Emmi Lewald

Emmi Lewald

Emilie Auguste Marie Lewald (born December 5, 1866 in Oldenburg , † September 29, 1946 in Apolda ) was a German writer and suffragette .

Life

As the second daughter of the government assistant and later Minister of State Günther Jansen (1831–1914) and his wife Marie Frommelt (1843–1928), she grew up in her hometown with an educated middle-class upbringing in which her writing talent could develop freely. In 1888 she published her first work as "Contemporary character study from German salons" under the pseudonym Emil Roland, which she continued to keep for the most part. Due to an indiscretion, the publication in Oldenburg caused a scandal, as the Oldenburg Society believed that the main characters mentioned in the work were officers of the local garrison who had been alienated from literature. Lewald withdrew from the hostility and left Oldenburg for extended trips.

Volumes of poetry and short stories followed . She later published numerous novels and travelogues. The latter resulted from her travels through Germany, where the Wartburg was a preferred refuge, and Italy. On August 17, 1896, she married the Privy Finance Councilor Felix Lewald and moved to Berlin without giving up her ambivalent relationship to her hometown, which is partly reflected in her literary criticism of social backwardness. In Berlin she was also involved in the bourgeois women's movement, namely as a member of the board of directors of the German Women's Club and the board of the Lyceum Club as well as chairwoman of the Association of Berlin Artists and Art Friends (1909–1910). In addition, she became part of the Berlin salons and found increasing attention and recognition with her work there. She was also in contact with Bertha von Suttner .

After the death of her husband, she lived in a nursing home in Apolda . Your final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

Portrait of Emmi Lewald by Conrad Kiesel , 1909

• Our dear lieutenants. Contemporary character studies from German salons . Leipzig 1888. Digitized version of the Oldenburg State Library
• The Cantor of Orlamünde . Seals. Oldenburg 1890.
• Serious and cheerful . Novellas and sketches. Jena 1891.
• In a discreet way . Bath novella. North / Norderney 1892.
• The Story of a Smile , and other short stories, Berlin 1894.
• Miss Kunigunde . Novella. Berlin 1894.
• Poems . Oldenburg 1894.
• His me . Novel. Berlin 1896.
• Italian landscape paintings. Sketch. Oldenburg 1897.
• Children of time . Novellas. Berlin 1897.
• In the blue distance. New novellas. Berlin 1898.
• The educator . Novel. Stuttgart 1899.
• Emotional cliffs . Novellas. Berlin 1900.
• The luck of the Hammerfelds . Novel. Berlin-Eisenach-Leipzig 1900.
• The courage to be happy . Novellas. Berlin 1901
• Poems . New episode. Oldenburg-Leipzig 1901.
• The Book of Fate , and other short stories. Berlin 1904.
• Sylvia . Novel. Stuttgart 1905.
• The marriage question and other short stories. Stuttgart 1906.
• The lifesaver . Novel in letters. Stuttgart 1907.
• The home bread of life . Novel. Berlin 1908.
• The Magnetberg . Novel. Berlin 1911.
• Still water . Novellas. Stuttgart 1912.
• The defenseless . Novel. Berlin 1912.
• The rose in front of the door . Novel. Berlin 1912.
• The sore point . Novellas. Berlin 1914.
• Excelsior! Novel. Berlin 1914.
• Under the blood beeches . Novel. Berlin 1915. Digitized version of the Oldenburg State Library
• In those years . Memoirs. Berlin 1919.
• The woman from yesterday . Novel. Berlin 1920.
• Livets Verdagskost . Stockholm 1920. [Swedish]
• The Miss von Güldenfeld . Novel. Berlin 1922.
• Lethe . Novel. Dresden 1924.
• The lady from town . Novel. Berlin 1929.
• Heinrich von Gristede. Novel. Detmold 1934.
• Office madness . Novel. Detmold 1935.

literature

• Ruth Steinberg-Groenhof: The writer Emmi Lewald (1866-1946). Female authorship, zeitgeist and literature market , Cologne a. a. (Böhlau) 2015, ISBN 3-412-22400-6 . ISBN 978-3-412-22400-4
• Lewald, Mrs. Emmi . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 497 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Roland, Emil . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 200 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Neubert: Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon, Leipzig 1905, p. 428.
• Max Geißler: Guide through the literature of the 20th century, Weimar 1913, p. 618.
• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 398.
• Lexikon der Frau , Vol. 2, Zurich 1954, p. 533.
• Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Vol. 9, Bern-Munich 1984, Sp. 1336-1337.
• Peter Haupt: Emilie Lewald b. Jansen. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 420-421 ( online ).
• German Biographical Encyclopedia, 2nd A., Vol. 6, Munich 2006, p. 407.
• Ruth Steinberg-Groenhof: The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice. To the grave of Emmi and Felix Lewald in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf. In: Kulturland Oldenburg. Journal of the Oldenburg landscape. No.1 (2011) = No.47, see. 30-33.

Web links

Wikisource: Emmi Lewald  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Emmi Lewald  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Emmi Lewald  in the German Digital Library