Ferdinande von Brackel

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Ferdinande von Brackel
Ferdinande von Brackel 1) around 1852 and 2) around 1900
Binding of "The Art Rider's Daughter", 7th edition. 1891

Ferdinande Maria Theresia Freiin von Brackel (born November 24, 1835 in Welda , † January 4, 1905 in Paderborn ) was a well-known Westphalian writer from the von Brackel family . She also published under the pseudonym E. Rudorf .

Life

Ferdinande von Brackel was born at Welda Castle as the daughter of Franz Ferdinand Freiherr von Brackel (1790–1873) and his wife Charlotte von Asbeck († 1884). The grandfather Franz Georg Ignaz von Brackel, Chamberlain and Hofrat , married Wilhelmine Freiin von Haxthausen , the heiress of Welda Palace.

Sickly in her childhood, Ferdinande was taught by the local priest and encouraged or inspired by Emanuel Geibel to become literary. He stayed regularly in the neighboring Escheberg Castle , a meeting place of the North Hessian and Southeast Westphalian nobility. At the age of 17 she wrote her first novel. When her brother Hugo von Brackel , the former district administrator of the Paderborn district (1870–1875), was transferred to Plön as a punishment, she followed him there after her mother's death. She took care of the upbringing of the widowed brother's children. From 1898 she was resident again at Welda Castle as a canon.

Von Brackel wrote contemporary poems, prose poems and novels. She showed interest in social issues of her time. She was involved on the Catholic side with the representatives in the Kulturkampf . Her novel “ The Art Rider's Daughter ”, which brought her literary breakthrough, first appeared in the features section of the “Kölnische Volkszeitung” in 1875 and as a book in the autumn of the same year. It was translated into five languages ​​and by 1907 it had already had 25 editions. She published over twenty works.

Contemporary literary criticism judged her as the most talented and most important of the Catholic women writers, whose creations [...] were among the best achievements in female literature (Hinrichsen, 1891). As a writer with a keen interest in social issues, she first published contemporary poems that were pro - Prussian during the war years of 1864, 1866 and 1870 . In 1887 the poet immortalized the life of the sculptor Wilhelm Achtermann in the novella “The Spinning Teacher from Carrara” .

Von Brackel found her final resting place in the New Weldaer Friedhof (seven fields) in Warburg - Welda.

Others

Through the family of von Haxthausen's maternal ancestors, Ferdinande von Brackel is also related to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , whose mother was also a born von Haxthausen.

In Welda a street is named after the poet.

Works (selection)

  • Poems , 1873
  • Heinrich foundling . A story for people and youth. 1875
  • The rider's daughter . Roman 1875 digitized ( DjVu )
  • Not like everyone else . From far lands . Two novels. 1877
  • Daniella . Novel 1879
  • At the Heidstock . Novel 1881
  • Memories during three summer months on the road , 1882
  • Princess Ada , novella 1883
  • The spinning teacher from Carrara . An artist's novella in 1887
  • From the old trunk . Amendment 1889
  • In the struggle of time . Novel. 2 volumes. 1897
  • Novellas . (Content: Spring frenzy and autumn storms . Just a short story ). 1898
  • A sewing mummy . Novella 1900
  • Chic! . Amendment 1901
  • My life . Autobiography 1901
  • Who does the palm belong to? . Talisman . Two stories in 1905
  • Last serious . Five novellas, 1905

Works from the estate

  • The disinherited . Novel 1906
  • Lenz and me and you . Heart instincts . Two novellas produced by EM Hagemann, 1910
  • Nora

literature

  • Maria Werhahn: Ferdinande, Freiin von Brackel: her life and her works; especially her novels; (using unpublished manuscripts) , Münster (Westf.), Univ., Diss., Dec. 17, 1920.
  • Almanac for the hundredth birthday of Ferdinande Freiin von Brackel on November 24, 1935 . Bachem publishing house, Cologne 1935.
  • Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of women: a lexicon , Böhlau Verlag Cologne, Weimar, 2010; ISBN 3-412-20585-0 , Google Books
  • Walter Gödde, Iris Nölle-Hornkamp: Westphalian author lexicon. 1800 to 1850 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1994.
  • Herbert Jakob (edit.): German writer lexicon. 1830-1880. Goedecke's plan on the history of German poetry. Volume 1 (A-B) . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002120-9 .
  • Brackel, Ferdinande, Freiin v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Ferdinande von Brackel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ferdinande von Brackel  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source on parents .
  2. ↑ On the genealogy of the family .
  3. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 42.
  4. ^ The literature: Monthly for Literature Friends, Volume 10, p. 440, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1908.
  5. ↑ Schweizer Rundschau: Volume 8; Benziger & Co., 1908.
  6. ^ Adolf Hinrichsen: The literary Germany, Leipzig, Berlin, 2nd ed. 1891.
  7. ↑ http://www.nw-news.de/lokale_news/warburg/warburg/4010486_Aus_der_Feder_der_Ferdinande.html .
personal data
SURNAME Brackel, Ferdinande von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brackel, Ferdinande Maria Theresia Freiin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Welda
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1905
Place of death Paderborn