Bertha Riedel-Ahrens

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Bertha Riedel-Ahrens (born September 16, 1850 in Lübeck , † after 1908 , pseudonym Silvio Lugano ) was a German writer . She wrote successful novels that have appeared in numerous German and foreign newspapers. In the context of entertainment literature at the turn of the century, her work stands out for its socially critical accents, in particular for its focus on the social position of women and their emancipation.

Life

Bertha Ahrens grew up in a middle-class family in Lübeck. There she attended the institute for the training of teachers of the preacher Peter Hermann Munzenberger . On the mediation of her older brother, she went to Brazil as an educator in 1869 and worked on a farm near Campos dos Goytacazes and in Rio de Janeiro , where she also accepted a position as a companion of a writer of Russian origin. There she married the German dentist AF Riedel. Her husband bought her a mulatto at the slave market to relieve her household in Pereira Barreto (?). In 1882 the couple returned to Germany. The man lost his fortune, went back to South America looking for a living, but died in Montevideo . Bertha Riedel-Ahrens stayed with the two (or three?) Children in Germany and earned her living by teaching languages, as a teacher at the industrial school in Halle and with her literary work. She turned to theosophy .

Works (selection)

  • The father's secret. Berlin 1890.
  • Unveiled women's hearts. Leipzig 1883.
  • Rolandsholm. 2 vols. Berlin 1886–1887.
  • Hero souls. Berlin 1888.
  • Tropical Nights, 2 vols., Berlin 1888.
  • The queen of the night. Berlin 1890.
  • Two women. 1891.
  • In the gray castle. Berlin 1892.
  • Esther Holm . Rendsburger Wochenblatt, 1901.

literature

  • Entry. In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Lugano, Silvio . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 526 ( digitized version ).
  • Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres: Respectability and deviance: nineteenth-century German women writers and the ambiguity of representation. Chicago u. a .: University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. 292 f.
  • Gudrun Wedel: autobiographies of women: a lexicon. Vienna, Böhlau, 2010, p. 693 f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gudrun Wedel: Lessons between work and profession: Insights into the life of autobiographers from the 19th century. Vienna, Böhlau 2000, p. 283
  2. ^ Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon. Vienna, Böhlau, 2010, p. 693
personal data
SURNAME Riedel-Ahrens, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lugano, Silvio (pseudonym); Bertha Ahrens (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH after 1908