Anna Goetze (author)

Anna Marie Sophie Goetze (born August 3, 1869 in Schloen , Mecklenburg ; † March 17, 1943 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German writer and art critic.

Living conditions

Anna Goetze attended a teacher’s seminar in Schwerin , which she left after graduating to travel to Switzerland and England for several years. From 1887 to 1897 she lived in Munich and lived with her cousin Sophie Gallwitz in Schwabing . She must have moved to Bremen around 1900 , where she moved in with her cousin again around 1907, although she did not share her feminist positions. From 1909 she lived with the interior designer Elisabeth von Baczko and her sister, the photographer Felicitas von Baczko at Obernstrasse 40/42. From 1920 to 1922 she and Carl Weidemeyer directed the Graphisches Kabinett in Bremen, a branch of the Berlin art dealer Israel Ber Neumann . In 1933 she moved to her home in Mecklenburg with Felicitas von Baczko.

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In her early years she devoted herself primarily to writing, in 1890 she published a volume of fairy tales and dreams with childhood memories, and around 1912 she wrote a play The Wonderful . Around this time she turned to the features section and commented on current art events in Bremen for the Bremer Tageblatt . In doing so, she represented the ideals of the reform movement as expressed in the products of the United Workshops or the exhibits at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition of 1914.

• At the edge of the forest. Fairy tales and dreams , Wismar 1890
• Snow white and rose red. A fairy tale game in five pictures , Bremen: Boesking, undated (around 1900–1910)

literature

• Nils Aschenbeck: Time for everything beautiful. Anna Goetze, writer and art critic. In: Weser-Kurier , March 17, 1993, special page 19.