Charlotte Niese

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Charlotte Niese around 1920
Charlotte Niese 1912

Charlotte Niese (born June 7, 1854 in Burg auf Fehmarn , Duchy of Holstein , † December 8, 1935 in Altona ) was a German writer , local poet and teacher .

Life

Charlotte Niese was born as the daughter of the classical philologist and theologian Emil August Niese. Her mother Benedicte Marie Niese was born in Matthiessen. In 1869 she moved to Altona. Charlotte passed the exam to become a teacher at secondary schools in Eckernförde and taught as a private tutor in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein since 1866 , in the Rhine province and as a boarding school teacher in Montreux . Then she moved in 1881 to her now widowed mother and grandfather in Plön and began to publish her own prose texts, initially under the male pseudonym Lucian Bürger. At first she also taught in Ascheberg until she could make a living from her work as an author.

In 1884 she settled in the city of Altona, where relatives such as her uncle Heinrich Christoph Niese lived. In 1888 she moved to Ottensen , which became Altona district in 1889. She no longer needed to work as a teacher, because Charlotte Niese became one of the most famous local writers in Holstein .

She was not only committed to improving the educational and professional opportunities of women in her entire literary works, but was also temporarily head of the local branch of the Association of North German Women's Associations in her adopted home Altona. But although as a child she had experienced for herself how her six brothers (the ancient historian Benedikt Niese was one of them) all received a higher education and embarked on scientific careers, while the father described this - in keeping with the spirit of the time - for her and her sister Ultimately, just sneeze the social limits of women. To actively work to overcome them, as the social democratic women's rights activist Alma Wartenberg , who lived just a few minutes' walk away , did not correspond to her bourgeois-conservative world and role image. Her “most political” public statement was the signing of a protest letter against the establishment of a tram line through her residential street (1904).

Charlotte Niese died in 1935 in her long-standing “Poetenheim am Philosophenweg” and was buried in the neighboring cemetery in Altona-Ottensen, Bernadottestrasse cemetery.

Awards and honors

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Preferred subjects in her oeuvre were events that were rich in detail, highly romanticized and often designed as historical travelogues, such as the fate of noble emigrants in the person of the Comtesse de Genlis in Altona after the French Revolution or the meeting of the Swedish Countess Sibylle Cederstroem with her compatriot, the Count Stenbock when he had Altona burned down in 1713 in the 2nd Northern War . In addition, she also repeatedly dealt with Low German legendary figures ( Klabautermann ) and the maritime milieu of her living environment (e.g. about the fisherman's boy Fiete from Oevelgönne ).

One focus was her numerous novels for young people and girls, which increasingly found their way into school books in the first quarter of the 20th century.

She labeled many of her works with the subtitle “for the people”, by which she understood morally and religiously edifying literature . According to M. Dierks, this conversation reading was “not very demanding”. A great success was “Das Lagerkind”, which takes place in the Thirty Years War and tells the fate of a young aristocratic foundling who grows up in the entourage of a mercenary army until she finds her family again. This story was based on Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus .

The city archivist Paul Theodor Hoffmann describes her narrative technique as "the stamina with which she describes less than that she lets people experience the environment vividly" and her style as "carried by calm indulgence, gentle irony and kind hearted kindness" .

Charlotte Niese wrote a total of 60 novels and volumes of short stories.

