Käthe Becker

This article deals with the author, who was born in 1849. For the author of the same name, born in 1878, see Käthe Sturmfels . Käthe van Beeker was also incorrectly named as Käthe Becker .

Käthe Becker , actually Katharina Becker, (born December 27, 1849 in Lambsheim , † after 1913) was a German writer .

Life

Becker was born as the daughter of the landowner Jakob August Becker (* 1820) in Lambsheim. She spent her childhood here and attended elementary school in Lambsheim. She was then taught in a girls 'boarding school in Swabia for two years before she returned to her parents' house. In Lambsheim she married the doctor Karl Becker in 1873. Both moved to Frankenthal in the Palatinate .

Becker mainly wrote lyrical works. In addition, she wrote aphorisms for the salon calendar of the literary-artistic establishment (formerly Obpacher brothers) in Munich .

Works

• Beate. A tale in a bound speech. Gottschick-Witter, Neustadt / Haardt 1892. 2nd edition 1896.
• Elsbeth. Narrative. Gottschick-Witter, Neustadt / Haardt 1896.

literature

• Becker, Kathe . 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. 162.
• Becker, Kathe . 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. 19.
• Becker, Mrs. Käthe . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 46 ( digitized version ).