Louise Zeller

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Louise Zeller , née Pichler (born January 16, 1823 in Wangen bei Göppingen ( Württemberg ), † November 20, 1889 ) was a German author of historical novels .

Live and act

Louise Pichler, born as the daughter of a pastor on January 16, 1823, published novels and short stories under her maiden name until the end of the 1850s. After her marriage, the earlier works were also published under her now better-known name, Louise Zeller. Her works enjoyed a surprising distribution beyond the German-speaking area. It was translated into Dutch by Adrianus Johannes Hubertus van der Sloot , and it was translated into Dutch by a Swiss religious association in Lausanne with its novella Le fils d'adoption. Episode le la guerre de trente ans, (Toulouse 1857) even into French .

Pichler, who came from a poorer background, was able to support her family financially with her works. For a long time she lived in Tübingen , where she was a neighbor of Ottilie Wildermuth . After their marriage, she limited herself - with the exception of the publication of a few new works - to running her husband's household. Regardless of this, The Last Counts of Achalm appeared posthumously eleven years after their death in 1889 .

According to Hartmut Eggert , one of their characteristics was, in contrast to the common historical novel of the time, not only concentrating on one main hero, but also drafting a not insignificant subplot. By the end of the 1850s at the latest - as in the majority of the genre of that time - an unmistakable patriotic tone had come to the fore in their books. All of her novels and stories are set against the backdrop of her home town of Württemberg and in the vicinity of the Hohenstaufen family , whereby she preferred the Middle Ages in the first half of her work and the early modern period in the second half .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Geils, Peter and Gorzny, Willi (Hrsg.): Complete directory of German-language literature (GV). 1700-1910, Saur: Munich a. a. 1979.
  • Kosch, Wilhelm: German Literature Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical handbook, 2nd edition, Francke: Bern 1949
  • Luther, Arthur and Friesenhahn, Heinz: Land and people in German narration. A bibliographical literary dictionary , Hiersemann: Stuttgart 1954.
  • Luther, Arthur: German history in a German story. A literary lexicon, 2nd edition. Hiersemann: Leipzig 1943

Web links

Wikisource: Louise Zeller  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.dbnl.org
  2. ^ Feuille religieuse du canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Impr. Genton, 1857, p. 432
  3. ↑ cf. Adelheid Wildermuth: From old Tübingen. Memories, in: From Swabian plaice. Calendar for Swabian Literature and Art (1920), p. 49–63, here: p. 50 f.
  4. ↑ Hartmut Eggert: Studies on the history of the impact of the German historical novel 1850-1875. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-465-00872-3 , p. 121.
  5. ↑ Günther Hirschmann: Kulturkampf in the historical novel of the Gründerzeit 1859-1878 , 2nd edition Fink: Munich 1978, p. 221 u. 235, ISBN 3-7705-1573-0
personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichler, Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of historical novels
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangen (near Göppingen)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1889