Henriette Hanke

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Memorial plaque for Henriette Hanke on her house in Jauer

Henriette Wilhelmine Hanke , born Arndt (* 24. June 1785 in Jawor , Lower Silesia; † 15. July 1862 ibid) was a writer of the late Romantic period .

Life

She was born in 1785 in Jauer (Lower Silesia) as one of five daughters of the businessman Johann Jakob Arndt and is considered one of the most successful authors of the first half of the 19th century. At the age of 20 she was forced to marry the much older widowed pastor Gottfried Heinrich Carl Hanke from Dyhernfurth and devoted herself to raising his six children from his first marriage; she was his third wife. During her time in Dyhernfurth she was in frequent contact with the family of the local landowner, Count von Hoym , which is later reflected in her novels , because the highest district there is always a Silesian castle. After Hanke's death in 1819, she returned to her parents 'house in Jauer and spent the rest of her life in her parents' old apartment.

Signature Henriette Hanke: Henriette Hanke geb. Arndt

She began her career with a series of family novels, which were aimed primarily at women and aroused general admiration. Later she moved on to didactic works, where one finds much of the sentimental enthusiasm of popular romanticism. She always wanted to be there as a comforter and advisor for other lonely women after her own unhappy marriage, to give them the feeling of comforting togetherness by reading her novels and short stories , to communicate with them. She left a total of 64 volumes of the "Collected Works" (Hanover 1860 edition). Some of her works have been a. Translated into English, Swedish, Danish, Russian and Polish.

Henriette Hanke died in Jauer in 1862 and was buried in the cemetery of the Jauer Church of Peace . Her grave disappeared around 1970. In 1997 she was honored with a plaque on her home in Jauer.

Works

  • 1821: The foster daughter
  • 1822: Diana Hunting Lodge and Wally's garden. Two stories
  • 1822/25: Images of the Heart and the World (1822–1825)
  • 1823: Claudia
  • 1824: the Christmas tree
  • 1828: The pearls
  • 1830: The mother-in-law
  • 1831: aunt and niece. in: Newspaper for the elegant Wellt., Berlin, 1831
  • 1841/57: Novels and short stories (126 volumes, last edition 1841–1857)
  • 1854/57: My winter garden. Small accounts from life (4 volumes, 1854–1857)

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century . Volume 3. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 149–156.
  • Hermann Palm:  Hanke, Henriette . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 514.
  • Heinrich Groß: German poets and writers in words and pictures . Volume 1. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, pp. 190-199.
  • Heinrich Meisner: memories of Jauer . Jauer 1927.
  • Arno Lubos : Silesian literature of romanticism and popular romanticism . Munich 1978.

Web links

Wikisource: Henriette Hanke  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goggle Books (online) , (including 1403)
personal data
SURNAME Hanke, Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arndt, Henriette Wilhelmine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Late Romantic writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Yeah
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1862
Place of death Yeah