Emil Marriot
Emil Marriot , pseudonym of Emilie Mataja , (born November 20, 1855 in Vienna ; † May 5, 1938 ibid) was an Austrian writer of realism .
Life
Emilie Mataja was the daughter of a Viennese merchant family. She was the sister of the Austrian economist and social politician Viktor Mataja and half-sister of the later Austrian Foreign Minister Heinrich Mataja .
Many of her stories first appeared in Austrian and German magazines and daily newspapers, e.g. B. Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , Neues Wiener Tagblatt and The Future . In 1891 Mataja became a member of the Iduna ; But she was also in lively exchange with other writers: Karl Emil Franzos , Maximilian Harden , Paul Heyse , Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and others. a. belonged to their circle of acquaintances.
Emilie Mataja died in Vienna on May 5, 1938 at the age of 82 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (30E-2-23).
Mataja's entire literary work is characterized by realism and dealt with important social problems of her time. In her stories and novels, she often questioned bourgeois morality, advocated the question of women and repeatedly addressed the Christian religion.
From today's perspective (2006), Mataja's work is characterized by a cultural pessimism that brings the writer close to Arthur Schopenhauer .
In 2009 her correspondence with Julie Kalbeck , wife of the music writer and critic Max Kalbeck , consisting of 68 letters and 76 postcards and correspondence cards from the period 1882-1919, was auctioned off.
Honors
- Honorary donation from the Board of Trustees of the Bauernfeld Foundation
- 1912 Ebner Eschenbach Prize
Works
- Modern People (1893)
- Young marriage (Freund & Jeckel, 1897)
- My career (1914)
- Decent Women Grote, Berlin (1906)
- The Law of Sin (1920)
- His deity (1922)
literature
- John Byrnes: Mataja, Emilie. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 363 f. ( Digitized version ).
- V. Hanus: Mataja Emilie. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 133 f. (Direct links on p. 133 , p. 134 ).
- John Byrnes: Emil Marriot: A reevaluation based on her short fiction . Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1983, ISBN 3-261-05081-0
- Gertrud Falkensammer: E. Marriot. A contribution to the Austrian novel around 1900 . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1950
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Marriot in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Marriot in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marriot, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mataja, Emilie (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer of realism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1938 |
| Place of death | Vienna |