Elisabeth von Maltzahn

Elisabeth Alexandrine Auguste Bertha Margarete Freiin von Maltzahn , also: Else von Maltzahn (born January 24, 1868 in Rühn , † February 25, 1945 in Gotenhafen ) was a German writer .

Life

Elisabeth von Maltzahn was the daughter of the forester Bogislav von Maltzahn. She spent her childhood and youth in Schwerin ; later she lived in Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains . In 1915 she married the Protestant pastor and publicist Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Wengel, in Godesberg the magazine "Cross and force" published . Both spouses died in early 1945 while fleeing East Prussia : shortly after the death of her husband in the East Prussian town of Rauschen , Elisabeth von Maltzahn died at the end of February 1945 on the refugee ship Deutschland anchored in Gotenhafen and was buried in a mass grave in Gotenhafen.

Elisabeth von Maltzahn published novels , short stories and poems . Her narrative works, which were widely read at the time, are mostly set in their Mecklenburg homeland.

Works

• Ilsabe. Schwerin 1898
• The court preacher of your Highness. Schwerin in 1899. 2nd edition 1902 ( digitized version )
• Doctor Bernhardus. Schwerin 1900
• Luginsland. Schwerin 1900
• The holy blood. Schwerin 1901
• Trusted loyalty. Schwerin in 1902
• A queen of France and Navarre. Schwerin 1903
• The linden trees of Pyrmont. Schwerin 1905
• Osanna in excelsis !. Schwerin 1905
• High forest magic. Schwerin 1907
• Holiday of my soul. Schwerin 1907
• The white woman. Schwerin 1908
• The holy dam. Schwerin 1909
• That is certainly true! Schwerin in 1910
• Contra naturam ?. Schwerin 1912
• The holy no. Pig 1912
• When I greet the sun ... Berlin 1915
• Offside. Berlin 1916
• German seeds. Barmen 1916
• A man. Berlin 1918
• When mothers sin ... Schwerin 1920
• The divine treasure. Schwerin (Mecklenburg) 1921
• On silent fires. Schwerin i. Mecklb. 1922
• Bright nights. Schwerin in 1922
• Daughters of the homeland. Hamburg 1922
• When clear sources rustle ... Schwerin 1924
• Wear roses !. Schwerin in 1925
• From old chests. Schwerin 1926
• Just one woman. Schwerin i. Mecklbg. 1926
• What are you from? Schwerin in 1928
• You shall not die !. Schwerin 1931
• Crusaders. Berlin 1933
• Jürgen Schwertmann the Free. Schwerin 1934
• A blooming day. Bad Blankenburg 1940
• If I don't have it ... Marburg an der Lahn 1988

literature

• Gudrun Wedel: autobiographies of women. A lexicon. Böhlau, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20585-0 , p. 535 ( Google Books ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth von Maltzahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Elisabeth von Maltzahn in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Elisabeth von Maltzahn in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Antiquarian pages with numerous illustrations from Maltzahn's works in the Friedrich-Bahn-Verlag
• Reading sample from "The Abbot from the Mark Brandenburg" (new edition of "If I don't have him ...") (PDF; 91 kB)