Anna Knight

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Anna Ritter (1899).

Anna Ritter , née Nuhn (born February 23, 1865 in Coburg , † October 31, 1921 in Marburg ), was a German poet and writer .

Life

Anna Ritter went to New York City with her father, an exporter, as a toddler . In 1869 she returned to Germany and attended school in Kassel until 1870 . She then went to the Moravian boarding school in Montmirail in French-speaking Switzerland for two years . After completing her apprenticeship, she returned to Kassel and married Rudolf Ritter, who would later become government councilor, here in 1884.

Together with him she moved from Kassel first to Cologne , later to Berlin and Münster . Rudolf Ritter died in 1893 and she moved to Frankenhausen in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . In 1898 she published her first collection of poems, followed by another in 1900. In the same year she worked for the journal Die Gartenlaube , which had previously published her poems. Her novella Margharita appeared in 1902 , and a travel diary followed later. The best-known of her poems is "Think you, I saw the Christ Child".

From the Christ Child

Guess I saw the Christ Child!
It came out of the forest, the little cap full of snow,
with a frozen nose.
His little hands hurt,
because he was carrying a sack that was really heavy,
dragging and pounding after him -
what was in it, you want to know?
Your nose, your rogue -
do you think it would be open, the sack?
Tied up to the top!
But there was certainly something beautiful in it:
it smelled like apples and nuts!

She belonged to the group of authors and writers who worked on the literary design of the Stollwerck collector's pictures and scrapbooks on behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck . Other authors were the poet "T.Resa" alias Theresa Gröhe, geb. Pauli-Greiffenberg, the zoologist Professor Paul Matschie , the writer Hans Eschelbach , the journalist Julius Rodenberg , the writer Joseph von Lauff , the poet Carl Hermann Busse , the novelist Gustav Falke and others. v. a. m.

Works

  • Poems , Liebeskind, Leipzig 1898. ( digitized version ), 27. – 29. Edition Cotta, Stuttgart, Berlin 1911
  • Liberation. New poems . 4th ed., Cotta, Stuttgart 1900, 15th and 16th ed. Ibid 1919.

Settings

  • Hanna Wawrzyk: Warning (song)
  • Elisabeth Kuyper: Warning Op. 17 (1922)
  • The Kassel composer Luise Greger set Ritters' two poems " I want, I would be the woman of the storm " and " Now rises from blue depths " (1903).
  • The Luxembourg composer Helen Buchholtz set the following poems by Anna Ritter to music for voice and piano: " The envious moon" , " I believe, dear darling ..." , " Loneliness" , " In silent night" , " O stay with me" , " Pythia " ," Sleep, oh sleep " ," Bad story "," Dream luck "," And I have such great longing "," Folk song "," And the lilac smelled around the wooden bench "," Like a frenzy ". Buchholtz set Anna Ritter's " Das Ringlein sprang entzwei " and " Der Weg zum Glück " to music for the choir .
  • Clara Faisst set the poems " I believe, dear darling ... " and " Didn't look back once " in her 5 songs, Op. 6 as well as the poem " Die Insel der Vergessenheit" in its 2 songs, op. 8.
  • In the 4 songs, Op. In 30 the Croatian composer Dora Pejačević set the poems " Ein Schrei ", " Wie ein Rausch ", " I believe, dear darling ... " and " Traumglück " to music .
  • Numerous poems of Ritter were set to music by Max Reger , for example the 6 poems by Anna Ritter, Op. 31 , " In the secret night ", " Sun rain ", " From kissing! ".
  • Other well-known composers such as Jean Sibelius (" Rose Song ", Op. 50) or Karol Szymanowski (" That Midsummer Night's Done ", Op. 22) used Anna Ritter's poems as the textual basis for song compositions.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anna Ritter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Anna Ritter  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures, Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
  2. ^ In: Ignaz Herbst (Ed.): Music anthology of the German-Austrian Authors' Association , Vienna
  3. ↑ Danielle Roster: Helen Buchholtz. In: MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet. Prof. Dr. Beatrix Borchard, March 21, 2012, accessed June 16, 2020 (eng).
  4. ↑ MUGI - Music and Gender on the Internet. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Category: Ritter, Anna - IMSLP. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuhn, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1921
Place of death Marburg