Dora Duncker

Dora Duncker 1898

Dora Duncker (born March 28, 1855 in Berlin ; † October 9, 1916 there ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Dora Duncker was a daughter of the publisher Alexander Duncker and the niece of the left-liberal newspaper publisher and co-founder of the German trade union movement Franz Duncker . She was taught by private tutors and went on study trips through Austria , Tyrol , Northern Italy and Switzerland . In Munich she made the acquaintance of the painters Carl Theodor von Piloty , Hans Makart and Franz von Lenbach and the writer Paul Heyse . Dora Duncker had been married since 1888; the marriage, from which a daughter emerged, was divorced after a few years . Duncker then lived as a freelance writer and journalist in Berlin.

Dora Duncker has written novels , short stories , essays , poems and plays . In addition, she wrote theater reviews and published the colorful year children's calendar from 1885 to 1897 .

Dora Duncker repeatedly wrote novels and plays in which she portrayed women, thereby bringing them into the limelight and thus bringing up the role of women in society.

Duncker, who had had lung disease for years, died in 1916 at the age of 61 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The tomb 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

• On the significance of the German exhibition in Munich in relation to its arrangement and its arts and crafts part . (Exhibition Munich). Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1876. 26 pp.
• Sphinx . Acting in 4 acts. F. Bloch, Berlin 1881. 76 p. (Stage manuscript)
• Modern masters , Berlin 1883
• This is how the boys twitter . Fairy tales and stories. Illustrated by E. Elias. Verlag von Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1885. 4 sheets, 64 pages, 16 plates
• Kate Grumbkow . Novella. H. Paetel, Berlin 1886
• By a hair . Chat in one act. F. Bloch, Berlin 1886
• Real marriage request etc. , Stuttgart 1888
• Rot at the core . Novel. Carl Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1889
• This and that . Love and other stories. Published by Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1890
• A lieutenant lost etc. , Stuttgart 1891
• Incurable . Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1893. (Digital Resource)
• The gold fly . Berlin moral novel. F. Fontane & C., Berlin 1894. 228 pp.
• Gentlemen! . Snapshots from a young writer. G. Pohlmann, Berlin 1894. 63 pp.
• The milliner . Novellas and sketches. Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1894. 144 pp.
• Lodge 2 . 1st - 3rd Th. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1896
• Chats and sketches from the Berlin Zoological Garden . Published by Alexander Duncker, Berlin 1896
• Surprises . Humoresques. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1896
• Mothers . F. Fontane & C., Berlin 1897
• Family . Vita, Berlin 1898
• Big city . 1-10 Th. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1900
• The knight from high C , Leipzig 1900
• The big lie . 1-10 Th. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1901
• Comedian rides . Müller - Mann, Leipzig 1901. 143 pp.
• Greater Berlin . New novellas. 1st - 10th thousand R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1902. 96 p. (Eckstein's Modern Library, Vol. 18)
• She should be your maid . Novel. Book decorations by Walter Caspari . 1-10 Th. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1902. (Eckstein's Illustr. Novel Library, 3 Vol., Vol. 7)
• Gustav Woehrmann . Play in 3 acts. Stage manuscript. R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1903. 96 pp.
• Lottery luck. Laughed to death , Munich 1903
• Mothers . Two novels. 1st - 10th thousand R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1903. 96 p. (Eckstein's Modern Library, Vol. 25)
• Mary Magdalene . Novel. 1st - 5th thousand R. Eckstein Nachf., Berlin 1903. 254 pp.
• The beauty parlor , Berlin 1904
• Atoned for . Popular drama in 4 lifts. A. Decision in commission, Berlin 1905. 62 pp.
• The holy woman . Berlin theater - novel. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1905. 372 pp.
• Youth . Novellas. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1905
• Fairy tales and stories . Globus Verlag, Berlin 1905. 208 pp.
• Wrong goal. Family . Novellas. With illustrations by Arthur Lewin . H. Hillger, Berlin-Leipzig 1906. 110 p. (Kürschner's book treasure, vol. 525)
