Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

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Elisabeth Bürstenbinder around 1890
Elisabeth Bürstenbinder around 1900
Labers Castle
Vineta

Elisabeth Bürstenbinder (born November 25, 1838 in Berlin ; † October 10, 1918 at Labers Castle near Meran ) was a German writer . She first wrote under the pseudonym C. Werner , since April 1871 changed to E. Werner .

Life

Elisabeth Bürstenbinder was born in Berlin as the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Her father largely kept her and her two brothers away from Berlin society. Her mother therefore became her substitute for missing childhood and youth friendships, which in turn later supported her daughter in her literary projects.

Elisabeth Bürstenbinder's first smaller publications appeared in a small magazine in southern Germany. She became known to a larger audience through novels that she published in the journal Die Gartenlaube . Soon she was one of the magazine's most popular authors. Also other publications Elisabeth brush tie appeared in the following years, first in the gazebo before they were published in book form. Elisabeth Bürstenbinder was considered by contemporaries to be the "undisputed ruler of women's reading".

Elisabeth Bürstenbinder lived in her mother's house in Berlin until 1895, interrupted by trips to Europe in the summer. Her father had died in 1861. She then moved to Munich for a year until she finally moved to Merano in 1896 , where she lived in Labers Castle , which was then used as a guesthouse. Her grave is in Merano.

Works

Novels

  • At the altar. Drama in 5 acts. Strack, Bremen 1872.
  • Good luck for! Novel, 2 volumes. Wedge, Leipzig 1874.
  • Shackles broken. Keil, Leipzig 1875 ( digitized version Ba d 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • Vineta. Keil, Leipzig 1877. ( Wikisource )
  • At a high price. 2 volumes. Keil, Leipzig 1878. ( Wikisource )
  • Heralds of Spring. Novel. Keil, Leipzig 1880. ( Google online edition 2016 )
  • The egoist. Spemann, Stuttgart 1882.
  • Banned and redeemed. Novel. Keil, Leipzig 1884. (Play in 5 acts; based on the novel of the same name aus der Gartenlaube, printed as a manuscript. Decision, Berlin approx. 1880)
  • A judgment from God. Novel. Keil, Leipzig 1885. ( Google online edition 2017 )
  • Home sound. Novel. Leipzig 1887.
  • Saint Michael. Novel, 2 volumes. Keil, Leipzig 1887.
  • The alpine fairy. Novel, 2 volumes. Wedge Leipzig 1889. ( Google online edition 2018 )
  • Flame sign. Novel, 2 volumes. Wedge, Leipzig 1890.
  • The way is clear! Keil, Leipzig 1893.
  • Mirage. Novel. Wedge, Leipzig 1896.
  • Witch gold. Novel. Keil, Leipzig 1900. ( Google online edition 2017 )
  • Runes. Novel. Keil, Leipzig 1903.
  • Siegwart. Novel. Union, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1909.

Novellas

  • Garden arbor blossoms , Leipzig 1872; contains the stories Ein Held der Feder and Hermann .
  • The flower of happiness, Keil, Leipzig 1885.
  • Eagle flight. Berlin 1886. ( Google online edition 2017 )
  • Dared and won. Stories and short stories. Wedge, Leipzig 1891
  • The higher point of view. 3 novellas. 1896. ( Google Online 2017 edition )
  • The poacher. (as "E. Weber") in: Wilhelm Bernhardt (Hrsg.): German novelettes. Volume 1st row: Students' series. German novelettes for school and home. German Novelette Library, for use in schools and colleges. DC Heath, Boston 1898; several reprints since 2009. pp. 42–65 (with some explanations for English speakers)

Complete edition

  • Collected novels and short stories 10 volumes. Leipzig 1893–1896 [and] New Series [ibid.] 1901ff.

literature

  • Fritz Abshoff: Forming Spirits . Volume 1. Oestergaard, Berlin 1905, p. 12.
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, pp. 392f.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. Stuttgart 1981 (= Repertories on German Literary History; 9), p. 44.

Web links

Wikisource: Elisabeth Bürstenbinder  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Elisabeth Bürstenbinder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Maack: The Novella. A critical encyclopedia about the most famous German poets of the present with special consideration of the novelists . Publication of the Novella Library, Lübeck 1896, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Brush binder, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E. Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1918
Place of death Labers Castle , Merano