Frances Külpe

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Frances Külpe (born February 20 July / March 4, 1862 greg. As Frances James in Bytosch , Orjol Gouvernement , today in the Brjansk Oblast ; † December 24, 1936 in Muralto / Canton Ticino ) was a Baltic German writer.

Life

Frances Külpe was the daughter of the British industrialist John Benisson James and the Baltic German Marie born. Hentzelt. It was taught by private tutors until 1874 . She then attended German secondary schools in Mitau and Dorpat and trained as a private tutor , which she graduated from in 1879. After further musical studies, she embarked on a two-year journey that took her to the Black Sea and Constantinople .

In 1882 she married the painter Rudolf Julius von zur Mühlen in Dorpat . The marriage, which resulted in two daughters, was divorced in 1887. In 1888 she moved with her children to Riga , where she made her first attempts at writing in the following years. In 1892 she married the Kurland pastor Ernst Külpe, a brother of the psychologist Oswald Külpe . She lived with him in the province of Courland and from 1901 in Mitau . Due to a serious lung disease from Ernst Külpes, the family moved to Nervi , Italy , where the husband died in 1905. Frances Külpe stayed in Nervi for several years before moving to Munich in 1908 . She was in contact with Richard Dehmel and Paul Heyse , among others . Frances Külpe later lived in Garda on Lake Garda and most recently in Ascona .

Frances Külpe was the author of novels and short stories , most of which are set in the Baltic States . She had her greatest success with the novel Mutterschaft , published in 1907 , which by 1942 had a total circulation of over 170,000 copies.

Works

Red days: Baltic novellas from the revolutionary era , 1910
  • Open-air sketches from Russia and others , Wörishofen 1901
  • Wera Minajew , Leipzig 1902
  • The island of life , Berlin 1906
  • Three people , Berlin [u. a.] 1907, online
  • Maternity , Berlin 1907
  • The Son of Sorrows , Berlin 1909
  • Doppelseele , Munich [u. a.] 1910
  • Red days , Berlin 1910
  • Paths of Love , Munich [u. a.] 1911
  • The silver garden. The stone of Pietro , Leipzig 1911
  • On the Volga , Berlin 1912
  • Children of love , Munich [u. a.] 1912
  • The machine. Novella. In: German Monthly for Russia , 7 (1912), pp. 607–621 ( digitized in the LNB )
  • Ring , Munich [u. a.] 1914
  • The blue fire , Munich 1918
  • The Reich , Munich 1923
  • The way in the fog , Munich 1925
  • Imogen , Munich 1929
  • Mothers and Daughters , Erlenbach-Zurich [u. a.] 1931
  • And daughters become mothers , Erlenbach-Zürich [u. a.] 1931
  • A childhood , Erlenbach-Zurich [u. a.] 1934

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personal data
SURNAME Külpe, Frances
ALTERNATIVE NAMES James, Frances (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytosh , Oryol Governorate
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1936
Place of death Muralto