Hedwig shell

Margarethe Hedwig envelope , pseudonym Ludwig March (born January 25, 1794 in Ovelgönne ; † August 1, 1861 in Varel ) was a German poet, writer and teacher.

biography

Shell was the daughter of the lawyer Hermann Christian Hoffmeier (born around February 10, 1733 - October 23, 1810 in Ovelgönne). Her mother moved with her to the Harz Mountains . She married the spice merchant Johann Christian Mantel in Ovelgönne in 1815 and moved to Bremen in 1815 . Both had two daughters and a son. The daughter Marie Elise Christine envelope was born in Bremen on 1819. She married Johann Christian Baars (* 1822 in Wiefelstede) in Bremen in 1848. The daughter Sophia Helene envelope died in Bremen in 1824. In 1822 she wrote her first volume of poems, First Fruits of Spring . When her husband went blind in 1825, she intensified her literary work in order to make a living. In 1826 the free adaptation of the Odyssey was published . Goethe wrote to Karl Ludwig von Knebel : “... strange translation of the Odyssey? If you can't approve of it, you shouldn't scold it either. ”The work was more likely to have been criticized in the literary papers.

In 1828 she published Herbstrosen , a collection of poems and stories; further works followed. From 1845 she also worked as a teacher. She moved to Varel in 1848.

Works

First fruits of spring , collection of poems, Bremen 1822.
Odyssey of Odysseus . Adaptation of the Odyssey, Bremen 1826.
Autumn roses , poems and stories, Bremen 1828.
Seraphine , Romance in Letters, 1830.
The nose , one-act play, performed in the Bremen City Theater, Bremen 1830.
Poetry, thoughts and images . Collection of poems, Bremen 1836.
Bremen album for the year 1839 . Collection of stories, essays and poems.
The Hamburg fire . Poem, Bremen 1842.
The secrets of the carnival, drama, translation from the French, Bremen 1847.
Christmas story under the pseudonym Ludwig March, 1850.

Literature, sources

Edith Laudowicz : Cover, Margarethe Hedwig, geb. Hoffmeier (Hoffmeyer), pseudonym Ludwig March . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .

Web links

Works by Hedwig envelope in WorldCat

Individual references, comments

↑ Sheets for literary entertainment: “Mrs. Hedwig Shell has taken the greatest liberty and her odyssey has become so much a German one that the Greek, if you account for the names of the people and places and the material of the events, are difficult to recognize again would like to."
↑ Mitternachtsblatt for educated classes: “A woman in Bremen, ... has Homer's Odyssey in rhyming stanzas - so what do we best call it? Freely formed, she calls it; but one might believe that God knows what a modern, romantic ragout she would have made out of it. And if we wanted to say: freely translated; one might think that she had dealt with Homer as the poet at Sorau dealt with Virgil; Rhyme or I'll eat you! "

personal data
SURNAME	Shell, Hedwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Shell, Margarethe Hedwig (full name); March, Ludwig (pseudonym); Shell, Gretchen Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ovelgönne
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1861
Place of death	Varel

[1] Sheets for literary entertainment: “Mrs. Hedwig Shell has taken the greatest liberty and her odyssey has become so much a German one that the Greek, if you account for the names of the people and places and the material of the events, are difficult to recognize again would like to."

[2] Mitternachtsblatt for educated classes: “A woman in Bremen, ... has Homer's Odyssey in rhyming stanzas - so what do we best call it? Freely formed, she calls it; but one might believe that God knows what a modern, romantic ragout she would have made out of it. And if we wanted to say: freely translated; one might think that she had dealt with Homer as the poet at Sorau dealt with Virgil; Rhyme or I'll eat you! "