Johanna Lankau

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Johanna Marie Lankau (born December 14, 1866 in Dresden ; † November 9, 1921 there ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Johanna Iram .

Life

Lankau was born in Dresden in 1866. She lost her father at the age of four. From 1884 to 1888 Lankau attended the royal seminary in Dresden and trained as a teacher. Until 1892 she worked as a tutor of a noble family and took them on trips to Tyrol , Italy and large parts of Germany. After her mother's death, she finally settled in Dresden around 1894, where she worked as a writer and teacher and died in 1921 after a serious illness.

Lankau was fluent in English, French, Italian and Danish and worked as a translator of works by Jerome K. Jerome . From 1894 she wrote for various newspapers, including the Illustrierte Frauenzeitung , the Deutsche Frauenzeitung , Lina Morgenstern's Deutsche Hausfrauen-Zeitung and the Fliegende Blätter , which appeared in Munich. For many years she was an employee of the Dresdner Anzeiger .

Works

  • Heart seven. (Seven stories: basil; a rose !; the stable child; the confessional sheet; a doll's story ; his first pain; poor Gerlach. ) 1897.
  • John Ingerfield et al. other stories by Jerome K (lapka) Jerome. Translated by Johanna Marie Lankau. Gesenius, Halle 1902.
  • Pleasures and sorrows of the fried fish season. Stories. (With Margarete Relbin ) Bagel, Mühlheim 1904.
  • Eva auf Reisen and other short stories for young girls. (Associate) Bagel, Mühlheim 1904.
  • Little Pan. Novel. 1905.
  • Rübezahl's godchild. Christmas fairy tale games. Holze & Pahl, Dresden 1908.
  • Dresden walks. With 399 illustrations after photographs. Holze & Pahl, Dresden 1912.
  • Heart, you choose. Poems. 1912.
  • God's dear room. In: Der Volksschullehrer 7, 1913, pp. 625ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Poems. Saxon local poets association, Dresden 1917.
  • Peter Muchel. Story of a youth. Laube, Dresden 1921. ( digitized version )

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 4. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 188.
  • 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. 178.
  • Volker Klimpel: Famous Dresdeners . Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-910184-85-5 , p. 100.
  • Lankau, Miss Johanna Marie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 478 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lankau, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lankau, Johanna Marie; Iram, Johanna (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1921
Place of death Dresden