• The gray alley . Novel. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1906. 278 pp.
  • The gray alley . Novel. Post & Müller, Leipzig 1916. 293 pp. (Wiking books, vol. 14)
• Suffering . A boy's novel. S. Schottlaender, Berlin 1908. 415 pp.
• Ernst von Wildenbruch . Serious and cheerful things from his life. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1909. 111 p. (Dramaturgical Chats, Vol. 3)
• Fighter . Novel. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1909. 306 pp.
• The beautiful Ede and other things . New Berlin Novellas. With Illustr. by H. Binde . H. Hillger, Berlin-Leipzig 1909. 96 p. (Kürschner's book treasure, vol. 664)
• The pearl book . New novellas and sketches. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1910. 202 pp.
• The snow queen . A German fairy tale game in a prelude and three acts based on Hans Christian Andersens . Verlag Tescher, Charlottenburg 1910. 96 pp.
• In the private room . Big city pictures. Borngraeber, Berlin 1911. 139 pp.
• Bergeholz sons . Novel. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1912. 318 pp.
• A love idyll of Louis XIV. Louise de la Valliére. Historical novel. Bong, Berlin 1912. 335 pp. (Novels by famous men and women, vol. 5)
• Doctor Stillfried . Historical novel. 3. Edition. Beyer, Charlottenburg 1913. 215 pp.
• Festschrift for the bicentenary on May 3, 1913 . Nicolaische Buchhandlung Borstell & Reimarus 1713–1913. Berlin 1913. 43 pp.
• Little Highness . Comedy in 3 acts by Dora Duncker and Hans Gaus. Eduard Bloch, Berlin 1913. 76 pp.
• Marquise of Pompadour . A novel from gallant times. Bong, Berlin 1913. 392 pp. (Novels by famous men and women, vol. 8)
• The blonde and the giant . Novel. Reissner, Dresden 1914. 329 pp.
• Berlin at war . City sketches from the war year 1914/15. Globus Verlag, Berlin 1915. 250 p. ( Http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00007CB200000000 )
• Off to the sun . A novel from our day. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1916. 314 pp. ( Http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00006E9600000000 )
• George Sand . A book of passion. Historical novel. Bong, Berlin 1916. 334 pp. (Novels by famous men and women, vol. 11)
• Love for love . Herz, Berlin 1916. 95 p. (Herz - books, vol. 10)
• The Duncker House . A bookseller's novel from the Biedermeier period. With seven collotype prints. Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1918. 307 pp.
• The woman with the hyacinths . Novel. Oldenburg, Leipzig 1918. 277 pp.
• The children of Mr. Ulrich . Novel. Montanus, Siegen 1919. 388 pp.
• Little Highness . Operetta in 3 acts by Hans Gaus . Based on the comedy of the same name by Dora Duncker and Hans Gaus. Music by Martin Knopf . Library for Drama and Music, Berlin 1919. 31 pp.
• Wetland , Reutlingen 1925
• Doctor Stillfried . Humorous novel. With 28 text illustrations. Ehrlich, Berlin 1920. 191 pp. (Ehrlich's illustrated library, vol. 2)
• The big lie . Novel. Weichert, Berlin (around 1927). 256 p. (Weichert books, vol. 2)
• Big city . Novel. Weichert, Berlin (around 1927). 255 p. (Weichert books, vol. 7)

Translations

• Edmond About : Parisian Marriages . Translated from French. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1886. 157 p. (Engelhorn's general novel library, vol. 3, volume 7)
• Alexandre Dumas fils : A friend of women . Comedy in 5 acts. Edited for the German stage by Dora Duncker. Reclam Leipzig, 1891. 85 p. (Reclam's Universal Library, vol. 2878)

literature

• Maria Ebert: "Born for books and science". Dora Duncker. A picture of life. Cuxhaven and Stuttgart 2019 (Duckdalben Verlag), ISBN 978-3-947351-02-2 , 96 pp.

Web links

Wikisource: Dora Duncker  - Sources and full texts

• Biography and selected works of Dora Duncker in full text
• Biography "Born for books and science". Dora Duncker. A picture of life
• Works by Dora Duncker in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Dora Duncker in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• NEWW Women Writers database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maria Ebert: "Born for books and sciences". Dora Duncker. A picture of life . Cuxhaven and Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-947351-02-2 , pp. 74/75 .
2. ^ Andreas Conrad: Memorial stones for forgotten women writers . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . September 2, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 14, 2018]).