Katharina Zitelmann

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Katharina Zitelmann (born December 26, 1844 in Stettin , † February 4, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym K. Rinhart .

Life

Katharina Zitelmann comes from a family of lawyers from Szczecin that has produced several writers. Her father Otto Konrad Zitelmann (1814–1889) was a secret councilor, but also active as a writer. Her younger brother Ernst Zitelmann (1852–1923) became a professor in Bonn, but also published poems. Her cousin Ernst Otto Zitelmann (1854–1897), known by his author's name Konrad Telmann , lived in Rome from 1891, where he devoted himself entirely to writing.

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Katharina Zitelmann attended the secondary school for girls in her hometown of Szczecin from 1855 to 1860 . She remained unmarried and ran the household for her father until his death in 1889. During this time she published her first works from Stettin, in 1873 a novella in the entertainment paper Über Land und Meer and in 1884 her collection of novels What will she do .

After the death of her father, she left Szczecin and undertook long-distance trips to Egypt , India , China , Japan and America , whose impressions she processed in her work. From 1895 she lived in Berlin , but continued to travel long distances until 1908. From 1908 to 1918 she was chairwoman of the German Association of Women Writers . In terms of social reform, she was a member of the board of the Bund Deutscher Bodenreformer from 1908 until her death. She was also a member of the Pomeranian League founded in 1914 to promote local art and art .

Works (selection)

  • What will she do. 1884.
  • An adopted child. The story of a Japanese. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1916.
  • When the world was still open. Studies and sketches from the countries of the East. Book Friends Association, Berlin 1916.
  • The Swedish Countess and other short stories. Reclam's Universal Library , No. 6049. Reclam, Leipzig 1919.

literature

  • Renate van Kampen : The Woltersdorf lock. A memory of the Berlin writer Katharina Zitelmann. In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives. Born in 2010. Berlin 2010, pp. 109–119.
  • Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pomeranian Central Association, Hamburg 1969, p. 365.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 499-500.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Land reform: Deutsche Volksstimme , 19th year 1908, p. 319; 36th year 1925, col. 450; 37th year 1926, Col. 57–58 (obituary) .
personal data
SURNAME Zitelmann, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rinhart, K. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1926
Place of death Berlin