Isabella Braun
Isabella Braun (born December 12, 1815 in Jettingen , † May 2, 1886 in Munich ) was a German author of children's books.
Life
Isabella Braun was born in Jettingen in 1815 as the daughter of a pension administrator for Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, Bernhard Maria Braun, and his wife Euphemia. After her father's death in 1827, the family moved to Augsburg , where Isabella Braun attended the high school for girls of the English girls until 1834. Until 1836 she was trained as a teacher at the St. Ursula Teacher Training College in Augsburg and a year later she was employed at the elementary school in Neuburg an der Donau . When the school was handed over to monastic management in 1848, Isabella Braun was given early retirement and in the following years devoted herself to writing youth literature in addition to her work as a private teacher.
Her first work, Pictures from Nature , appeared in 1849; the foreword was written by the then very well-known folk writer Christoph von Schmid . In the following years numerous works appeared, which were soon published exclusively by Scheitlin in Stuttgart. After moving to Munich in 1854, she devoted herself to preparations for a magazine that she published under the title Youth Papers for Christian Entertainment and Instruction from 1855 until her death in 1886. In addition, she appeared as a salon lady and maintained contacts with personalities such as Count Franz von Pocci , Franz von Kobell , Friedrich Güll , Emanuel Geibel and Katharina Diez , who also published in the youth newspapers; Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria saw Isabella Braun as her literary mentor. Contacts with the von Knebel-Döberitz family enabled Isabella Braun to travel to Prussia and Pomerania. In Dusseldorf she came in contact with the painter Caspar Scheuren , and later she was a guest of the Russian Prince of Oldenburg and Prince Ludwig of Bavaria , later Ludwig II. In 1868, Duke Max in Bavaria awarded her the Golden Medal to promote Art and science honored, King Ludwig II honored her in 1879 as one of the first with the Ludwig Medal for Art and Science and also granted her a writer's pension in the last years of her life, which were marked by serious illnesses. She died in 1886.
tomb
The tomb of Isabella Braun located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 13 - number 12 - number 42) location .
Act
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Isabella Braun was one of the most famous young women writers in Germany. It was thanks to her that young people's literature gained importance in public. Isabella Braun's works turned the secondary branch of literature into a useful means of introducing children and young people to education. The contemporary idea that young people don't care what they read was also contradicted by works by Isabella Braun, which in the late 19th century increasingly met with general interest.
Her magazine Jugendblätter brought together respected writers of her time. After Scheitlin's death, whose publishing house it was published by, it passed into the ownership of the Braun & Schneider publishing house in Munich in 1867, and after Isabella Braun's death it was continued by her niece Isabella Hummel. From 1935 to 1948 there were no issues of the magazine, which was finally discontinued in 1951.
Works (selection)
- Pictures from nature (1849)
- Pictures from German History (1851)
- Little Stories (1851)
- Life Pictures (1856)
- In the green forest (1856, 1874 with illustration by Ferdinand Rothbart ; from 1889 with illustration by Albert Richter )
- True Stories (1858)
- Name booklet (1861)
- Much (1867)
- From my youth (1871)
- Good evening (1879)
- Girl's Favorite Book (1879)
- Village stories (1882)
Honors
- 1868: Award of the Golden Medal for the promotion of art and science by Duke Max in Bavaria
- 1879: Awarded the Ludwig Medal for Art and Science by King Ludwig II.
- 1886: A monument is erected in the Englischer Garten in Neuburg by the Beautification Association
- 1976: Baptism of the old people's and nursing home in Jettingen under the name "Isabella-Braun-Heim"
- "Isabella-Braun-Strasse" in Jettingen
- "Isabella-Braun-Weg" in Munich
- 1986: Opening of a commemorative exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death by the Bavarian Minister of Education, Dr. Hans Maier in Jettingen
literature
- Alfred Baader: Isabella Braun. In: Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz, images of life from Bavarian Swabia. Volume 5. Munich 1956.
- Hyacinth Holland: Braun, Isabella . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 194-196.
- Berger Manfred : Isabella Braun. In: Children's and Youth Literature. Ein Lexikon, Meitingen 1998, 5th Erg.-Lfg., Pp. 1-15
- Hyacinth Holland : "Friendship to Pocci and Isabella Braun" in: Alfred Dreyer (Hrsg.): Memories of a 90 year old. Altmüncheners (Professor Dr. H. Holland), Munich 1921.
- Elisabeth Heimpel: Braun, Isabella. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 553 ( digitized version ).
- Renate Miehle: The brown Bill. From the life of the youth writer Isabella Braun from Jettingen. With a catalog raisonné by Maria Schneider. Jettingen-Scheppach 1986.
Web links
- Literature by and about Isabella Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Isabella Braun in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Project The secret of the desk with biography, selection of works and secondary literature [1]
- Isabella Braun in the literature portal Bavaria
- NEWW Women Writers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braun, Isabella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author of children's books |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jettingen-Scheppach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1886 |
| Place of death | Munich |