Luise Westkirch

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Luise Westkirch

Luise Westkirch (born July 8, 1853 in Amsterdam , † July 11, 1941 in Munich ) was a German writer.

Life

She was born to German parents in Amsterdam, where her father, Johann Rudolph Westkirch, ran a large cloth business. In 1856 she returned to Germany with her parents and lived in Schloss Kleinniedesheim , a property of her father in the Bavarian Palatinate . In the novella The Mayor of Immelheim , events in Kleinniedesheim are described. After the early death of their father, the family moved to Mainz in 1861 and later to Wiesbaden . Here Luise Westkirch attended schools, in Wiesbaden she trained as a teacher and passed the teacher examination there. From 1872 on she was a teacher in Hanover and also devoted herself to work as a writer. Her first novel was published in the family magazine Daheim . She worked for the leading entertainment magazines of her time, e.g. B. North and South , the German Review and the Gazebo . As the author of around 50 short stories and novels, she was active as a writer for over 60 years and reached a wide readership. Her work includes women's novels , socially critical works, homeland novels , detective novels and historical-patriotic novels.

She was awarded the honorary prize of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung for her novella The Red Scarf .

Works

  • A family quarrel . Kiepert & von Bolschwing, Freiburg i. Br. 1885
  • Smoke . Six novellas from everyday life. Duncker, Berlin 1888
  • The base of the pyramid and other short stories. Duncker, Berlin 1891
  • He should be your master . Schorer, Berlin 1893
  • Novellas . ( Sunbeam , story. - One from the people , story. - One from the old days . - Scattered sparks . - Because salvation is born to you today .) Schorer, Berlin 1893
  • From the cauldron of time . Woman's guilt and height. Publishing house of the Association of Book Friends, Berlin 1894
  • Nerd . List, Leipzig 1895
  • A modern martyr . Trevendt, Breslau 1896
  • Under the ice and other stories . Reclam, Leipzig 1897
  • A student marriage . 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1898
  • Get off the clod . Novel in two volumes. Lutz, Stuttgart 1899
  • Junker Fred's novel . German publishing company, Stuttgart 1901
  • Urschel's find . Reclam, Leipzig 1901
  • Beyond good and bad . 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1902
  • Stories from the north edge . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1903
  • To a love happiness . Schall, Berlin 1903
  • Loreley . Janke, Berlin 1903
  • The Right to Love and two other short stories. Reclam, Leipzig 1904
  • King hatred . Union, Stuttgart 1904
  • Under Black Forest firs . Union, Stuttgart 1904
  • The big cliff . Novellas. Hillger, Berlin 1906
  • The glacier mill . Reclam, Leipzig 1906
  • Cain's kidnapping . German book workshops, Dresden 1906
  • On the heights of mankind . Reclam, Leipzig 1907
  • The Marquis of Weyermoor . Concordia, Berlin 1908
  • When the masks fall and other stories. Hesse, Leipzig 1909
  • Timm Bredenkamp's luck . