Josephine Gertrud Bentlage

Josephine Gertrud Bentlage , b. Schmitz, incorrectly also C. Bentlage , (born June 11, 1849 in Neuss , † after 1913) was a German writer . She wrote under the pseudonyms Walter West and Karl von Lenhard .

Life

She was born as the daughter of the businessman and city councilor Maximilian Heinrich Schmitz in Neuss am Rhein . She first attended the secondary school for the sisters of the poor child Jesus and later the Franciscan monastery in Nonnenwerth near Rolandswerth . She trained as a teacher, but worked as a saleswoman. In 1875 she married the writer Carl Theodor Bentlage in Neuss , who died in 1878.

Shortly before Bentlage's death, she began to work as a writer. Her first work, the drama Voltaire's youthful love , appeared in 1875. She worked for the Aachener Zeitung , the Berlin Germania and the Kölnische Volkszeitung . She was still living in Neuss around 1913.

Works

Prince Bismarck as a matchmaker or How to curirt the Bismarckerei. Dramatic joke in 3 sections. Gottschick-Witter, Neustadt 1871.
Voltaires̕ childhood sweetheart. Original drama in 5 acts by Walter West. Improved output. With a recommendation by Levin Schücking . Brunn, Münster 1875.
By your own strength! Novel from Dutch society. Walter West retells freely to the Dutch by HJ Schimmel. 3 volumes. Costenoble, Jena 1876.
The devil knight. Novella of cultural history. Bachem, Cologne 1886.
Master Müller and his journeyman. An old story. Bachem, Cologne 1888.

Translations

The learned republic. Posse in three acts. Translation by Charles de Saint-Évremond : La Comédie des académistes. Reclam, Leipzig 1870.
What the young girls dream of. Love game in two acts. By Alfred de Musset . Reclam, Leipzig 1875.

literature

Bentlage, C. In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 186.
Bentlage, Josephine Gertrud . 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. 21.
Bentlage, Dr. C., widow . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 52 f. ( Digitized version ).
Lenhard, Karl v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 491 ( digitized version ).
West, Walter . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 427 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ The heading “Dr. C. Bentlage ”in Patakys Lexicon, for example, is explained by the usual address at the time as“ the wife / widow of Dr. Carl Bentlage ”.

personal data
SURNAME	Bentlage, Josephine Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	West, Walter (pseudonym); Lenhard, Karl von (pseudonym); Schmitz, Josephine Gertrud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuss
DATE OF DEATH	after 1913

[1] The heading “Dr. C. Bentlage ”in Patakys Lexicon, for example, is explained by the usual address at the time as“ the wife / widow of Dr. Carl Bentlage ”.