Claire Bernhardt

Claire Bernhardt (born January 9, 1860 in Breslau ; † August 24, 1909 there ) was a German writer .

Life

At a young age she married the businessman and later factory director Bernhardt, with whom she moved to Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia . Only in 1905 did she move back to Breslau, where she died four years later.

Bernhardt initially wrote novellas , travel letters and other small works for various Silesian newspapers. There were also several dramas. From 1905, her works were published by publishers, including her first novel, Johanniskind, in 1907. Your novel Half Man. The tragedy of the third sex was initially not allowed to be published in Dresden and was confiscated, but later released.

Works

• Evoë. Novelettes and sketches. Thielmann, Kreuzberg (Upper Silesia) 1905.
• The longing left. Novellas. 1906.
• Johanniskind. Novel. Kraut, Dresden 1907.
• Half the man. The tragedy of the third sex. Novel. Diegmann, Dresden 1907.
• All-winner Venus. Novellas. Diegmann, Dresden 1908.
• Heavenly and earthly love. Novel. Hofmann, Berlin 1909.

literature

• Bernhardt, Claire . In: 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. 206.
• Bernhardt, Claire . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 24.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno Lubos : History of the literature of Silesia . Volume 3. Bergstadtverlag, 1974, p. 40.
2. ↑ Bernhardt, Claire . In: 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. 206.
3. ↑ No copy can be found