Helene Weichardt

Your signature on the marriage certificate

Cover of one of her books

The obituary in the Eisenacher Zeitung

Martha Julie Antoinette Helene Weichardt , née Henkel , (born February 5, 1851 in Cassel , † May 16, 1880 in Görbersdorf ) was a German writer . She wrote under the pseudonym Ellen Lenneck .

Life

Helene Henkel was born in Kassel as the daughter of the Ministerial Secretary and former tutor of the three sons of the Elector of Hesse, Wilhelm Henkel, and the writer Friederike Henkel . At first she was drawn to music - her grandmother Antonie Arnold was a singer and actress at the theater in Kassel - but has devoted herself to writing since she was 14. At the age of 17 she had to leave Kassel: The family moved to Bern , where Wilhelm Henkel had received a position in the German embassy.

Only after her father's death did she go back to Germany with her mother in 1872. At first she lived in Berlin with her uncle Carl Heinrich Arnold , who worked as a court painter. She later moved with her mother to Eisenach , where she met the architect Karl Weichardt , who had designed the Eisenach City Theater, which was built at the time. Both married on November 1, 1879 in Eisenach. Six months later, Helene Weichardt died at the age of 29 in Görbersdorf near Oederan and was probably buried in the New Johannisfriedhof in Leipzig . Her grave has not been preserved. Her burial in Leipzig is understandable from the fact that Karl Weichardt built buildings in Leipzig for several years from 1880 onwards.

As Ellen Lenneck, Helene Weichardt published various short stories and novels in the 1870s, which appeared separately and as serial novels in magazines, including the Deutsche Roman Zeitung and the German Roman Library . Some of her works, including the novel Abendsonne , were published posthumously .

Works

• Bedford's heir. Novel in four parts. Jamle Berlin 1876.
• The Miss from Eppingheim. Novel in three parts. Hallberger Stuttgart 1878.
• Evening sun. Novel. 1882.

literature

• Weichardt, Helene . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 7. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 356.
• Weichardt, Ellen . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 329.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No copy can be found