Clementine helmet

Clementine Helm (born October 9, 1825 in Delitzsch , † November 26, 1896 in Berlin ) was a well-read children's and youth author in the 19th century who made a name for herself with a so-called Backfischroman .

Life

Clementine Helm was born the daughter of a businessman in Delitzsch. She lost her parents at an early age and was brought up in the house of her uncle, the Weiss Schulrat in Merseburg . Later she lived with her uncle, the mineralogist Christian Samuel Weiss , in Berlin . There she attended the royal Luisenstift and was trained as an educator. Since 1847 she was married to the geologist and paleontologist Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , with whom she also adopted the daughter of her late sister.

Clementine Helm was one of the most successful young women writers in the second half of the 19th century. She wrote around 40 novels for girls. Her best-known work is "Backfischchens Leiden und Freuden" (Backfischchens Leiden und Freuden) from 1863. Here, the story of 15-year-old Grete is told with great love, who is brought to her aunt in Berlin in order to receive a proper upbringing.

Clementine Helm died just months after her husband's death in 1896 at the age of 71. Her grave was in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg and was later cleared. On September 2, 2018, a new memorial stone was placed on the former grave at the initiative of the Protestant parish.

Works (selection)

Children's songs (1861)
Backfischchens sorrows and joys. A short story for young girls , 1863
The carrier pigeon (1871)
Princess Eva (1875)
Father Carlet's foster child (1878)
The Road to Happiness (1881)
The lucky trees of Capri (2nd edition, 1887)
Three short stories for young girls (3rd edition, 1889)
Our Selekta (3rd edition, 1889)
Mrs. Theodore (3rd edition, 1889)
On the wrong track and other stories. for young girls (1891)
The Leonhard siblings (1891)
The Stepsisters (2nd edition, 1891)
Frieda's Girl Years and Other Stories (1892)
Sleeping Beauty and Snow White (3rd edition, 1893)
The Cricket (1894)
The wreath (7th edition, 1895)
The four-leaf clover (4th edition, 1895)
Doris and Dora (4th edition, 1895)
The Little Mistress (1895)
Elfriede (3rd edition, 1895)
Hans and Hanna (1895)
Elfchen Goldhaar (4th edition, 1897)
Book of fairy tales (3rd edition 1897)

literature

Hermann Arthur Lier: Beyrich, Clementine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 535 f.
Helmet, clementine . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 331 f. ( Digitized version ).
Gisela Wilkending (Ed.): Girls' literature from the imperial era . Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-476-01963-2 , p. 309.

Web links

Wikisource: Clementine Helm - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Clementine Helm in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Andreas Conrad: Memorial stones for forgotten women writers . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 2, 2018, ISSN 1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 14, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Helmet, clementine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author of children's books
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1896
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Andreas Conrad: Memorial stones for forgotten women writers . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 2, 2018, ISSN 1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 14, 2018]).