Frida Bettingen

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Frida Bettingen (born August 5, 1865 in Ronneburg , † May 1, 1924 in Jena ; born Frida Reuter ) was a German writer ( expressionist poet ).

Live and act

Frida Bettingen was born as the daughter of the Finance Councilor Karl Reuter in Ronneburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg . In 1885 she married the high school teacher Franz Bettingen. Her father died in the same year, and two years later her twin brother died. Their marriage resulted in two daughters and a son. The family lived in Krefeld for 24 years until Franz Bettingen's death , after which they moved to Jena. Bettingen's son studied philology there . He died in 1914 in the First World War, which led to serious psychological problems for Frida Bettingen. From 1917 she stayed several times in sanatoriums . In 1923 she was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. In between these stays, however, she was able to lead a largely normal life. She wrote poetry, the inspiration for which came mainly from her grief and despair as a mother. It was only with this late work that she took part in the Expressionist movement , supported by Wilhelm Schäfer .

In 1919 her first volume of poetry, Eva and Abel, was published. War year 1918, dedicated to the mothers. with a foreword by Schäfer. In it, she transferred aspects of her own life to the biblical theme of Eve mourning her son Abel . Bettingen already showed originality in rhythm and stanza form , which was further developed in her later poems.

After Bettingen's second volume of poems had been rejected by several publishers, Schäfer referred him to the Georg Müller publishing house, which published his works . It appeared in the winter of 1921 as a single edition of 620 copies with a preface by Schäfer and a picture by Frida Bettingen. The volume contains one poem from 1897, while the others were written during or after the war. Many do not have a fixed stanza form.

Frida Bettingen died in Jena at the age of 58. Her third volume of poetry, Himmelsbürde , was published posthumously in the magazine Das Gedicht. Leaves for the poetry of Heinrich Ellermann . Your estate is kept by the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

On November 22, 1957, the German literary scholar Walter Falk published a two-volume dissertation entitled Pain and Word: A Study of Frida Bettingen as a Poet of Pain . He assigned Bettinger's poems to Expressionism.

Works

  • Eva and Abel. War year 1918, dedicated to the mothers. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1919.
  • Poems. Georg Müller, Munich 1922 ( online, PDF ).
  • Heaven's Burden. In: The poem. Sheets for the poetry year 4, part 2, Verlag Heinrich Ellermann, Hamburg 1937.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Frida Bettingen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Schäfer: For guidance In: Gedichte von Frida Bettingen, Georg Müller, Munich 1922, p. IX.
  2. ^ Brian Keith-Smith (ed.): German Women Writers, 1900-1933: Twelve Essays. Volume 3 of Bristol German Publications, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston 1993, ISBN 0-77341-340-5 , p. 226.
  3. ↑ Hartmut Vollmer (ed.): "In red shoes the sun dances to death": poetry of expressionist female poets. Volume 2 of female poets of Expressionism, Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-868-15526-6 , p. 235.
  4. ^ Jo Catling: A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-44482-9 , p. 131.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Schäfer: For guidance In: Poems by Frida Bettingen, Georg Müller, Munich 1922, SX
  6. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Nekrolog, Saur, Munich 1936, p. 53.
  7. ^ Bettingen, Frida (1865-1924) dla-marbach.de. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Bettingen, Frida In: German Literature Lexicon: the 20th century; biographical-bibliographical manual vol. 2, Saur, Bern 2001, p. 470.
  9. ^ Paul Raabe: Bettingen, Frida In: The authors and books of literary expressionism: a bibliographical handbook. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Bettingen, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birth name Reuter, Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1924
Place of death Jena