Elisabeth Dauthendey

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Elisabeth Dauthendey (born January 19, 1854 in Saint Petersburg , † April 18, 1943 in Würzburg ) was a German writer . She was particularly successful with her fairy tales and short stories, which designed a mythical to mystical fantasy world. Her novels and her essay Vom neue Frau und seine Liebe (1900), which dealt with the question of women and the problem of marriage, were less well known .

Life

Elisabeth Dauthendey was born on January 19, 1854 as the youngest of four daughters of the court photographer of Tsar Nicholas I , Carl Dauthendey, and his wife Anna, nee. Olschwang, born in Saint Petersburg . When Elisabeth was one year old, her mother took her own life. The father later married Caroline Charlotte Friedrich. This marriage comes from Elisabeth Dauthendey's half-brother, the poet Max Dauthendey .

When Elisabeth was almost ten years old, the family returned to Germany and settled in Würzburg . After school she passed a teacher’s exam and worked first for her mother’s relatives in Koenigsberg , then as an educator in a noble London family . After a while she returned home for health reasons. Dauthendey's father died in 1896, and Elisabeth was released from the sometimes strict supervision. In 1898 her first novel Im Lebensdrange was published . When teachers from Würzburg founded the women's education association "Frauenheil" in 1898 and in 1899 applied to attend selected lectures at the University of Würzburg - women’s studies were not yet generally permitted in Germany at that time - Elisabeth Dauthendey was among the applicants. The following years were marked by several stays abroad (mainly in Italy) and city trips (including Paris, London, Berlin, Dresden, Munich). In Würzburg, Dauthendey lived in an apartment at Semmelstrasse 25 and mostly worked as a private tutor . Between 1898 and 1934, she published over twenty books.

As a “half-Jew”, Elisabeth Dauthendey was threatened with being banned from her profession and being persecuted by the Nazis from 1933. She tried to counter this danger with consequent abstinence from writing so as not to attract any attention. The last years of life were therefore marked by considerable financial hardship. She died in her 90th year. Her estate, to whose custodian she is the high school teacher friend Dr. Michael Gerhard had determined, with the exception of one manuscript (published by Gerhard in 1976) for another fairy tale collection, burned in the great fire in Würzburg.

Works

Dauthendey, influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy , dealt, among other things, with psychological and ethical issues and addressed the changed self-image of women in their time.

  • In the urge to live. Roman , Minden iW (Bruns) 1898
  • About the new wife and his love. A book for mature spirits , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1900
  • Hunger. Novelle , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1901; 2nd edition Nuremberg (Der Bund) 1923
  • Double life. Novel , book decoration by Anna Baisch , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1901
  • In the shade. Novellas , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1903
  • The beautiful Mauvaine. A royal will. Two romantic ballads , 1904
  • The Urnian Question and the Woman , 1906
  • Romantic short stories , 1907
  • Vivos voco , 1908 (8th edition 1923 udT From the Shores of Life )
  • The sacred fire , 1910
  • Fairy tale , 1910
  • The fairytale meadow. Fairy tales, stories and poems , with 4 full color pictures and numerous text images by Luise von Geldern-Egmond , Braunschweig (Westermann) 1912
  • An evening and other short stories , 1914
  • From the gardens of the earth. A book of deep silence , 1917
  • The golden hour of victory , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1919
  • Erotic novels , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1919
  • Today's fairy tales , 1920
  • The sacred groves. Treasures that remained with us despite the severe war of dire need , Berlin (Schuster & Loeffler) 1920
  • Akelei's Journey in the Golden Shoes and Other Fairy Tales , 1922
  • Erla and the seven manors. Stories , 1923
  • Intimate chats about artistic creation and enjoyment , 1924
  • Die Teeprinzessin - Opera for the youth , world premiere December 5th, Würzburg 1926, setting: Simon Breu
  • Three mothers-in-law. A Schwank , 1927
  • (Author and others in :) For the twilight hour. New fairy tales and stories , ed. by Walther Günther Schreckenbach, Fürth (Löwensohn) 1928
  • Palaces and gardens on the Main , with photos by Paul Wolff , Bielefeld and Leipzig (Velhagen & Klasing) 1932
  • Fairy tales , ed. From the estate. by Michael Gebhardt, Gerabronn and Crailsheim (Hohenloher) 1976, ISBN 3-87354-058-4

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Elisabeth Dauthendey  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 65f.
personal data
SURNAME Dauthendey, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1943
Place of death Wurzburg