat children . Novel. Two volumes. 1864
  • The Edelhof . Play. 1865
  • Fanny Tarnow . A picture of life. Berlin 1865
  • On and on . Novel. 1867
  • The Guelph Bride . Novel. 1867
  • Striving is life . Three volumes. 1868
  • Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia . Historical novel. 1868
  • A throne and no money . Novel. Two volumes. 1869
  • Sunflower . Novella. 1869
  • The Colonel's daughters . Novel. Two volumes. 1872
  • Elisabeth or a German Jane Eyre . Novel. Two volumes. Vienna 1873
  • Where is it going? . Novel. Two volumes. 1874
  • New women's training course . 1876 ​​(2nd edition. Leipzig 1877)
  • The fallen . Narrative. 1882

literature

  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Bölte, Amalie Charlotte Elise Marianne . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 92-95.
  • Bölte, Amely . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 3: Leaf Beetles - Chimbote. 4th, completely revised edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig et al. 1886, p. 173 f.
  • Arnaldo Di Benedetto: Genio o talento forzato? Vittorio Alfieri as author of a personaggio. In: Arnaldo Di Benedetto: Il dandy e il sublime. Nuovi studi su Vittorio Alfieri (= Lettere italiane. Saggi. 58). Olschki, Firenze 2003, ISBN 88-222-5206-3 , pp. 137-160.

Web links

Commons : Amely Bölte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Amely Bölte  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Twelve siblings according to Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945 . dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 36
  2. ↑ Baptism entry in the Rehna church book.
  3. ↑ During her time in England see Ursula Schmidt-Brümmer: Between Gouvernantentum and writers: Amalie Bölte in England. In: Peter Alter, Rudolf Muhs (ed.): Exiles and other Germans in Fontanes London. (Charlotte Jolles on her 85th birthday) (= Stuttgart papers on German studies. No. 331 = Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. Vol. 66). Heinz, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88099-335-1 , pp. 198-224.
  4. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945 . dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 37
personal data
SURNAME Bölte, Amely
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bölte, Amalie (real name); Bölte, Amalie Charlotte Elise Marianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehna
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1891
Place of death Wiesbaden