Anna Behrens

Anna Behrens , b. Litzmann, (born April 9, 1850 in Halle (Saale) , † after 1913) was a German writer .

Life

She was born as the daughter of the professor of medicine Carl Conrad Theodor Litzmann in Halle, but as a child she moved with her parents to Kiel , where she grew up with her siblings and spent her youth. Her parents' house became the "center of intellectually stimulating sociability". Up to the age of 12 she was educated by private tutors and later briefly attended a girls' school. She had a long friendship with the poet Klaus Groth . It was also he who taught her literary history.

In 1875 she married the professor of mineralogy Theodor Heinrich Behrens , who taught in Delft . She went with him to Delft, where she lived until his death in 1905. As a widow, she finally moved to Bonn and began to work as a writer after a volume of her poems had appeared in 1897.

Works

• To the light. Poems. 1897.
• Hans Peter and other stories. Schwetschke, Berlin 1905
• From Alt-Büsum. A human life. Heinrich Theodor Behrens. Ruhfus, Dortmund 1907. ( digitized version )

literature

• Behrens (-Litzmann), Anna . In: 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. 169–170.
• Behrens, Anna . In: 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. 19.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brümmer, p. 169.
2. ↑ No copy can be found