Elise Reindahl

Anna Christina Elisabeth (Elise) Reindahl b. Rullmann (born March 26, 1779 in Bremen , † September 3, 1825 in Bremen) was a German poet and writer.

biography

Reindahl was the daughter of the clerk at the Bremen Cathedral Jacob Ferdinand Rullmann (1774-1828). Rullmann's ancestors came from Göttingen. She had an older brother, the painter and engraver Ludwig Rullmann (1765-1822). She married Ferdinand Reindahl (1774–1928) in 1800; Both had two daughters.

After a simple school education, she continued her education. In 1819 she published her first work with patriotic content and in the second part with The Tragedy in Three Acts Eleonore Prochaska - Victims of Patriotic Love . Her heroine Prochaska had fought as a man in the Freikorps against Napoleon's troops and fell. She also wrote for several magazines.

Works

• Flowers of Feeling , Bremen 1819
• Power of Greed , The Rautenkranz , The Poet , The Origin of the Rose and other poems, sagas and songs in the Bremen Almanac of 1821 and 1822
• Truth and Fantasy , Bremen 1824
• Stories in the articles on the Erfurt recreation , in the women's newspaper and in the magazine Hammonia

Literature, sources

• Edith Laudowicz : Reindahl, Anna Christina Elisabeth, called Elise , geb. Rullmann. In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Henry Seedorf: Anna Clara Elisabeth (Elise) Reindahl . In: Künstlerverein in Bremen, historical society of the Künstlerverein (Hrsg.): Bremische Biographie of the nineteenth century. Verlag von Gustav Winter, Bremen 1912, pp. 397–398.