Klara Bauer

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Klara Bauer, engraving around 1885

Klara Bauer (born June 23, 1836 in Swinoujscie ; † June 29, 1876 in Breslau ) was a novelist known under the pseudonym Karl Detlef .

Life

Klara Bauer was born in Swinoujscie in 1836 as the daughter of a port and shipping director. At the age of two, the family moved to Krotoschin in Poznan, where their father had been transferred as district administrator. When he said goodbye in 1849, the family moved to Posen and Klara Bauer attended school here. After his death, she followed her older sister to Breslau and trained as a teacher. She passed her teacher examination, but then went to Dresden and took piano lessons from Friedrich Wieck . As a pianist she came to the family of the Russian lieutenant general Fjodor von der Lannitz, later lived in St. Petersburg and in Oryol . In Russia, Klara Bauer was a frequent guest in Otto von Bismarck's house , who at the time was living as a Prussian envoy at the Russian court.

However, the Russian climate was detrimental to her health and so she first went back to Dresden in 1866 and worked there as a piano teacher. The encounter with the poet Gustav Kühne finally made her active as a writer. Her first novel Up in the Steppe appeared in 1871 and dealt with life in Russia. In 1872 she traveled to Italy, but returned to Breslau in 1875, suffering from an incurable breast disease, where she died in 1876.

Works

  • Up to the steppe (1868)
  • Insoluble Bond (1869)
  • Guilt and Atonement (2 vols., 1871)
  • Nora (2 vols., 1871)
  • Did it have to be? (2 vols., 1873)
  • Between father and son (2 vols., 1873)
  • On Capri (2 vols., 1874)
  • Novellas (including First Love , Love Exchange , The Lonely Manor ; 1875)
  • Benedikta (Berlin 1876, 3 vol.)
  • The Mysterious Singer (Stuttgart 1876)
  • A document (4 vols., 1876)

Appeared from her estate

  • Russian idylls , short stories (including my neighbors in the country , Russian country life ; 1877)

literature

  • Theodor Pyl:  Detlef, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 81.
  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures . Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, pp. 442-446.
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Reclam, Leipzig 1913, pp. 138f.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Klara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Detlef, Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Swinoujscie
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1876
Place of death Wroclaw