Johanna Hering

Johanna Herring married. Salkowsky (born January 29, 1821 in Memel, † 1884 in southern France ) was a 19th century German writer for young people . She published her works under the pseudonym Olga Eschenbach.

Life

Johanna Hering was born in Memel in 1821 as the daughter of a pharmacist. After her father's financial ruin, she had to train to be a teacher. She started her first job as a tutor when she was fifteen. Her work later brought her to England as a society lady , but from there she returned to Germany after two years . In Königsberg she lived with a friend whose husband she married after the death of her friend in 1857. With this she emigrated to the south of France. Her literary work ended with the marriage.

Act

Johanna Hering (pseudonym: Olga Eschenbach) has written fifteen works in her career as a writer that can be proven to be associated with her name.

The contents of the books she has written are strongly shaped by her own life. Through her work as an educator, she preferred to write youth books for girls, some of which can be classified as " Backfischliteratur ". But her independence as a woman with an education who had become independent of her parents' home is also reflected in her books. Although her novels do not explicitly rebel against the role model of young women prevailing in the 19th century, there are repeated phases in the lives of their protagonists in which they briefly refuse to bow to the rules.

In addition, her stays in different countries flowed into her works, as the author incorporated geographical, cultural-anthropological and historical information in her books, thus giving the genre of girls' literature even more flexibility.

Below you will find information on three of her works, which will be listed again in full in the next section.

The beauty of the soul (1845) (digitized version)

The volume consists of four moral narratives that contain religious motifs. It is a tenant from Ireland who mainly takes advantage of the Catholic farmers through the Protestant nobility. The message from all the tales is the claim that the internal aristocracy has some disadvantages, such as: B. differences in social classes or lack of property, compensated. At the same time, an honored husband is considered a picture of decency for recognition in society.

The settler in the steppe (1853)

The narrative explains the theme of everyday and environmental stories. Displacement, advancement, and love are the basic motivations of this family story. Morality, however, is not the focus of the narrative. The scene of the event is a German city not far from Odessa.

Elisabeth's winter and spring in Rome. Letters from a Young Girl Home (1887)

The travel novel was written by a writer based on her own experience. This letter-diary novel is aimed primarily at girls. The content can be assigned to the introduction to the major memorials and the different cityscapes.

Works

• From life. Story for young girls (1833)
• Pictures from ancient times or: Loyalty above everything (1853)
• Cousin daisies. A Tale for Young Girls (1882)
• The beauty of the soul (1845) (digitized version)

• Story and novella for female youth (1845) (digitized version )
• The settler in the steppe (1853)

• The neighbors or: Conquering yourself is the most beautiful victory (1853)
• Three summer days or: if it pleases God, it will be day (1853)
• Elisabeth's winter and spring in Rome. Letters from a Young Girl Home (1887)

• Recovery hours. Story and novella for female youth (1851)
• Far from home. A Tale for Young Girls (1894)
• Festgabe. Tale for the more mature female youth (1847)
• Gertrud's Tales for Young Girls (1877)
• High and low or: Love is stronger than death (1853)
• My sketchbook for the youth and youth friends (1853)
• Lost and found. A Tale for Young Girls (1884)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Killy literary dictionary - authors and works of the German-speaking cultural area. Retrieved June 30, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Petra Volkmann-Valkysers: Girls' literature of the imperial era. Between female identification and crossing borders . Ed .: Gisela Wilkending. Springer Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-476-05256-8 , pp. 306-307 .
3. ↑ Susanne Barth: Eschenbach, Olga . In: Killy literary dictionary - authors and works of the German-speaking cultural area . tape 3 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2008.
4. ↑ Brunken, Otto, et al. (Ed.): Eschenbach, Olga. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1800 to 1850 (vol. 4). Stuttgart 1998, Sp. 1265-1266.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Brunken, Otto, et al. (Ed.): Eschenbach, Olga. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1850 to 1900 (vol. 5). Stuttgart 2008, Col. 1104-1105.

literature

• Volkmann-Valkysers, Petra: Appendix short biographies of the authors of atypical girls' literature *. In: Girls' literature from the imperial era. Between female identification and crossing borders, ed. Gisela Wilkending. Stuttgart 2003. online , ISBN 978-3-476-05256-8 .
• Brunken, Otto , et al. (Ed.): Eschenbach, Olga. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1850 to 1900 (vol. 5). Stuttgart 2008, column 1104-1005. ISBN 978-3-476-01687-4
• Brunken, Otto , et al. (Ed.): Eschenbach, Olga. In: Handbook for children's and youth literature. From 1800 to 1850 (vol. 4). Stuttgart 1998, columns 1265-1266. ISBN 978-3-476-05576-7
• Pataky, Sophie : Lexicon of German women of the spring vol. 1. AL Berlin, 1898, p. 198. online
• Friedrichs, Elisabeth: SALKOWSKY. In: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries . A lexicon. Stuttgart 1981, p. 262. ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7 .