Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher

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Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher (born December 5, 1840 in Wolfegg , † 1904 ) was a German writer .

Life

Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher was born as the daughter of the senior teacher Joseph Hasslacher in Upper Swabia . She received an education that was good for her time. After attending elementary school, from 1853 to 1856 an apprenticeship in the daughter boarding school of the Wurmsbach monastery near Rapperswil on Lake Zurich . In 1868 she married the surgeon and spa doctor Akermann († 1895) in Bad Berg near Stuttgart. Her first literary attempts date from the 1870s, when she met the writer Count Stanislaus Grabowsky . He encouraged her to become literary.

Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher wrote numerous novels, but was also active as a playwright . Her play The Landwehr Man's Dream was performed in 1896 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Franco-Prussian War in various southern German theaters. Other smaller novels, short stories and humoresques appeared in magazines such as the Hausfreund or Sterne und Blumen .

Works

  • The Forest Queen (1876)
  • The bride of the rebels. Novel. Translated from the Italian (1879)
  • Do not take revenge. Drama in 5 acts. Greiner, Stuttgart 1881.
  • Buried in the madhouse (1887)
  • Between two stools! or the blue domino (no year)
  • To the mother's heart (1894)
  • Landwehrmann's Dream (manuscript 1875, published 1896)

literature

  • Akermann-Hasslacher, Mrs. Bertha . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 5 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 39.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 3 ( Repertories on German literary history 9).
  • Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , p. 324 ( results of women's research 27), (also: Amherst, Univ. Of Massachusetts, Diss., 1990).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrichs corrected the often given year of birth 1846 to 1840.
  2. ↑ No copy can be found
  3. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Akermann-Hasslacher, Bertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfegg
DATE OF DEATH 1904