Emma Haushofer Merk

Emma Haushofer-Wish (* 15. June 1854 in Munich , † 11 July 1925 ibid ) was a German writer and women's rights activist.

Career

She was born as the daughter of the painter Eduard Merk and his wife Margarethe Merk, b. Carpenter (1823–1889) in Munich, Schönfeldstr. 8 (Maxvorstadt) born.

In 1902 Emma Merk married the economist, politician and writer Max Haushofer Jr. She died in Munich in 1925. Her ashes were buried in the family grave of her husband on Fraueninsel in the Chiemsee.

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Political action

Emma Haushofer-Wish was one of the co-founders of 1894 by Anita Augspurg launched Society for the Promotion of intellectual interests of the woman , now the Association for Women's Interests . From 1912 to 1913 she was its chairman. In 1913 she founded the Association of Munich Writers together with the writer Carry Brachvogel . Important women such as Ricarda Huch and Annette Kolb joined this association . Her literary salon invited "women in motion" to her apartment on Schönfeldstrasse in Munich-Schwabing every week.

Writing

In her stories, short stories and novels, she deals with women's issues from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition, her works give detailed insights into contemporary everyday life in Munich. In 1913 Ludwig Thoma and Georg Queri included her in their Bayernbuch as one of five female authors among a hundred authors and praised her as the “author of numerous psychological novels and sketches”. Some of her works have been reissued by Allitera Verlag Munich.

Works

• It glowed with weather. Munich novel. (I. Richardsen, ed.) New edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-761-2 .
• Old Munich stories. (I.Richardsen, ed.) New edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-706-3 .
• The Lierbachs girls. (I.Richardsen, ed.) New edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-824-4 .

literature

• Ingvild Richardsen : The women's island. On the trail of the forgotten women artists of Frauenchiemsee. Volk Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86222-222-3 .
• Ingvild Richardsen: Eva's daughters. Munich writers and the modern women's movement 1894–1933. Volk Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86222-271-1 .
• Ingvild Richardsen: Passionate hearts, fiery souls. How women changed the world. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397457-7 .
• Ingvid Richardsen: The modern women's movement and the Munich writers' association (1913-1933). in: Waldemar Fromm, Manfred Knedlik, Marcel Schellong (eds.): History of literature in Munich. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-7245-5 . Pp. 330-335.
• Ingvild Richardsen: Free and equal and worthy. The women's movement and the First Bavarian Women's Day 1899. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2019.

Web links

• Emma Merk: The longed-for hour. In: Project Gutenberg-DE . 
• Ingvild Richardsen: Emma Haushofer-Merk. In: Literaturportal Bayern . 
• Stories: Emma Haushofer-Merk - women's rights activist and writer from Munich. Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 17, 2019. 
• Michaela Metz: Radical, also with yourself. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 16, 2015, accessed April 3, 2020 . 
• Women on the move: Participants in the first Bavarian Women's Day (1899). In: Literature Radio Hörbahn. October 13, 2019. 
• On the Fraueninsel, Munich writers, the bourgeois women's movement - new walks and topics in the Bavarian literature portal. Bavarian State Library , June 1, 2018. 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Old Munich stories . (I.Richardsen, ed.) New edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-706-3 , pp. 8-17.
2. ↑ Emma Haushofer-Merk . In: Literaturportal Bayern . Retrieved April 6, 2020.
3. ^ Ingvild Richardsen: The women island. On the trail of the forgotten women artists of Frauenchiemsee. Volk Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86222-222-3 , p. 340.
4. ↑ Ingvid Richardsen: The modern women's movement and the Munich writers Club (1913-1933). in: Waldemar Fromm, Manfred Knedlik, Marcel Schellong (eds.): History of literature in Munich. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7917-7245-5 . P. 331.
5. ↑ Ingvild Richardsen: Free and equal and worthy. The women's movement and the First Bavarian Women's Day 1899.Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2019, p. 30.
6. ^ Ingvild Richardsen: Eva's daughters. Munich writers and the modern women's movement 1894–1933. Volk Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86222-271-1 , p. 70.
7. ↑ It glowed with weather. Munich novel. (I.Richardsen, ed.) New edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86906-761-2 , p. 152.