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Ella Mensch (born March 5, 1859 in Lübben , † May 5, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German writer , educator and editor of the magazine Frauen-Rundschau .

Ella Mensch, in the second half of the 19th century

Life

Ella Mensch was born as the daughter of the senior teacher Hermann Mensch , who later became the rector of the boys 'and girls' school in Gollnow near Stettin . Ella also attended school there. In addition, she received private lessons from her father in Greek and Latin and music lessons from her mother Fanny Stantien († 1874). In Berlin she attended the teachers' seminar for higher and middle schools, which she graduated from in 1879. In 1880 she enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich (one of the few universities that was open to women at that time). In addition to philosophical and philological studies, she also dealt with theology.

In 1884 she returned to Germany to become a reporter for opera and drama at the Darmstädter Tagblatt . She later wrote for the Daily Gazette . In addition, she worked on her doctoral thesis with which it 1886 in Zurich with magna cum laude to the Dr. phil. received his doctorate . This made her one of the earliest doctoral students in Europe. In her partly autobiographical novel Auf Vorposten , twenty years later she processed her student days in Zurich.

She then worked as a teacher at higher girls' institutes in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main . She also gave recitation evenings in Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden as well as literary lectures in all major cities in Germany. She received the Silver Medal for Art and Science from Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhine .

As a writer, she published novels, treatises on literary and cultural history as well as magazine articles, from 1900 onwards in the magazine Das Literarian Echo - a bi-monthly publication for friends of literature . She cultivated an approach between emancipated and conservative values. In 1904 she became editor of the Frauen-Rundschau and from then on lived in Berlin . She also appeared in 1904 as a speaker for the German delegation at the International Women's Congress in Berlin. From 1905 she was a lecturer in literary and art history at the Lyceum des Westens .

When Ella Mensch died in Berlin in 1935 at the age of 76, an obituary said about her: “After a long sick bed, Miss. Ella Mensch, Berlin, well-known writer and long-time employee of the 'Darmstädter Tagblatt' different. "She was buried in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Ella Mensch: Iconoclasts in the Berlin Women's Movement , from the series Großstadt-Documents Volume 26, ed. by Hans Ostwald

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Works

  • The sheath forms in New High German . Wittich, Darmstadt 1886, also dissertation, Zurich 1886.
  • Richard Wagner's female characters. A lecture . 1st and 2nd edition, Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1886, 3rd edition 1887.
  • Hessian stories . Aigner, Darmstadt 1889.
  • with Anna von Krane (Ed.): Universal book for hen parties and weddings. An original collection of serious and cheerful poems, festivals for one and more people ...; for green, silver and gold weddings . Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1891.
  • New territory. People and books of the modern world . Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1892.
  • The significance of the Chicago World Exhibition for German women's work with special consideration of the development that the latter has taken in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Lecture . Waitz, Darmstadt 1893.
  • The new course. Literature, theater, art, contemporary journalism . Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1894 (new series of Neuland ).
  • Literal conversation lexicon for everyone. Practical manual and reference book for quick and reliable orientation about the novels and short stories of all cultures from the Simplicissimus to the present. In addition to pointing the finger about suitable reading material for young people . Schwabacher, Stuttgart 1895.
  • Conversational lexicon of theater literature. Practical manual and reference book for quick and reliable orientation about the dramas at home and abroad from earlier times to the present . Schwabacher, Stuttgart 1896.
  • The woman in modern literature. A contribution to the history of feelings . Duncker, Berlin 1898.
  • The victim. A modern man's romance novel . Seemann, Leipzig 1902.
  • On outposts. A novel from my Zurich student days (= Modern Women's Library, No. 19). Verlag der Frauen-Rundschau, Leipzig 1903, 2nd edition, Verlag der Frauen-Rundschau, Leipzig [1903].
  • Iconoclast in the Berlin women's movement (= Big City Documents, Volume 26). Seemann, Berlin 1906, 5th edition 1908. 3rd edition digitized by: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2014. urn: nbn: de: kobv: 109-1-6383835
  • German history. Popularly represented . Wunder, Berlin 1907.
  • German literary history. For students of all higher education institutions (= Golden Student Library, Volume 5). Siwinna, Kattowitz and Leipzig 1907, 2nd edition, Phönix-Verlag, Kattowicz Breslau Berlin and Leipzig 1913.
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau, the philosopher of natural law (= cultural bearer, volume [11]). Seemann, Berlin 1907, 2nd and 3rd editions, Seemann, Berlin and Leipzig 1908.
  • Queen Luise of Prussia. A picture of life and time. Represented from written and oral sources (= culture bearer, volume 15). 1st to 3rd edition, Seemann, Berlin and Leipzig 1908.
  • Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. A picture of time and life. Represented according to written and oral sources (= Kulturträger, Volume 22). 1st and 2nd edition, Seemann, Berlin and Leipzig 1908.
  • with A. Sonnenfeld: German essays for students from commercial and industrial schools as well as elementary school seminars . Schnetter & Lindemeyer, Berlin [around 1908].
  • Guide to Teaching World History in Higher Girls' Schools . 5 parts, O. Salle, Berlin 1910 ( digitized ).
  • The hero girl of Lüneburg. Volksstück in three acts (= youth and people's theater, issue 176). A. Strauch, Leipzig 1913
  • Memories of Sophie Freifrau von Heyl zu Herrnsheim . Koch, Darmstadt 1917.
  • The stranger. A Memel story (= Reclam's Universal Library, No. 6045). Reclam, Leipzig 1919.
  • He's still alive! A Spielhagen breviary . Staackmann , Leipzig 1929.
  • Dangerous roads. Roman (= Enßlin's 60-pfennig volumes, volume 60). Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1929.
  • Who lost the way. Roman (= Enßlin's colorful novels, volume 12). Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1931.
  • Soul in prison. Roman (= Enßlin's colorful novels, volume 28). Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1932.
  • The way to the grail. A commitment to Richard Wagner (= books of the White Flag, Volume 82). Baum, Pfullingen 1934.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matriculation number 5875, see matriculation edition of the University of Zurich  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.matrikel.uzh.ch  
  2. ↑ Lexicon of women . Volume 2, Encyclios, Zurich 1954, Col. 606.
  3. ↑ Chapter I. “Everything is mature!” Käthe Schirmacher ( Die Libertad , 1891), Ilse Frapan ( We women have no fatherland , 1899) and Ella Mensch ( Auf Vorposten , 1903). In: Romana Weiershausen: Science and Femininity. The student in the literature of the turn of the century (= results of women and gender studies (new series), volume 5). Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, pp. 64–97
  4. ↑ Darmstädter Tagblatt, May 8, 1935.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 306.
personal data
SURNAME Man, Ella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebben
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1935
Place of death Berlin