Käthe van Beeker

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Käthe van Beeker (born April 1, 1863 near Königsberg ; † July 21, 1917 in Meran -Obermais) was a German writer who was particularly successful as a young adult author .

Life

Käthe van Beeker was born on a country estate near Königsberg in Prussia . She received her upbringing in Königsberg since she was three and later lived unmarried in Wiesbaden , where she became literary from 1897.

She wrote mainly books for girls and was one of the most successful authors of fried fish literature of her time , alongside Brigitte Augusti , Bertha Clément and Henny Koch . Among other things, she wrote travel stories for young girls and girls 'colonial novels , which for the first time dealt with emigration and life abroad in the field of girls' literature. Instead of, for example, the young heroine's typical boarding-house stay in the Backfisch literature, the focus is on the heroine's development in a foreign country. Hedda, the heroine from Hedda's apprenticeship in Southwest , is sent from her impoverished family to her brother in Southwest Africa, where she can develop independently from her mother - her father has already died.

Some of Käthe van Beeker's novels achieved large print runs and were translated into Dutch and Swedish, among other things.

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  • Urban visit. A small town family story. Reclam, Leipzig 1899.
  • The wild bumblebee. A story for young girls. Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1900.
  • Aunt Aurora's heiress (1900)
  • The von Ellernbruck family. Novel. Vobach, Berlin 1901.
  • Comtess deer. A story for young girls. Levy & Müller, Berlin 1901.
  • Miss Schoolmaster and other funny love stories. Hinstorff, Wismar 1902.
  • Guste, Gretel and me. A story for girls. Loewe, Stuttgart 1902.
  • Lucky clover. Four summer stories. Hinstorff, Wismar 1904.
  • Hansi's European trip. A story for girls. Loewe, Stuttgart 1906. ( New edition in large print, Books on demand, 2016 )
  • Grete's engagement. The story of a youth. Vobach, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1907.
  • Hedda's apprenticeship in southwest. Story for girls. Loewe, Stuttgart 1909.
  • Mistress Sascha. A book for young girls. Nister, Nuremberg 1911.
  • Miss Wildcat. Story for young girls. Levy & Müller, Stuttgart 1913.
  • The ring of the Nuramaja. Novel. Wille, Berlin 1919. ( New edition 2018 )
  • The journey to the land of happiness. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1925.
  • The land of happiness. Eden, Berlin, 8th edition 1932.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, p. 164f.
  • Gisela Wilkending (Ed.): Girls' literature from the imperial era. Between female identification and crossing borders . Metzler, Stuttgart 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Beeker, Käthe van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1917
Place of death Meran - Upper Maize