Bertha Augusti

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Bertha Augusti ( née Schöler ; born June 2, 1827 in Cologne , † December 12, 1886 in Koblenz ) was a German writer .

Life

Bertha Augusti was born in 1827 as the daughter of the Justice Council Dr. Schöler was born in Cologne. In 1849 she married the district court assessor Karl Wilhelm Ernst Augusti and moved with him to Koblenz. The marriage has two children. Her husband, who worked as a judge at the royal district court in Koblenz, died in 1858.

Although she became interested in poetry at an early age, she did not begin to write and publish novels and short stories for girls until the years after her husband's death . Through her sister Caroline “Lina” Schöler she came into contact with Karl Marx and his wife Jenny , who visited the writer in 1877. Bertha Augusti died of cardiac paralysis in Koblenz in 1886.

Works

  • Field flowers. A bouquet of novels (1872)
  • Light and shadow. Stories. Kühtmann, Bremen 1876.
  • Life mosaic. Novella. Hallberger, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1878.
  • A fateful year. Novella. 1879. New edition 1989, Koblenz Contributions to History and Culture; [NF, 1]

ISBN 978-3-920388-04-5

  • The portrait. Novella (1881)
  • The stranger. Novella (1882)
  • Agnes von Flören (1882)
  • Souvenir sheets from the life of a German woman. Ahn, Cologne / Leipzig 1887.
  • Elisabeth. A story for young girls. Schreiber, Berlin 1888.

literature

  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in word & picture , Vol. 2. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, pp. 289–293.
  • Augusti, Bertha . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 474 ( digitized version ). - life data
  • Augusti, Bertha . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 23 ( digitized version ). - works
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 90-91.
  • Bertha Augusti: A fateful year. Newly edited, introduced and commented on by Heinz Monz . Görres, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-920388-04-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Augusti, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöler, Bertha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1886
Place of death Koblenz