Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg

Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg 1875

Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg , b. Tengström, (born September 2, 1807 in Jakobstad , † May 27, 1879 in Helsinki ), was a Finnish-Swedish writer.

Life

Fredrika was the daughter of Carl Fredrik Tengström and Anna Margaretha Bergbom and grew up with three sisters and four brothers. Fredrika learned to read at the age of five, but only went to school for two years and was tutored at home by her brother Karl from the age of seven. The main focus of the lessons were religion and German. Fredrika later went to a girls' boarding school in Turku , where she learned French and English.

She was married to her relative Johan Ludvig Runeberg , with whom she had eight children: Anna Carolina (1832–1833), Ludvig Mikael (* 1835), Lorenzo (* 1836), Walter Magnus Runeberg (* 1838), Johan Wilhelm (* 1843), Jakob Robert (* 1846), Edvard Moritz (* 1848) and Fredrik Karl. The family lived in Helsinki and Porvoo .

Fredrika Runeberg is considered Finland's first female journalist and the first author to critically analyze the position of women in society and the family. From 1833–1836 she worked for the editors of the Helsingfors Morgonbladet newspaper , published her own articles and translated articles from other languages ​​into Swedish. She was Finland's first newspaper editor.

In 1843 Fredrika Runeberg wrote the historical novel Fru Catharina Boije och hennes döttrar ( Mrs. Catharina Boije and her daughters ), but did not dare to publish it until 1858 because she feared the public's reaction to her critical questions about the position of women.

Her next novel, Sigrid Liljeholm , was published in 1862, but received such scathing reviews that she gave up writing a novel. The literary scholar Maria Lival-Lindström attributes the negative reception of the novel to the fact that the story does not end with a marriage for the female main character.

At the end of the 1860s, Fredrika Runeberg began her autobiography Min pennas saga (The story of my pen) , in which her literary activity is in the foreground and which only appeared in 1946.

Fredrika Runeberg was very critical of other writers. In a letter to her friend Augusta Lundahl, she comments on the novel Murgrönan ( The ivy , the first novel to be published in Finland) by Fredrika Wilhelmina Carstens as follows:

"By the way - what do you think of the publication with the title 'Murgrönan'? Writers are like singers: Those who can do something allow themselves to be asked endlessly and then remain silent, and the worst of all sing unsolicited while they should be quiet. "(January 11, 1841)

Fredrika Runeberg was buried next to her husband.

Works

• Fru Catharina Boije och hennes döttrar. En advise från stora ofredens tid. Finska Litteratursällskapet, Helsinki 1858.
• Teckningar och drömmar. Theodor Sederholm, Helsinki 1861.
• Sigrid Liljeholm. Theodor Sederholm, Helsinki 1862.
• Anteckningar om Runeberg. Min pennas saga (= Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland. Skrifter 310, ISSN  0039-6842 ). Mercator, Helsinki 1946 (posthumous).
• Receptbok (= Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland. Skrifter 652). Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, Helsinki 2003, ISBN 951-583-093-1 (posthumous).

Translations

• The story of my pen. Translated from the Finnish Swedish by Nadine Erler . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-99840-1 , doi : 10.3239 / 9783640998203 .
• Mrs. Catharina Boije and her daughters. A story from the time of great strife. Edited and translated from the Finnish Swedish by Nadine Erler. Verlag 28 Eichen, Barnstorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-940597-43-4 .
• Sigrid Liljeholm. Translated from Finnish Swedish and annotated by Nadine Erler. European Literature Publishing House, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86267-303-2 .

Biographies

• Fredrika Runeberg: Min pennas saga. Autobiography, 1946 (posthumously).
• Alexandra Gripenberg: Fredrika Runeberg. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 1904.
• Helena Westermarck: Fredrika Runeberg. En literary study. Söderström, Helsinki 1904.
• Karin Allardt Ekelund: Fredrika Runeberg. En biografisk och litteraturhistorisk studie (= Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland. Skrifter 291). Mercator, Helsinki 1942 (Helsingfors, Univ., Diss., 1942).
• Merete Mazzarella : Fredrika Charlotta född Tengström. En nationalskalds hustru (= Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland. Skrifter 700). Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland et al., Helsinki et al. 2007, ISBN 978-951-583-152-1 .

Web links

Commons : Fredrika Runeberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
• Runeberg's entry at FILI
• Entry with the Swedish Literature Society in Finland (black)
• Maria Lival-Lindström: Mot ett eget rum: the kvinnliga bildningsromanen i Finlands svenska litteratur . (PDF) Turku 2009. (Dissertation; Swedish)
• Text about Fredrika Runeberg (Finnish)
• Min pennas saga. (PDF, Swedish)
• Alexandra Gripenberg: Fredrika Runeberg. [1] (Finnish)
• Lotten Dahlgren: En stor mans hustru. [2] (Text (Swedish) about Fredrika Runeberg in the women's magazine Dagny, Issue 7, 1892, pp. 202-214; PDF; 2.9 MB).