Luise Schenck

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Luise Auguste Henriette Schenck (born June 14, 1839 in Elmshorn , † October 25, 1918 Hamburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Luise Schenck was the daughter of a well-known lawyer from Elmshorn. Like her two brothers and four sisters, she received a gender-specific upbringing that is customary for middle-class children. Friends and relatives of the educated middle class met in her parents' house. Her godfather , August Friedrich Schenck, was a successful painter, with whom she cultivated closer contacts. Together with her uncle, Luise Schenck traveled extensively within Europe and later to South America in the 1850s and 60s . Here she lived with her brother in Montevideo . In the 1870s she worked as a language teacher and educator in Brazil .

After her return to Hamburg, she wrote the book Lose Blätter from Brazil in 1885 , which was kept in the historical context of educated middle-class travel culture. The travel narratives included reports and diary entries, novellas and romantic poems in an unusual combination, some of which were translated. Through the book Schenck made the acquaintance of Gustav Freytag , with whom she became friends. In the following years Schenck wrote other stories, such as the Brazilian Novellas in 1887 . The other stories dealt almost exclusively with their home region and its history.

In the last decades of her life, Schenck lived in different places: after stays in Wiesbaden and Friedrichsrode , she lived in Hamburg and Altona . Schenck took care of her mother and several sisters and for this reason could not write for several years. As the income from writing as a single woman was insufficient, Schenck also worked as a language teacher and translator. Schenck was acquainted with the prominent writers Timm Kröger and Otto Ernst at the time; however, it did not succeed in gaining literary and financial recognition from publishers.

After her death, her nephew Ernst Barlach and her sister Bertha had a tombstone made in the form of an open book. The grave of the writer is in the Diebsteich cemetery in Altona-Nord .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration and location of the pillow stone Luise Schenck at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Schenck, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenck, Luise Auguste Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1918
Place of death Hamburg