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Antonie Jüngst (born June 13, 1843 in Werne ; † June 8, 1918 in Münster ) was a Westphalian writer and poet .

Life

Antonie Jüngst was a great-granddaughter of law professor Wolrad Burchardi . After the untimely death of her parents, she came into the family of the Justice Councilor Crone, who first lived in Rheine and later in Münster. She was sent to the Ursulines at St. Leonhard in Aachen for training. Back in Münster, she received many suggestions, especially from the poet and philosopher Christoph Bernhard Schlueter , the friend of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff .

With her foster parents, after the death of her foster father alone with her mother, she made long trips to Switzerland, Thuringia and Italy. She translated these suggestions into poetry. She wrote poems, short stories and epics. On her 2nd trip to Rome in the spring of 1899 she was allowed to write her work "Roma aeterna" in a private audience with Pope Leo XIII. hand over. After the death of her foster mother in 1894, she worked in the charitable field in a leading position in welfare. In December 1917, she suffered a stroke that tied her to the bed. She did not survive another stroke.

Connection to Werne

Antonie Jüngst is the only honorary citizen of the city of Werne. A memorial plaque was placed on the house where she was born in Steinstrasse. In her honor, a street in Werne was named Jüngststrasse . A picture of the writer hangs in the boardroom of the Old Town Hall. A showcase in the Karl Pollender City Museum is also dedicated to her.

In a one-and-a-half-hour city tour on the topic of famous women in Werne - the history of Werner women from the end of the Middle Ages to the 20th century , the Werne Tourist Office and the Museum Association leave the life and time of Antonie in addition to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who is about a generation older Coming back to life recently.

On the 100th anniversary of her death in 2018, the Stadtmuseum and Werne Marketing are dedicating an online project to the life and work of the writer, who went down in the history of the city of Werne as an honorary citizen.

Works

• Conradin, the Staufe , epic poem in 20 songs. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1883. 353 pp.
• The death of Baldur , epic poem. Münster, Schöningh, 1886.
• Under the crook , a song from old times. Paderborn, Schöningh, 1889.
• Searched and found . An old lady’s diary sheets. Paderborn, Schöningh, 1890.
• Reluctantly . Cologne, Bachem, 1892.
• Our Father . Paderborn, Schöningh, 1892.
• The flotsam of life , collected novellas. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1898.
• Roma Aeterna. Mood pictures in poetry and prose from the eternal city. Munster, Schöningh, 1900.
• The storm's song , poem.
• Our Lady von Vinnenberg , Münster 1906 (self-published by the monastery with the imprimatur of Felix von Hartmann as Vic. Genlis)
• Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - a Westphalian poet . Sketch. (Sine loco et anno) 16 pp.
• Libretto for the oratorio Quo vadis by Feliks Nowowiejski , world premiere in 1909 in Amsterdam.

Web links

• Literature by and about Antonie Jüngst in the catalog of the German National Library
• Antonie Jüngst in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Antonie Jüngst collection in the University and State Library of Münster