Gustava Zinck
Gustava Zinck , née Gustava Raddatz (born September 6, 1821 in Rostock , † October 25, 1895 in Friedenau ) was a German poet . She mainly published under her pseudonym Auguste Zinck .
Life
Zinck was born as the daughter of a merchant family in Rostock. In 1841 she married the merchant August Zinck in Hamburg . The couple lived there until 1850 and then moved to Rostock. In 1856 the family moved to West Prussia and in 1869 the family moved to Dresden . From 1876 to 1884 Zinck lived alternately in Vienna and Berlin . Her husband died in 1884. Subsequently, until her own death in 1895, Zinck lived mostly with a daughter, the translator Marie von Borch (1853–1895), in Friedenau.
Zinck became known because her works, both poems and several comedies, were published in Low German . The composer Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken set several of her pieces to music and made her known to a wider audience during her lifetime.
Works
- Poems . Leipzig: 1869
- Every pot finds its lid. De Schoolinspeck already . Leipzig: Reclam, 1886, 48 pp.
literature
- Ludwig Julius Fränkel: Zinck, Gustava . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 311-313.
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 11201 .
Web links
- Literature about Gustava Zinck in the Landesbibliographie MV
- Gustava Zinck in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zinck, Gustava |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zinck, Auguste; Raddatz, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1895 |
| Place of death | Friedenau |