Katharina Basler

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Katharina Basler (born May 18, 1777 (baptism date) in Mauchen , today a part of Stühlingen; † September 11, 1849 there ) was a German baker , innkeeper and writer . As a folk poet, she was an exception in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

The Mauchen suburb of Stühlingen

Katharina Preiser was born on May 18, 1777 as the daughter of the farmer Johann Michael Preiser and his wife as one of eleven children in the then Fürstenberg village of Mauchen, which at that time had about 550 inhabitants. She only received seasonal lessons until the age of twelve in the winter school run by the village shoemaker Hertenstein and learned to write against her mother's wishes. In October 1796, Mauchen was badly affected in the First Coalition War on the retreat of the Rhine and Moselle armies. Her parents married her in 1800 to the widowed innkeeper and baker Johannes Basler, 23 years her senior. Friends and foes alike passed through until the transition from Mauchens to Baden in 1806. After her husband's death in 1808, Katharina Basler and a maid had to take over the bakery and the associated dining room with great difficulty. She also had seven children to look after at the time. As early as 1811 she was able to acquire the neighboring house and add a dance floor to the economy . In 1813 she married the widowed village bailiff Franz Anton Rebmann, who also brought seven children into the marriage. Rebmann had previously summoned Katharina Basler to his office a total of 38 times due to disputes with competing innkeepers. Three more children were added. The second husband died in 1829.

Katharina Basler has written longer poems and lyrics since she was a child. She took events from her environment and contemporary history as the topic. Your earliest texts come from the French period and the famine of 1816/17. In addition to family events, she also processed robbery murders committed in the Black Forest back then to cash . Her late poems deal with the emigration to America and with the Baden Revolution of 1848/49. On September 11, 1849, Katharina Basler died as a regional celebrity in Mauchen, which she probably never left. Katharina Basler's songs and poems remained popular in the region until the end of the century.

Poems

Katharinas Basler's texts were distributed by hand. There are no known prints during the author's lifetime. Her biographer Josef Bader received 44 longer poems from her son's hands, extracts of which he published in his two biographies. Bader, who came from the region and who had known one of the victims from Moritaten, the student Mühlbach, personally, thought Katharina's poetry was difficult to eat for the educated, but believed he could see the best between the lines. Two further poems were printed in the diary sheets by Heinrich Hansjakob in 1902.

Printed poems

  • Bader 1862: Say, where are you going; Dialogue between an emigrant and a neighbor; Whom shall I complain to on earth?
  • Bader 1877: Also for a thousand God's sake
  • Hansjakob 1901: Open up, distressed soul; I have to give myself into it; Ronge , religious rebel

literature

  • Josef Bader: A Durlach court poet and a Black Forest village poet . In: Badenia or the Baden region and people. Second edition. Heidelberg 1862. pp. 70-96.
  • Josef Bader: The baker's wife Basler von Mauchen. A village poet from the beginning of our century . In: Bader: German women pictures from different centuries, Herder, 1877, pp. 230-256. on-line
  • Heinrich Hansjakob: Deserted ways. Diary sheets, Stuttgart, Bonz Verlag, 1901, pp. 56–67. on-line
  • Hanns Baum: The Beckin from Mauchen. The story of a brave bather . In: Die Pyramid 21 Nr. 14, Karlsruhe, 1932,
  • Wilhelm Engelbert Oeftering: History of literature in Baden , Karlsruhe, 1937, volume 2, pp. 149-150.
  • Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ein Lexikon , Stuttgart, 1982, p. 16.
  • Karl Goedeke, Herbert Jacob: Eighth book: From peace in 1815 to the French revolution in 1830 . In: Poetry of General Education. Department IX, Berlin, Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2011, p. 498.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Goedeke, Herbert Jacob: Eighth book: From peace in 1815 to the French revolution in 1830. In: Seal of general education. Department IX, Berlin, Akademie Verlag GmbH, 2011, p. 498.
  2. ^ Heinrich Hansjakob: Abandoned ways. Diary sheets, Stuttgart, Bonz Verlag, 1901, p. 65.
personal data
SURNAME Basler, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebmann, Katharina; Prize winner Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Mauchen (Stühlingen)
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1849
Place of death Mauchen (Stühlingen)