Auguste Meixner

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Auguste Meixner (born October 3, 1860 in Weilheim ; † after 1934) was a German children's and youth author.

Life

Auguste Meixner is also known as Auguste Hundt because she married Christoph Otto Hundt around 1890. But she continued to use her maiden name for her children's books. You lived in Munich . Her first children's book was published in Theo in 1889 . Stroefer's art publisher . It was furnished with six illustrations by Victor Thomas. However, the dedication is particularly interesting:

" Dedicated to my dearest patron and friend, the great poet Hermann Lingg, with great admiration for his immortal works and with unlimited gratitude by the author "

How Auguste Meixner came into contact with the much older writer Hermann Lingg , who also lived in Munich , is unclear - according to the dedication, it can be assumed that he promoted her and perhaps paved her way into writing. She seems to have moved among the artistic circles in Munich, because her husband contributed the illustrations for her second children's book. She probably gave up writing children's books because she had to look after her two daughters. In Kürschner's literary calendar of 1934 she still appears as a living person, so she must have died afterwards.

Awards

Auguste Meixner's second children's book, Fresh Green , bore the following dedication:

" Dedicated to Her Royal Highness, Princess Ludwig of Bavaria, in deep reverence by the author "

Here one should not see an ironic feminization of the regent, but the dedication refers to the born Archduchess Marie Therese of Austria-Este , the wife of the later last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III. It was customary to name a woman after her husband's name and at the time of writing Marie Therese was the 'Princess Ludwig of Bavaria'. Auguste Meixner received "a letter of thanks and appreciation from Prince Regent Luitpold for the work dedicated to Princess Marie Therese".

Works

  • From an eventful youth. Six stories for children aged 8-12 , Munich 1888.
  • Fresh green. Six stories for young people , Munich 1889.
  • Small and large friends. Stories and verses , Munich 1889.
  • Garden joys , Munich 1890.
  • Ringel-Ringel-Reihe , Munich 1891.
  • What you want! Stories and rhymes , Munich 1892.
  • In the twilight. Stories, fairy tales and rhymes , Munich 1893.
  • The Easter Bunny and other stories , Munich 1895 (2nd edition 1900).
  • The goose boy and other stories , Munich 1901.
  • For funny little people. Cheerful verses and humorous occasional poems in Upper Bavarian and Swabian dialect for declamation for children , Munich 1902 (2nd edition 1902, 3rd edition 1903).
  • In der Umfuhr and other stories , Munich 1903.

literature

  • Heinrich Klenz (ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for 1904 , Leipzig 1904, Sp. 588.
  • Martha Schach: Bavaria's Queens , Munich / Zurich 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Klenz (ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for 1904 , Leipzig 1904, Sp. 588.
  2. ↑ Martha Schach: Bayerns Königinnen , Munich / Zurich 2005, p. 314.
personal data
SURNAME Meixner, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hundt, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of children's and young people's books
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilheim
DATE OF DEATH after 1934