Anna Hottner-Grefe

Anna Hottner-Grefe (born March 17, 1867 in Vienna ; † February 18, 1946 there ) was an Austrian writer. She also wrote under the pseudonyms AG Ostheim , Georg Hellmann , Nora Welten , Robert Schönberg and Hubert Trexler .

Life

She was born in 1867 as the daughter of the landscape painter Conrad Grefe (1823–1907) in Vienna, where she grew up and was educated. Hottner soon turned to writing, encouraged by Jean Jacques David and Vinzenz Chiavacci . The first stories appeared in the Wiener Tageblatt in 1888 . As a result, she published numerous works in various magazines, including the Neue Freie Presse , the Neuen Wiener Tageblatt , the Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung , the Neue Wiener Journal and various youth magazines such as the Österreichische Jugend-Zeitung and the Jugendlaube . From 1894 to 1896 she was in charge of the “only larger, progressive women's newspaper in Vienna, the monthly Frauenleben ”. For a time she was vice-chairman of the "Association of Working Women". In 1896 a fairy tale Grefes was included in the fairy tale book Der Jugend Wunderborn .

On February 24, 1895 she married the magistrate Franz Hottner, her childhood friend. The family supported her in the 1920s by publishing numerous dime and romance novels. She died in Vienna in 1946. Numerous romance novels Hottner-Grefes appeared after her death in the form of novel newspapers and magazines, for example as "Gloria-Roman", in the "Romanzeitung für alle" and as part of the "Novel series for relaxation and entertainment".

Hottner-Grefe's granddaughter Erika Danneberg (1922–2007) also became a writer.

Works (selection)

• Commemorative book of the most outstanding men and women in Austria from the beginning of the reign of the Habsburg dynasty to the present day. (Ed. And edited by Conrad Grefe) 1893.
• Dark forces. The Wila. 2 stories. Hillger, Leipzig / Berlin 1910.
• Dead who live. Detective novel. Wessel, Lübeck 1923.
• Juliette von Schönau, the natural daughter of an emperor. Novel. Freya, Heidenau 1925.
• Marquise of Montespan, the demon of France. Novel. Freya, Heidenau 1926.
• Margarita-Roxelane or: From the slave market to the throne of the Ottomans. Freya, Heidenau 1926.
• Princess Katja Dolgoruky the wife of Alexander II. Roman. Freya, Heidenau 1926.
• Sophie Arnould, the 18th century prima donna. Freya, Heidenau 1926.
• Karoline von Braunschweig, the uncrowned Queen of England. Freya, Heidenau 1926.
• Françoise de Flaville: the first love of Emperor Josef II. Freya, Heidenau 1927.
• Mary Anne Wells, the flower girl of London. Freya, Heidenau 1827.
• Princess Elisabeth Tarakanow, the rival of the Tsarina. Freya, Heidenau 1928.
• Agnese von Seibelstorff. A tragic fate from the Turkish wars. Freya, Heidenau 1928.
• Marya, the great spy, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Kowalski. Freya, Heidenau 1928.
• Juanna di Perez, the rose of Lisbon. Freya, Heidenau 1928.
• Margit, the love of the young emperor Franz Joseph I. Freya, Heidenau 1829.
• Susann d'Obrie, the heather queen. Freya, Heidenau 1829.
• Jakobäa von Bayern, the regent of the Netherlands. Freya, Heidenau 1930.
• Florica Vanescu. The demon nder player Freya, Heidenau 1931.
• The broken heart. Freya, Heidenau 1931.
• Asta Leron, the snake queen. Freya, Heidenau 1932. (New edition 1947.)
• Young marriage. Freya, Heidenau 1932.
• People fight for their happiness. Freya, Heidenau 1934.
• The great love of the young Sibyl. A woman's fate. Five Towers Publishing House, Halle 1934.
• Hearts in need. Freya, Heidenau 1935.
• The heart wins. Freya, Heidenau 1936.
• Bettina masters life. Freya, Heidenau 1937.
• A woman full of love. Original novel. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1939.
• Sybillens love spring. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1939.
• The puppeteer girl. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1940.
• A girl's fate. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1940.
• The actress's daughter. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1941.
• ... and I saw you again. Sonnen-Verlag, Vienna 1940.
• Vera conquers happiness. Gritsch, Vienna 1947.
• A great love. Gritsch, Vienna 1948.
• Fights of the heart. Novel of a young marriage. Lehning, Hanover 1948.
• Fortunately won through. Sonnenverlag, Vienna 1948.
• The bride of death. Artist novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Harmony of the soul. Fateful novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Sounds of love. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Song of life. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Winding paths. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Confusions of life. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Fairy tale of happiness. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Threads of fate. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• 1949: his best comrade. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1949.
• Drive to happiness. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1950.
• Power of fate. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1950.
• Heart tones. Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1950.
• For a love's sake Romance novel. Eismann, Vienna 1950.
• And all out of love ... Sun publishing house, Vienna 1950.
• The way to luck. Fateful novel. 1950.
• And you will be mine, Ulrike. Gloria-Verlag, Vienna 1956.
• Don't hesitate, Gretl! Romance novel from the mountain world. Gloria-Verlag, Vienna 1957.

literature

• Hottner-Grefe, 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, p. 299.
• Hottner, 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. 140.
• Hottner-Grefe, Anna . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 379 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Hottner-Grefe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anna Hottner-Grefe in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pataky, p. 380.
2. ↑ No copy can be found