Franziska Riotte
Anna Franziska Riotte (born May 18, 1845 in Grünstadt , † April 24, 1922 in Trier-Ehrang ) was a German painter and writer .
Life
Franziska Riotte was in Green City, the daughter of of St. Wendel originating portrait painter born Anton Riotte and its based in the city Philippina wife Franziska Völkel born.
The mother died just 6 days after the girl was born and father Riotte moved to Trier with his daughter in 1859.
Franziska Riotte spent most of her life here on the Moselle . She remained single and earned her living mainly from pastel painting , which she learned from her father and in which she was very talented. There are still a large number of her portraits in the Trier and St. Wendel area. A beautiful self-portrait, now in the St. Wendel Museum, is particularly well known .
Franziska Riotte also worked as a writer. She wrote decidedly Christian literature, but also pure entertainment. Her best-known book is the historical novel "Hermione" , an episode from early Christianity in Trier, which was published in 1893 by the Catholic Paulinus publishing house there. Here Riotte writes in the foreword:
“The life of Christians in the early days of the Church, in the centuries of bloody persecution, is far too little known, although important scholars such as de Rossi , de Waal , Wisemann , Ott etc. have written about it. The stories linked to historical facts are mostly played out in Rome. Our novel "Hermione", however, takes us to the Moselle region and is set in old Trier ... In Trier, too, the Church of Christ had to gloriously work its way up through similar bloody events as in Rome and deal with this great time, based on historical facts Novel. We therefore hope that this book will not send any superfluous work into the world. "
In 1921 she published the two humoresques “The beautiful Greek” and “The amateur photographer” at the Marnet publishing house in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . Franziska Riotte sometimes published under the pseudonym "Feodora" or "Feodora Riotte" and also translated literature from English and French.
Franziska Riotte died in the Marienkrankenhaus in Trier-Ehrang.
Literary works
- "Theodulf - A song from old times" , Bachem-Verlag, Cologne, 1888
- "Hermione - a novel from the first Christian period of the city of Trier" , 1893, Paulinus-Verlag, Trier, several new editions a. a. 1906 and 1930 and in "Darbach's Novellenkranz"
- "How I came to my wife" , 1891
- "Bells of Vineta" , 1898
- "Rhine trip" , 1903
Appreciations
In Saarbrücken and St. Wendel streets were named after her.
literature
- Viktor Carl: “Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities” , Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben, 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , pages 710/711
- Walter Lampert: "1100 Years of Grünstadt" , Grünstadt City Administration, 1975, pages 382/383
- Riotte, Miss Franziska . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 194 ( digitized version ).
- Monz, Heinz (Ed.): Trier Biographical Lexicon . Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 373.
- Wilhelm Kosch: "The Catholic Germany" , Biographisch-Bibliographisches Lexikon, Augsburg 1930 to 1938
Web links
- Website of the Museum St. Wendel, u. a. with information on the Riotte family of painters
- Entry for Franziska Riotte in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Personal page from the database "Project Historical Novel"
- Article about paintings by the artist in the Trier City Museum
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riotte, Franziska |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riotte, Anna Franziska (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1922 |
| Place of death | Trier honor |