Charlotte Regenstein

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The writer Charlotte Regenstein ( pseudonym "Alexander Römer");
Wood engraving , 1896

Charlotte Regenstein (born Charlotte Schultze or Charlotte Schulze , pseudonym Alexander Römer ; born March 27, 1835 in Gorlosen or Schwerin , † May 20, 1904 in Hanover ) was a German writer . She was posthumously referred to as the "Hanoverian Courths-Mahler ".

Life

Charlotte Schulze or Schultze, who was born in Mecklenburg in 1835 , was orphaned as a teenager and was married to her cousin Karl Regenstein at the age of 15 , a man who had given up his studies and instead became an officer in the Schleswig-Holstein army "in order for the To fight for the liberation of these duchies ”. She followed her husband into the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1850/51 , where she received “impressions that have remained indelible”.

After the end of the campaign from 1850 to 1851 and after the dissolution of the army, Regenstein's husband entered the civil service in Schwerin. When he died suddenly in 1860, however, he left his wife and four children with little financial means, resulting in a decade of hardship for the widow and her family. However, in 1870 Charlotte Regenstein was able to join the circles at the court of Schwerin Castle “through a chain of special circumstances” . There she was able to earn a living in the position of lady-in-waiting , but "her nature was completely unsuitable for this sphere", which is why she left court circles in 1876 and moved to Dresden with a "friend of the same kind" , where she founded her own household and initially still dedicated to raising her children.

Shortly before, in the early days of the German Empire , her first novel, Unter dem Purpur, was published in Daheim magazine in 1875 . A German family sheet with illustrations . However, at the request of the editor-in-chief of the paper, Robert Koenig , she had already published her first publication under the - male - pseudonym Alexander Römer . Two other novels appeared in the periodical under this name.

In the course of time Regenstein published numerous other writings. During extensive trips to Paris, London, Holland and Italy, Regenstein interrupted her literary activity, but she found many stimuli for new work.

In 1887, Charlotte Regenstein finally settled in Hanover as an established writer. At the end of the 19th century she lived there at Rumannstraße 4 .

The deceased in Hanover was later referred to by Hans Joachim Toll as the "Hanoverian Courths-Mahler ".

Works

  • To support the housewife, A story for young girls , Roman, Bielefeld 1877, Velhagen & Klasing, 1876
  • Countess Sibylle , novel, 2 volumes, 1878
  • Quiet and Moving Novel, 2 volumes, 1880
  • One of the crowd , novel, 1888
  • Modern culture , 1889
  • Under the purple , 1890
  • The Lie of Her Life , 1890
  • In the web. Novella. By Alexander Römer (= Kürschner's book treasure , no. 16), Berlin; Eisenach; Leipzig: Hillger, [1897]
  • Rescued. Novella. By Alexander Römer (= Kürschner's book treasure , no. 139), Berlin; Eisenach; Leipzig: Hillger, [1899]

literature

  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . A lexicon (= repertories on the history of German literature , vol. 9), Stuttgart: Metzler, 1991, ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7 and ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 245
  • Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 13 (1991), Column 163
  • Günter Regenstein: Charlotte Regenstein. A biographical-genealogical search for traces . In: Journal for Low German Family Studies , Ed .: Die Maus, Society for Family Research, Bremen; Genealogical-Heraldic Society, Göttingen; Genealogical Society, Hamburg; Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies, Hanover. Göttingen, Hamburg, ISSN 0945-7461, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Regenstein, Charlotte in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 17, 2015, last accessed on February 14, 2020
  2. ^ Rudolf Eckart: Römer, Alexander (pseud. For Charlotte Regenstein) , in ders .: Lexicon of Lower Saxon writers from the oldest times to the present , Osterwieck, Harz: Zickfeldt, 1891, p. 141; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Sophie Pataky (ed.): Regenstein, Charlotte , in dies .: Lexicon of German women of the pen. A compilation of the works by female authors that have appeared since 1840, together with the biographies of the living and a list of pseudonyms , Vol. 2, Berlin: C. Pataky, 1898, p. 172; Digitized at Zeno.org
  4. ↑ a b c d Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 5, 6th edition, Leipzig, 1913, pp. 404-405; Digitized via the German text archive
  5. ^ A b c Hiltrud Schroeder : Sophie & Co. Significant women of Hanover. Biographische Portraits , Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 253-254
personal data
SURNAME Regenstein, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultze, Charlotte (maiden name); Schulze, Charlotte; Römer, Alexander (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorlosen or Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1904
Place of death Hanover