Emma Waiblinger

Emma Waiblinger (born July 7, 1897 in Düsseldorf , † November 30, 1923 in Eßlingen am Neckar ) was a German writer.

Emma Waiblinger grew up with her three siblings in Eßlingen am Neckar. She wrote plays and short stories as a child. After attending women's labor school and household school, she began training at the Stuttgart kindergarten teachers' seminar in 1914 and then worked for three years as a nanny in a Stuttgart family , although she actually wanted to take on hospital services during the First World War . During this time, she wrote her first novel, The Streams of the Nameless , which was published in 1920. In 1918 she began training as a midwife in Tübingen . She later worked in this profession in her hometown of Esslingen.

The streams of the nameless , a development novel, was compared by a publisher with Keller's Grünes Heinrich , but it caused a sensation and offense in the audience mainly because of the emancipated attitude of the female protagonist.

Emma Waiblinger later worked for a while in Gaienhofen as a nanny in the household of the couple Dorle and Ludwig Finckh , to whom her first novel is dedicated. It was there that she wrote her second novel. Because of a severe bowel disease, she spent some time in a Swiss sanatorium and then returned to Esslingen in autumn 1923. There she prepared to emigrate to America, which she then did not put into practice. At the end of November, Emma Waiblinger shot herself in her parents' apartment at Turmstrasse 12 in Eßlingen after burning the manuscript for her second novel.

Gretchen Wohlwill made a portrait drawing of Emma Waiblinger in October 1922.

In 2003 staged readings from The Streams of the Nameless were carried out in Eßlingen. On the day of the cemetery in 2008, a reading with texts by Emma Waiblingers was held at the Ebershaldenfriedhof .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.schauspieler-agentur.de/Veyisoglu_Elif/index.html
2. ↑ http://presse.esslingen.de/ekomm/presse/paweb.nsf/0aa9d75a8af56ea0c1256bc400461926/ed6c625ba54d1865c1257473001b29d8?OpenDocument

literature

• Irene Ferchl : I feel the purest happiness floating away from poetry. Six women who write from three centuries . In: Irene Ferchl, Ute Harbusch, Thomas Scheuffelen (eds.): Literary traces in Esslingen. "This is a city" . Bechtle, Esslingen 2003, ISBN 3-7628-0571-7 , pp. 123-135
• Rosemarie Tietz : Anna Schieber - Emma Waiblinger - Isolde Kurz. Three women writers in Esslingen am Neckar. With illustrations after drawings by Georg Koschinski . Esslingen 1987

Web links

• Literature by and about Emma Waiblinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• "The rivers of the nameless". Digitized, limited preview of the original edition: [1]
• Portrait by Henner Reitmeier, 2016