Anna Ahrens (writer, 1865)

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Anna Ahrens , b. Julie Henriette Johanne Wilhelmine Helene Anna Seemann (born April 4, 1865 in Schwerin , † January 10, 1946 in Warnemünde ) was a German writer . She published under the pseudonym Anna Pilot .

Life

Anna Ahrens was born in 1865 as the daughter of the leaseholder Wilhelm Seemann (1822–1881) and his wife Helene, b. Straube (approx. 1837–1912), born in Schwerin. The baptism took place on April 30th of the same year. The teacher Johannes Straube from Lübeck (maternal grandfather) and the pensioner's wife Julie Seemann from Nieklitz (paternal grandmother) were present as sponsors from the family .

She spent her childhood in Rostock and was prepared for the teaching profession by her mother, who worked as an educator in a private school after her husband's death. Ahrens worked as an educator in northern Germany until she got married.

In Rostock she married the ophthalmologist August (Berthold Ernst) Ahrens (1865-1896) on July 5, 1893 and after his death moved to Warnemünde with her mother and only daughter Helene (born 1895) . There she lived first in the house Wachtlerstrasse 1, then in the house Moltkestrasse 6 and later in Strandweg 14. She first founded a daughter boarding school there, which she later converted into a guesthouse.

On October 6, 1909, Anna Ahrens married the Bützow senior teacher Rudolf Sues (born 1877) in Warnemünde. The marriage was legally divorced in November 1913. She gave up the name Sues again and continued to live in Warnemünde, where she ran the "Heimat" guesthouse and the "Poseidon" hostel until her death.

Works

  • Warnemünde stories. Novellas. Sattler, Braunschweig 1899.
  • Sea thorn poems. Warnemünde 1908.
  • Yesterday's people. A family story. Kaufungen, Rostock 1914.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 37-38.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Registration of August Ahrens in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahrens, Anna Julie Henriette Johanna Wilhelmine (full name); Seemann, Anna (maiden name); Pilot, Anna (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1946
Place of death Warnemünde