Emma Cuno

Emma Cuno born Neustetel (born July 14, 1823 in Hanau , † 1904 in Überlingen ) was a German writer for children and young people.

Life

Her parents were the lawyer Leopold Joseph Neustetel (1797–1825), who came from a Jewish family, and Regine Julie, born in 1821 in Hanau in the Jewish rite, from a very wealthy Jewish family in Heidelberg . Zimmer (1800-1870). In this connection Emma and her sister Mathilde were born. A few years after the marriage, her father fell seriously ill and then died during a spa stay in Nice .

As a result, Regine Neustetel and her two children moved their residence from Hanau to Heidelberg, apparently in their parents' house. Here she met the Jewish director of the institute, Dr. phil. Salomon Theodor Jolberg (1800–1829), whom she married on November 16, 1826 in Gemmingen . With that little Emma and her sister got a stepfather. The family then took up residence in Stuttgart . Not long after the marriage , Regine and Theodor Jolberg converted to the Protestant faith, in which Emma was now also raised. In her mother's new connection, she had two children, who soon died. Due to the very early death of her second husband, Regine Jolberg moved back to Heidelberg with her two little girls, where she only devoted herself to raising them and caring for her old father.

In 1840, when Emma was already 17 years old, the family moved to Leutesheim , where the very wealthy mother founded a work school and then a motherhouse for nannies at her own expense out of religious and social responsibility. Forced to move, Regine Jolberg (after a short stopover in Langenwinkel !) Chose Nonnenweier in 1851 as the new home of her Protestant deaconess house, where countless sisters were trained.

It is unknown whether Emma took part in this last move, as she probably married the hydraulic engineer Eduard Heinrich Cuno (* 1818) between shortly before 1850 and 1860. With this she moved to Torgau in 1861 , where he worked as a hydraulic engineering inspector. Since he can be shown to have fully integrated himself very quickly into urban life there, this can also be assumed from his wife Emma. In 1870 Cuno, he was a secret government and building officer, moved from Torgau to the Rhineland , where he and his wife chose Wiesbaden as their place of residence. Here he was a member of the government, creator of the Rhine corrections in the Rheingau and the canalization of the Main. After the death of her husband in 1893, Emma Cuno took up residence in Überlingen , in the Villa Bilfinger, where she ultimately died.

For decades she had worked as a religiously influenced writer for children and young people, but also other texts. It can be traced back to 120 titles, most of which, however, came out in the "Nonnenweier Kinderschriften" printed in Lahr. Her mother Regine Jolberg uses this thin row of notebooks to maintain contact with sisters outside of Germany, to whom she always had the notebooks sent from the Nonnenweier motherhouse.

Works

• Thaurecht der Liebe to Israel (Karlsruhe, 1855).
• The Lord's Mission to Israel (Karlsruhe, 1865).
• First gifts. A collection of Nonnenweier stories (Barmen, 1870).
• Souvenir sheets from Neuenahr (Mühlheim, 1872).
• The worker is worth his wages (Karlsruhe, 1876).
• The pearl found - truth and experience (Karlsruhe, 1878)
• Eduard Heinrich Cuno, glimpses into his intellectual workshop "(Stuttgart, 1896).
• Flowers that do not wither (Kinderschrift, 1919).
• A Christmas party at Schaumburg (1922).

literature

• Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of the German women of the pen, vol. 1, Berlin 1898, p. 141.
• Hans-Jürgen Rieckenberg: Jolberg, Regine, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB), Vol. 10, Berlin 1974, pp. 585 ff.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Cuno, Eduard Heinrich (and Cuno, Emma)", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 20.