Emma Wuttke-Biller

Emma Wuttke-Biller

Grave site of the Wuttke family

Emma Wuttke-Biller (born March 7, 1833 in Breslau , † April 16, 1913 in Dresden ) was a German writer .

Life

Emma Biller was born on March 7, 1833 as the daughter of a city council in Breslau. She grew up with three sisters and received careful upbringing and training with them. In 1854 she married her cousin, the historian Heinrich Wuttke , who was a professor at the University of Leipzig. He involved them in his work and in his dealings with scientists. Heinrich Wuttke died in 1876. Emma Wuttke-Biller then started working as a writer. She moved to Munich with her sister Clara Biller , who was also active as a writer, from where she moved to Dresden in 1886 to the house of her son Robert Wuttke . At times she also lived in Paris, Switzerland and Northern Italy. She died in Dresden in 1913. She published mostly girls' literature, short stories and novels as well as historical novels .

Works

• Trinchen of Gantersheim . Comedy. Wöller, Leipzig 1877.
• Coals of fire . Narrative. With 4 color prints after watercolors by Richard Ernst Kepler . Hanselmann, Stuttgart 1885.
• The house daughter. A story for girls aged 10 to 15. With 4 color prints after watercolors by Carl Offterdinger . Thienemann, Stuttgart 1884.
• Heinz the Latin. A school story for children aged 10-14. Perthes, Gotha 1884.
• Barbara Ittenhausen. An Augsburg family life in the 16th century. Reissner, Dresden 1884. ( digitized version ) 4th edition 1888.
• Margravine Barbara of Brandenburg . Reissner, Dresden 1886. ( restricted access )
• From four centuries. Stories for children. Perthes, Gotha 1880.
• Ulli. Story of a naughty girl. Reissner, Leipzig 1882. 4th edition Thienemann, Stuttgart 1902.
• The power of gold. By a true story. Perthes, Gotha 1887.
• Under the scepter of the court master. A Danish court story from the end of the 16th century. Reissner, Leipzig 1888.
• A man a word! Story of a German knight from the Crusades. Abel & Müller, Leipzig 1888. 2nd edition 1899.
• Our eldest. A story for young girls. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1889. 2nd edition 1893.
• Happy Holidays. Telling little girls. With four color prints after watercolors by Eugen Klimsch . Thienemann, Stuttgart 1889. ( digitized version )
• The siblings. A story from the German war of liberation. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1890. 2nd edition 1903.
• The confusion aunt. A story for young girls. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1891.
• Helen's diary. A year out of a girl's life. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1892.
• The youngest. A story for adult young girls. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1896.
• Mandatory. A family story from the Wars of Liberation. Reissner, Dresden and Leipzig 1896.
• Lina Bodmer. A story from the time of the Wars of Liberation. Lehmann, Munich 1899. 2nd edition under the title: Kriegsnot. Based on the real experiences of a family near Dresden during the years 1806-1813. With many illustrations based on originals by Hans W. Schmidt-Weimar . Dietrich, Munich 1910.
• Two cousins. A story for adult young girls. With eight inset pictures by Fritz Bergen . Thienemann, Stuttgart 1902
• A grandmother's fairy tale. With 3 full color pictures and book decorations by Walter Tiemann . Brandstetter, Leipzig 1904.
• In the enchanted little castle. A story for adult young girls. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1900.

literature

• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 8th 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, pp. 58–59.
• Sophie Pataky: Lexicon of German women of the pen . Berlin 1898, Volume 2, p. 455.
• Fritz Abshoff (Hrsg.): Bildende Geister. Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg 1905, p. 129.
• Otto Brunken, Bettina Hurrelmann, Maria Michels-Kohlhage and Gisela Wilkending (eds.): Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1850 to 1900 , sp. 1014-1020.

Web links

Wikisource: Emma Wuttke-Biller  - Sources and full texts

• Letters and documents on family history in the Kalliope network