Clara Nast

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Clara Nast (born Seyffert ; born April 30, 1866 in Insterburg, East Prussia , today Tschernjachowsk , † 1925 in Tilsit, today Sowetsk ) was a popular German writer for children's and youth literature . She also published under the pseudonym Herbert Fohrbach .

Life

Clara Nast received her first lessons from a tutor in Eydtkuhnen, today Chernyshevskoye . She later attended private schools in Insterburg and Tilsit. On July 3, 1883, she married L. Nast, senior teacher at the royal high school in Tilsit. In the following years she published her first texts in the Neue Musik-Zeitung , the Roman-Bibliothek , the Neue Blatt , the Novellenzeitung and the Illustrierte monthly books . At times the couple also lived in Russia .

Clara Nast published her first own work in 1889 under the pseudandronym Herbert Fohrbach: Old-Lithuanian stories was self-published in Tilsit. It wasn't until 1906 that she published the first book under her own name: How Our Ännchen Fared - Stories for Younger Girls , like all her books from then on, was published by A. Weichert Verlag Berlin. Clara Nast made a name for herself as an author of literature for girls , and most of her works saw several new editions well into the 1930s. Clara Nast wrote a total of 26 children's books, including several series, such as the Aennchen series (3 vol.), The Lottchen series (3 vol.), And the later, particularly successful Hummelchen and Christinchen series (4 vol. Each) . Most of her books were richly illustrated.

Works

  • Old Lithuanian stories (as Herbert Fohrbach) self-published, Tilsit 1889
  • The witch - poor Anna Feodorowna (as Herbert Fohrbach) Krabbe, Stuttgart 1898
  • How our little girl fared , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1906
  • Our Aennchen's school years , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1907
  • What blossomed our Aennchen! , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1908
  • Ilses Backfischjahre , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1909 [New edition Karl Müller, Erlangen 1999, ISBN 978-3860700426 ]
  • Pension Lustig , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1910
  • Lottchen's childhood , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1911
  • Lottchen's youth , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1912
  • Lottchen's apprenticeship and hiking time , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1913
  • Ib the storyteller , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1913
  • Micks and Malde , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1914
  • Beach children (2nd volume with Micks and Malde), A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1919
  • With weapons of charity , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1915
  • From pension to life , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1916
  • Dance lesson stories , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1917
  • Hummelchen , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1917
  • Little Toni and her aunts , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1918
  • Hummelchen goes to school , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1918
  • Hummelchen wants to study , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1919
  • Hummelchen wants to get married , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1919
  • Christinchens Traumland , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1920
  • Christinchens Joy and Sorrow , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1921
  • Christinchens Sonnentage , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1922
  • Christinchens last trip , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1924
  • Peterchen Tunichtgut , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1924
  • Peterchen Tunichtguts Flegeljahre , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1925
  • Aunt Minchen's wonder cabinet , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1925
  • Aunt Minchen's coffee party , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1926 (posthumous)
  • The puppet doctor , A. Weichert Verlag, Berlin 1928 (posthumous)

Web links

literature

  • Martin A. Völker : Literature of the Frontier and Frontier of Literature - About the East Prussian writer Clara Nast (1866-1925). In: Clara Nast: So far away from you. Lithuanian border experiences [1901/03], with an essay ed. by Martin A. Völker, Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2017. pp. 163–190.
  • Nast, Klara . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 76 ( digitized version ).
  • Aiga Klotz: Children's and Youth Literature in Germany 1840 - 1950 Volume IV, JB Metzler, 2000, ISBN 978-3-476-00706-3
personal data
SURNAME Nast, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fohrbach, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernyakhovsk
DATE OF DEATH 1925
Place of death Tilsit