Clara von Sydow

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Clara Auguste Beda von Sydow (born June 17, 1854 in Stettin , † November 18, 1928 in Stralsund ) was a German writer.

Clara von Sydow was the oldest of seven children from the second marriage of the military pastor Oskar von Sydow (1811-1886) to Ida von Hagen. When her father became superintendent at the Altenkirchen parish church , he and his family moved to Altenkirchen .

She grew up in Altenkirchen. She initially received lessons from her father and private tutors. From 1867 she attended the secondary school for girls in Frankfurt (Oder) , but returned home at the age of 15. From 1872 she attended the teachers' seminar in Frankfurt / Oder, where she passed her exam in 1873. She was in close contact with the writer Ernst von Wildenbruch , through whom she was strengthened in her literary zeal. After the death of her father, she moved to Berlin in 1887 . She later moved from Berlin to Stralsund. She worked as a teacher in Berlin and Stralsund.

She wrote and published poems , short stories and dramas . High-circulation magazines such as Deutsche Rundschau , Westermanns Monatshefte and Die Gartenlaube also published their work.

Works (selection)

  • What do you do at Hohenstein? Berlin 1881. (novellas)
  • The same song. Berlin 1884. (Novella)
  • Annina of Murano. 1887. (drama)
  • Old companions. Dresden 1887. (Two novellas: The Silhouette, late summer)
  • The way out. 1893. (novella)
  • Loneliness. Munich 1911, Dresden 2014. (Novella)

literature

  • Sydow, Miss. Clara Auguste Beda v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 352 ( digitized version ).
  • Fritz Raeck: Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pommerscher Zentralverband, Hamburg 1969, p. 359.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 404-406.
  • Detlef Krell: Life, the big secret. The Pomeranian writer Clara von Sydow and her novel “Einsamkeiten” . In: Silesia Nova. Quarterly magazine for culture and history. Dresden, Wrocław, issue 3/2014, pp. 112–116.

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personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Clara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydow, Clara Auguste Beda von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1928
Place of death Stralsund