Elisabeth Florentine Bächtold

Elisabeth Florentine Bächtold , née Pöschmann , (born July 3, 1851 in Leipzig , † January 23, 1927 in Davos ) was a German writer .

Life

She was born in Leipzig as the daughter of Justice Councilor Karl Magnus Pöschmann. Her mother Florentine, b. von König, died in 1855, so that Bächtold followed her father to Dresden in 1857 , where he worked as a councilor at the Higher Appeal Court and remarried. She received her training in Dresden from, among other things, private teachers and attending a secondary school for girls .

On a recreational trip to Switzerland , she met the chief forester Martin Bächtold in Ragaz , whom she married in 1878. Her husband supported her literary activity and published in the following period novels and comedies Bächtolds in various newspapers. Some works were awarded. After a break in which Bächtold devoted himself to the upbringing of her children Armin (1879–1955) and Wanda (1880–1966), from 1893 works by her appeared again in print.

Works

• In the service of the fatherland. One-pack comedy in two sections. Grüningen 1893.
• Landvogt and bat. Carnival game in two acts. Grüningen 1894.
• The infernal machine. Schwank in 1 act. 1894. Later edition Sigrist, Wetzikon 1926.
• Building sites. Acting in 4 acts. Grüningen 1894-
• Festival for the introduction of the water supply in Ragaz. Ragaz 1899.
• Chlaus Töni, the last free Walser in Calfeisental. Cultural-historical novella. 1935. Later edition. Schuler, Chur 1965.

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 102.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , ( Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 13.