Elise Bake

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Elise Bake (born August 5, 1851 in Dresden ; † November 9, 1928 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Little is known about Bake's life. In the year she was born in Dresden, the Dresden address book only lists one man with the surname Bake, the a. EN beacon. Bake lived in Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire in the 1890s, when Sophie Pataky asked female writers for résumés for her Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder work . Elise Bake is first listed as a writer in Dresden address books in 1907; At that time she lived at Bergstrasse 42. At that time she moved in with Fraulein Emma Bake, who was listed in the city's address books at this address as early as 1902. Both lived together in Reichenbachstrasse 7 from 1919 and until Elisa Bake's death . None of Bake's houses has survived.

Bake wrote children's and especially girls' literature. In literary-historical studies it is mainly because of its colonial novel Schwere Zeiten. The fate of a German girl is present in South West Africa because, alongside Käthe van Beeker , Henny Koch and Valerie Hodann, she was one of the few women authors who wrote colonial novels especially for girls. Due to the sparse biographical information on Bake, it is unclear whether she was ever in Africa; it is sometimes assumed that she was one of those authors who “got secondhand” information about Africa.

Works

The Beasts' Ball, envelope, 1891
  • The animals' ball. Meinhold, Dresden 1891. ( digitized version )
  • In intimate hours, stories for the young world, with 4 chromos after watercolors by Marie Stüler. Meidinger, Berlin 1894.
  • Happy evenings for young and old. 1912.
  • A modern cinderella. Harrap, London 1912.
  • Hard times. The fate of a German girl in South West Africa. Gmelin, Munich 1913. ( digitized version )
  • Helen's wandering years. Story for young girls. Sibyllen-Verlag, Berlin 1924.
Translations
  • 1909: Orison Swett Marden - Will and Success
  • 1911: Orison Swett Marden - character - a power
  • 1920: Eustace H. Miles - Prevention and Healing. Good advice for the healthy and the sick

literature

  • Bake, Elise . In: 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.

Web links

Commons : Elise Bake  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Elise Bake  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book for the city of Dresden for the year 1851 . Publishing house of the Königl. Saxon. Adreß-Comptoirs in Dresden, [1851], p. 5.
  2. ↑ Bake, Miss Elise . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 32 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs, 1907 . Verlag der Buchdruckerei der Dr. Güntzschen Foundation, Dresden [1907], p. 24.
  4. ↑ Address book for Dresden and suburbs 1919 . Verlag der Buchdruckerei der Dr. Güntzschen Foundation, Dresden [1919], p. 19.
  5. ↑ Gisela Wilkending: Girls' literature from the imperial era: between female identification and crossing borders . Metzler, Stuttgart 2003, p. 104.
  6. ↑ Rosa B. Schneider: "About Scholle und Leben": On the construction of "race" and gender in colonial African literature around 1900 . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 210.
  7. ↑ Gottfried Mergner, Oldenburg City Museum: The African in German children's and youth books . University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1985, p. 108.
  8. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Bake, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1928
Place of death Dresden