Elisabeth Müller (playwright)

Elisabeth Müller (born March 6, 1827 , † March 6, 1898 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer .

Life

Elisabeth Müller was born in 1827 as the daughter of a wealthy businessman and received a very good education for her time. After her father's second marriage, she left home and began training as a teacher, which she completed with the state examination. In the following years she worked as a teacher in private and public schools at home and abroad, until she finally began to earn her living as a writer.

From 1881 she lived as a freelance writer a. a. in Freiburg im Breisgau , where she works under the pseudonym “E. Meruéll “published dramas. She also wrote youth books, novels, short stories and fairy tales and wrote a biography about Peter Rosegger . She also translated from English and French. In 1895 she moved to Stuttgart, where she died of a stroke in 1898.

Works

• Fairy tales on the move. Kiepert, Freiburg 1881.
• Anna of Cleve or The Queen's Belt Maid. Drama in five acts. Greiner, Stuttgart 1881.
• Otto the Great. Drama in five acts. Greiner & Pfeifer, Stuttgart 1881.
• Pigeon and hawk. Novel. Rothermel, Schaffhausen 1883.
• A hair on the glove button. Comedy in 5 acts, based on a French motif. Bischkopf, Wiesbaden 1887.
• New fairy tales for the dear youth (1892)
• From the shepherd's crook to the pen, a portrait of PK Rosegger's life. Pichler, Vienna 1885.

literature

• Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , p. 292 f.
• Müller, Miss Elisabeth . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 67 ( digitized version ).
• Meruéll, E. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 36 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No copy can be found