Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa (born May 25 . Jul / June 6, 1842 greg. In Milkowszczyzna, Grodno , Russian Empire , † May 5 jul. / May 18, 1910 greg. In Grodno ) was a Polish writer.
Life
Eliza married the landowner of Orzeszko at the age of 16 and, when her husband was exiled to Siberia as a result of the uprising of 1863 , emerged with a number of social novels in the style and spirit of George Sand , which above all focused on the oppression of intellectual women by uncomprehending women Men on the subject.
It was not until the novel Eli Makower (1874), a story that penetrated the depths of Polish-Jewish relations and was also successful in artistic terms, that the author gained general recognition. This increased as a result of a new novel of this direction: Meir Ezofowicz (Warsaw 1878; German, 3rd edition, Dresden 1887), in which the struggle between (Jewish) orthodoxy and religious desire for freedom is described in an original way and with non-denominational radicalism. Her novellas ( Z różnych sfer, Warsaw 1879, 2 volumes) were also well received.
Among her works are to be emphasized: Herrgraba (German, Berlin 1888), Verlorne Seelen (German, Breslau 1887), Cnotliwi, Marta and The Berliwicz family. In the book Patryotysm i Kosmopolitysm (Warsaw 1880) the poet entered the field of political-social studies. Your “Letter to German Women” from 1900 is considered a milestone in Polish women's history.
Works (selection)
- The Nyemen fisherman . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1951.
- The witch . Paul List, Leipzig 1954.
- An impossible person . In: Karin Wolff (Ed.): At the first star of the night. Christmas tales from Poland . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1976.
- The high born . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1978.
literature
- Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Vol. 12, Col. 1494f.
- Eliza Orzeszkowa , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, pp. 999-1003
Web links
- Works by Eliza Orzeszkowa in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Quotes ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
- Eliza Orzeszkowa. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Kalendarium - historia kobiet w Polsce
- Literature by and about Eliza Orzeszkowa in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orzeszkowa, Eliza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eliza from Orzeszko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grodno Governorate , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1910 |
| Place of death | Grodno , Poland |