Else Morstatt
Else Morstatt , née Elsa Leokadija Isabella von Campenhausen , divorced Elsa von Brümmer , also Elsa Campen (born February 12, 1880 in Wolmar , Livonia ; † after 1930) was a German writer .
Life
Elsa von Campenhausen was born as the daughter of the landowner and district administrator Henrich Eduard Paul von Campenhausen (1846–1906). At the end of 1898 she married Adrian von Brümmer (1872–?) From Riga in Riga ; the marriage was divorced in early 1905. From 1905 she experienced the unrest of the Russian Revolution of 1905 , the aftermath of which also cost her father his life; he was murdered by a servant in 1906. Elsa von Brümmer later dealt with the Russian Revolution and the fate of her father in her first prose work, How We too Forgive Our Debtors , published in 1908 .
In June 1912 she married the biology professor Hermann Morstatt (1877-1958) in Berlin and went with him to East Africa . After their return they lived in Berlin-Dahlem and Berlin-Zehlendorf .
Else Morstatt published a number of books for children and young people in the 1920s and 1930s , most of which are set in Africa and thematically classified as colonial literature. Her work Ursel's war trip in Africa was included in the third addendum of the " List of Literature to be Separated " in the GDR in 1952 .
Works (selection)
- Why? , Riga 1904 (under the name Elsa von Campenhausen )
- How we forgive our debtors , Riga 1908 (under the name Elsa Campen )
- The white king , Neudamm 1924
- A young African , Reutlingen 1925
- Kanyoro's homecoming , Reutlingen 1926
- Ursel's war trip in Africa , Reutlingen 1926
- Behind the big lake , Stuttgart 1927
- Adventure in the Manchurian mountains , Reutlingen 1928
- Fairy tales of heaven, sun and earth , Berlin 1928
- The journey into the distance , Reutlingen 1929
- Dick and Nick in Africa , Berlin 1931
- Kiboko , Stuttgart 1931
- Heiner's trip to Africa , Berlin 1934
- The little fairy tale seekers , Reutlingen 1948
Literature and Sources
- Māra Grudule: 1905.gada revolūcija Baltijas vācu literatūrā in: Starptautiska konference INFORMĀCIJA, REVOLŪCIJA, REAKCIJA: 1905-2005, 2005. gada 23.-25. novembris, Rīga (Latvija) , (p. 97, Latvian, viewed April 11, 2011)
- Deutsches Adelsarchiv , Deutscher Adelsrechtsausschuß (Ed.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Volume 39. Verlag CA Starke, 1967, p. 116 ( online at Google Books ).
- Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, p. 931.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Sachtleben : Obituary for Hermann Morstatt. In: Contributions to Entomology , 9, 1959, pp. 710–712 ( digitized version )
- ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-m.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morstatt, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campenhausen, Elsa Leokadija Isabella von (maiden name); Brümmer, Elsa von; Camping, Elsa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolmar , Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1930 |