Franziska von Fritsch

Franziska von Fritsch

Franziska von Fritsch ( born Franziska Ruf ; born March 10, 1828 in Markt Bibart , † March 18, 1904 in Riedenburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Franziska von Fritsch was born as Franziska Ruf in Markt Bibart in the Rezat district in 1828 . In Munich she was trained as an educator, as she worked in the following years. She married the Austrian governor Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Fritsch in Linz, through whom she came into contact with Adalbert Stifter , Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg and Franz Isidor Proschko . Stifter encouraged Franziska von Fritsch to publish her work Christmas Festivals , which appeared in 1861. In the following years she published more novellas, short stories and poems. She had particular success with her tragedy Heli , which appeared in 1882 and was performed several times in Graz. She lived temporarily in Munich before she died widowed near Salzburg in 1904.

Franziska von Fritsch published some of her works under the pseudonym "Fr. Staufen".

Works

• Christmas festivities. A story for German-minded people. Teubner, Leipzig 1861. ( digitized version )
• Helicopter. Tragedy in five acts. Merhoff, Munich 1882.
• A home. Novel. Hinstorff, Danzig / Leipzig / Vienna 1887.
• The language cleaners. Stagger in 3 lifts. Ottmann, Leipzig 1892.

literature

• Heinrich Groß (Hrsg.): German female poets and writers in words and pictures . Ms. Thiel, Berlin 1885, p. 311 ff.
• Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , p. 366.
• Fritsch, Mrs. Franziska v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 238 ( digitized version ).