Mrs. Buchholz in the Orient
Frau Buchholz im Orient is a travelogue that Julius Stinde published in 1888 under the pseudonym Wilhelmine Buchholz in the Berlin publishing house Freund & Jeckel.
In this volume, Stinde's own voice can be heard more clearly than in other Buchholz books, in which the Berlin tone of the fictional writer is more prominent. This may be due to the speed with which Stinde wrote the book after the trip: the trip took place in the spring of 1888, and the book was printed in November of the same year. Probably as a result of this excessive writing effort, he had to inform an unknown recipient on November 25th, 1888 that he was "currently unable to write". (Letter from Stinde in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library in Kiel.)
Anyone looking for evidence that Stinde actually made the trip described will find evidence in many forms. Two letters from Stinde from 1888 have survived, one of which was sent to his publisher Carl Freund in Larnaka, Cyprus, the second was sent from Constantinople to Ernst von Wildenbruch.
There are also some magazine articles based on the material that arose on Stinde's trip to the Orient. Dog life in Constantinople (in: Daheim 25, 1888/89, pp. 680–682), From Kairos Araberstadt (in: Daheim 28, 1891/92, pp. 44–46), excursion to the pyramids (in: Daheim 31, 1894/95, p. 299) and An den Jordan (in: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte 10, 1895/96, II, pp. 155–166).
In the Stinde estate at the Berlin State Library there are also two letters from participants on the Orient trip who thank Ms. Buchholz for sending them to the Orient and commemorate the time spent traveling together: Lieutenant Fischer and Victor Pribyl, who is called Prybil at Stinde.
The historian Wilhelm Treue wrote an article about the book in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel of December 25, 1975 under the title The Buchholzen in Virchows Bett? Published on literary freedom and historical truth , in which he refers to the publication of letters from Rudolf Virchow to his wife, in which Virchow reports on the progress of his trip to the Orient. The mention of Virchow in Stinde's travel report goes back to the fact that Virchow had traveled on the Nile steamer shortly before Stinde. The "Lieutenant Fischer" mentioned by Stinde is also called by Virchow as "Lieutenant Fischer from Oldenburg". Virchow's letters are printed in the magazine Die Waage , Volume 13 (1974), pages 1-20.
In the year of the first edition, another 23 editions were printed by Ms. Buchholz in the Orient . The 30th edition appeared in 1892, the last verifiable is the 37th edition published by Grote in 1926.
literature
- Nana Badenberg: Journey to Egypt in the footsteps of Virchow and Schliemann . 1888: Julius Stinde's "Frau Buchholz im Orient". In: Alexander Honold, Klaus R. Scherpe (Ed.): With Germany around the world . A cultural history of the foreign in colonial times. Pp. 106-114
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Individual evidence
- ↑ see Ulrich Goerdten's list of letters in Bibliography Julius Stinde , Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2001, p. 110.