Anne Charlotte Leffler

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Anne Charlotte Leffler (born October 1, 1849 in Stockholm , † October 21, 1892 in Naples ) was a Swedish writer .

Life

She began writing as a teenager, her first stories appearing in 1869 under the pseudonym Carlot . Her father had published it. After her marriage to G. Edgren in 1872, she began writing plays that attracted some attention. She published them anonymously out of consideration for her husband's public employment. The pieces were at the Royal Dramatic Theater Dramaten played in Stockholm. On the one hand Skådespelerskan (1873) (The Actress) and on the other pastor's adjuncts (1876) should be emphasized . She again took part in the performance of the first-mentioned piece without naming her name. So also in Elvan in 1880 .

In 1882 she published the work Ur lifvet (From life), which tells stories from the upper class of Sweden, under her own name. Several collections of stories were brought out under the same title. Other successes were Sanna Kvinnor (1883) (real women) and En Räddande engel (1883) (a saving angel). Many of her pieces were based on Henrik Ibsen's works, especially his Nora or Ein Puppenheim , and dealt with the protagonists' problems due to the disadvantaged position of women in society at the time. With this and with her striving for authenticity, she, like Ibsen, Sofja Kowalewskaja and others, broke with the conventions that had been in effect until then in the hope of being able to improve the situation. Leffler showed particular talent in the design of dialogues.

She separated from her husband in 1884 and moved to England . Here she came into contact with Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling . There she wrote in 1885 Hur man gör gott (be good). Together with Sofja Kowalewskaja , she wrote a drama Kampen för Lyckan (The Struggle for Happiness) in 1887 . In 1891 she wrote the comedies Familjelycka (Family Happiness ) and Den kärleken! (Love!) After her marriage to the Italian mathematician Pasquale del Pezzo , Duke of Cajanello. Her last work (1892) was a biography about her friend, the mathematician Sofja Kovalevskaya. Anne-Charlotte Leffler died of appendicitis in Naples in 1892 .

Many of her works have been translated into Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, German, English, Dutch, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian. Sanna Kvinnor can be considered the most successful work . It was performed three more times on Dramaten and was made into a film by Swedish television in 1974.

Anne Charlotte Leffler is the sister of the mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler .

Works

  • Elf. Acting in 3 acts . Based on the original Swedish manuscript. freely translated by Emil [Jak.] Jonas. R. Boll, Berlin 1883
  • Femininity and eroticism . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1892 ( collection of foreign novels )
  • Sentenced. A ball in the noble world. Two novels . S. Schwartz, Berlin 1893 ( collection of the best works of contemporary literature 1)
  • Sonja Kovalevsky , what I experienced together with her and what she told me about herself . Reclam, Leipzig 1894 ( Reclam's Universal Library 3297/3298)
  • A summer story. Novel. Leipzig 1895, online
  • From life . Translated from the Swedish by Ilse Mautner and Klara Mautner . Hillger, Berlin, Eisenach, Leipzig 1902 ( Kürschner's book treasure 283)
  • Three stories. Translated from Swedish by Luise Wolf . Reclam, Leipzig 1902 ( Reclam's Universal Library 4290)

literature

  • Hanes-Harvey Anne-Charlotte: Anne Charlotte Leffler Edgren, 1849-1892. True Women, Sweden , in: Katherine E. Kelly (Ed.): Modern Drama by Women, 1880s – 1930s: An International Anthology , London, New York 2005, pp. 23–53. (with translation of the piece and a bibliography)
  • Key Ellen: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Duchessa di Cajanello. Några biografiska meddelanden . Bonnier, Stockholm 1893.
  • Key Ellen: The fate of three women . - S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1908.
  • Maj Sylvan: Anne Charlotte Leffler. En kvinna finner sin väg . Biblioteksförlaget, Stockholm 1984 (Zugl. Univ. Diss. Stockholm 1984)
  • Anne Charlotte Leffler . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 29 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chushichi Tsuzuki: Eleanor Marx . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1981 ISBN 3-7678-0437-9 , p. 146 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Leffler, Anne Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leffler Edgren, Anne Charlotte; Carlot (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1892
Place of death Naples