Auguste Hauschner

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Auguste Hauschner

Auguste Hauschner (born as Auguste Sobotka February 12, 1850 in Prague , Austrian Empire ; died April 10, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German writer. She also published under the pseudonym Auguste Montag and is considered an important representative of German-speaking authors in Prague. In her work she repeatedly dealt with socially critical issues.

Life

Auguste Sobotka was born the daughter of a merchant with Jewish roots and grew up in Prague. At the age of 14 she came to Berlin and attended the Jesenius boarding school there for four years. After her return to Prague, she married the manufacturer and painter Benno Hauschner in 1871 . With him she moved to Berlin in the mid-1870s. Her apartment in the Tiergarten district developed in the following years, especially after the death of her husband in 1890, into an important salon for Berlin artists. In addition to her cousin Fritz Mauthner , with whom she was in close correspondence, Gustav Landauer , Maximilian Harden , Max Liebermann and Max Brod also frequented her Berlin salon .

Hauschner began her literary work in the 1880s. She penned numerous short stories and novels in which she was one of the first women writers to deal with the question of the social position of women and deal with questions of Jewish identity. Her most important work is the novel Die Familie Lowositz (1908, two volumes), which was continued in 1910 with "Rudolf and Camilla". In it Hauschner draws an (autobiographical) study of the milieu of the German-Jewish upper middle class in Prague and Berlin.

Hauschner was an opponent of the World War and a pacifist from the start . She promoted socialist , anarchist and feminist actors and projects.

Works (selection)

Heinrich Vogeler's drawing for the novel Between Times , 1906
  • Between the Times , 1906
  • Death of the Lion (novella from the time of Rudolf II ), 1916
  • The Day of Atonement , 1918
  • The settlement ( Masurian novel), 1918
  • The Cure , 1921
  • Letters to Auguste Hauschner were edited by Martin Beradt and Lotte Bloch-Zavrel (1929)

literature

  • Auguste Hauschner. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 216 f. (Direct links on p. 216 , p. 217 ).
  • Hella-Sabrina Lange: "We are all standing between two times". On the work of the writer Auguste Hauschner (1850-1924). Essen: Klartext 2006. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. 1.) ISBN 3-89861-583-9 . Table of contents of the DNB
  • Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Stuttgart 2000: JBMetzler / Poeschel Verlag
  • Hauschner, Auguste. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 10: Güde – Hein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22690-X , pp. 248-262.
  • Veronika Jičínská: Bohemian themes with Fritz Mauthner and Auguste Hauschner . Czech Republic / Ústí nad Labem 2014, (= Acta Universitatis Purkynianae, Facultatis Philosophicae Studia Germanica, Series Monographica 3) ISBN 978-80-7414-692-3
  • Birgit Seemann: “One human race above all peoples” - Auguste Hauschner, writer between Prague and Berlin. In: Renate Heuer (ed.): Hidden readings: new interpretations of Jewish-German texts from Heine to Rosenzweig; in memory of Norbert Altenhofer . Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003 ISBN 3-593-37377-7 pp. 187-203.
  • Jana Mikota: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: Auguste Hauschner . In: Medaon 3 (2009), 5 ( online ).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ according to other sources she was born in 1852
personal data
SURNAME Hauschner, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sobotka, Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1924
Place of death Berlin