Helene Wachsmuth

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Helene Wachsmuth , full name Helene Elisabeth Friederike Karoline Sophia Wachsmuth née Schröder , (born September 21, 1844 in Halenbeck , † January 2, 1931 in Sürth near Cologne ), was a German painter and writer . The pseudonyms H. Wachsmuth and H. Dorne are ascribed to her.

Life

Her parents were the landowner Carl Christian Friedrich Schröder (1807–1873) and his wife Paulina Franziska Dorothea Fredenhagen (1821–1910), both of whom died in Berlin. With her eleven siblings, of whom Johann, Otto, Pauline and Mariechen are still known by name, she grew up well protected on the parental "Rittergut Halenbeck".

Reports left by Helene Wachsmuth show that the farm complex had a butter mill called a Göpelmühle , which was driven by a horse and thus processed part of the daily milk production of 90 cows into butter. In addition, sheep whose wool was sold on the Berlin wool market are kept and flax is grown. The work is done by day laborers whose families lived in farmhouses and had their own cows, pigs and chickens. The houses were entered by two families via a common entrance and each had a stove on the left and right as well as separate entrances to the floor .

Up to the age of 14, she and her siblings were tutored by private tutors , in order to then attend the Stoephasius School in Landsberg an der Warthe . The sons Kurt, Georg and Johannes Wachsmuth came from his marriage to Georg Friedrich Wachsmuth in Guben in 1865 . The family lived in Berlin, Steinmetzstrasse 78. She died at the age of 87 in Sürth near Cologne, in the house of her son Kurt Wachsmuth.

During the dispute between Anna von Krane (1853-1937) and Sophie Pataky (* 1860) in 1898 , Helene Wachsmuth, who was chairwoman of the German Writers' Union at the time , tried to get a reply in favor of Sophie Pataky. The editor of the magazine Das Recht der Feder , Martin Hildebrand, declined this request.

“I am overwhelmed by the thought that something of the work of my hands will defy the unfavorable time of my day and survive to please those who come after me. Such a tree donates its shade, offers its beauty even after centuries to the faster changing human sexes. They will still enjoy my good deed long after they have forgotten me, and yet I have not lived in vain. "

- From the Polinae trilogy, 1913

plant

  • 1848: Little revolutionary. Chat, short story ( text as PDF )
  • around 1850 : chat about the first train journey. report
  • 1891: The Mission Bride. Roman, Janke, 1891, 300 pages
  • 1907: Poland suffering. Roman, O. Janke, 1907
  • Fatum Poloniae Roman
  • 1909: Theophile Sobieska. historical story, Zwißler, 1909, 268 pp.
  • 1913: Johann Sobieski the Crown General. Novel from the history of Poland, Zwißler, 1913, 431 pp.
  • 1913: There were two royal children. Novel from the history of Poland, Zwißler, 1913, 434 pp.

literature

  • Wachsmuth, Mrs. Helene . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 401 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1901
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 8 vols., Leipzig 1913
  • Arno Will: Prawda o Polsce w powieściach historycznych Heleny Wachsmuth. In: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Seria 1: Nauki humanistyczno-społeczne 43, Łódź 1966, pp. 175-187. German Summary: The truth about Poland in the historical novels by Helene Wachsmuth , p. 186 f.
  • Petra Budke, Jutta Schulze: women writers in Berlin 1871–1945. A lexicon on life and work . Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 1995, 407 p., P. 365

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After Ms. W.'s copy of Böcklin's "Gefilde der Seeligen" (Gefilde der Seeligen), the R. Bong publishing house made the reproduction in color. - quoted from Wachsmuth, Frau Helene . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 401 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ mandrels, H. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 165 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Frauenwachsmuth ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 9, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frauenwachsmuth.ch
  4. ↑ Notes on the partial estate of Sophie Pataky (1860-?) In the archive of the German women's movement in Kassel ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB), accessed on April 9, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / forge.fh-potsdam.de
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmuth, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Helene Elisabeth Friederike Karoline Sophia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Halenbeck
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1931
Place of death Sürth