  • Cajus Rungholt. 17th century novel. (under the pseudonym "Lucian Bürger", 1886)
  • Philipp Reiff's fates. Story from the 16th century. (under a pseudonym, 1886)
  • On half-blurred tracks. A family story. (under a pseudonym, 1888)
  • Stories for the people (under real names, 1890)
  • Pictures and sketches from America (under a pseudonym, 1891)
  • From Danish times. Pictures and sketches (under real names, memories of her childhood in Burg, 2 volumes, 1892/1894)
  • Baby Gretel - one of the youngest. Story for young girls (1893)
  • The very youngest. Story for young girls (1895)
  • Light and shadow. A story of Hamburg (1895)
  • Erika. From the Life of an Only Daughter (1896)
  • Stories from Holstein (1896)
  • The brown Marenz and other stories (1896)
  • The trio. Story for young girls (1898)
  • On the heath (novel, 1898)
  • The Heir (narrative, 1899)
  • The past - a story from the time of emigrants (1902)
  • The Klabunkerstrasse. Novel (1904)
  • Master Ludwigsen. Mr. Meier's Hand (Two Tales, 1904)
  • Philipp Reiff's fates and other stories. Stories for the People (1904)
  • God's ways. Stories for the People (1904)
  • George (1905)
  • Revenstorf's Daughter and Other Stories (1905)
  • Around Christmas Time (1905)
  • At Sandberghof (novel, 1906)
  • Five selected short stories (1907)
  • Remote people. Little Stories (1907)
  • People spring (narration, 1907)
  • The golden butterfly. Lena Suhr's cup cabinet (1907)
  • From the youth country (story, 1908)
  • Maturity period (narrative, 1908)
  • City I Live In (1908)
  • Minette by Söhlenthal (Roman, 1909)
  • What Michael Schneidewind experienced as a boy (1909)
  • Roman pilgrims (novel, 1910)
  • My friend Kaspar and other stories (1911)
  • All kinds of summer guests and other stories (1911)
  • From difficult days. From Hamburg's French times (1911)
  • The old and the young (novel, 1912)
  • Guests and strangers and other stories (1912)
  • All-too-sinners (novel, 1912)
  • Under the yoke of the Corsican . Folk play in five acts (1913)
  • Ottony von Kelchberg's diary (novel, 1913)
  • Lazy Tito. A story from America (1913)
  • Mad Flinsheim and two other short stories (1914)
  • The Witch of Mayen (novel, 1914)
  • The camp child. Story from the German War (1914)
  • Barbarian Daughters (World War II story for female youth, 1915)
  • Of those who stayed at home (narrative, 1915)
  • When the moon shone in Dorotheen's room (story, 1918)
  • Back then! Novel (1919)
  • A broken heart and other stories. Stories for the People (1919)
  • About the gentleman and his niece. History of a Woman's Life (1919)
  • All kinds of fates. From the time of emigration (1919)
  • Aunt Ida and the others (novel, 1919)
  • Collaboration on: The wrong Christmas trees. 2 Christmas Stories (1920)
  • Tilo Brand and his time (novel, 1922)
  • Am Gartenweg, A Story of Clever and Foolish People (1922)
  • Old and young love. From the Days of Mad Rex (novel, 1922)
  • Around Christmas Time and Other Tales (1923)
  • Of yesterday and the day before yesterday - memoirs (1924)
  • The fine Hansjakob Karrel and his friend. The tea pot. (1924)
  • He and She and Other Novellas (1925)
  • Peace on Earth. All sorts of thoughts about gifts and giving (1925)
  • First you - then me (story, 1926)
  • The Journey of Countess Sibylle (novel, 1926)
  • The organ Peter. A Christmas Story. The Christmas tree. (1926)
  • Christmas miracle. A Christmas Story (1926)
  • Emkendorf Castle . Schleswig-Holstein novel from the 18th and 19th centuries (1928)
  • Johny's umbrella. My Klaus. (1931)
  • The pirate castle. It was a good thing. (Short stories, 1933)
  • Around Wildegg House (1935)
  • All for your sake (1939)
  • Finally found home (1939)
  • Secret about Helga (1939)
  • Travel time
  • What Mahlmann said

Furthermore, several publications appeared in the illustrated family magazine Die Gartenlaube . Some of her novels and stories have also been translated, including into Flemish .

literature

  • Volker Griese : Charlotte Niese - citizen of Plön, native writer and bestselling author. Yearbook for local history in the Plön district, Plön 2010. pp. 208–222.
  • Rita Bake : Who is behind this? Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women. 3rd edition. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2003.
  • Friedrich Castelle: Charlotte Niese - a literary study . Grunow, Leipzig undated (before 1928)
  • Förderkreis (Ed.): Ottensen Chronicle. So that everything is not forgotten . Self-published, Hamburg-Ottensen 1994.
  • Hans-Günther Freitag / Hans-Werner Engels : Altona. Hamburg's beautiful sister. Springer, Hamburg 1982.
  • Paul Theodor Hoffmann: Neues Altona 1919–1929. Ten years of building a major German city . Vol. 2. Diederichs, Jena 1929. *
  • Wilhelm Lobsien: Charlotte Niese. For her 60th birthday . In: Illustrated Universum-Jahrbuch 1914 . Leipzig: Reclam, [1914], pp. 229–230 (with picture).

Web links

Wikisource: Charlotte Niese  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Charlotte Niese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ The father was initially Kom pastor in Burg auf Fehmarn, then Danish; from 1862 pastor in Rieseby ; from 1865 seminar director in Eckernförde
  2. ↑ Gravestone image and location at garten-der-frauen.de
  3. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler , Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945 . dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 229 f.
personal data
SURNAME Sneeze, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Citizen, Lucian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle on Fehmarn , Duchy of Holstein
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1935
Place of death Altona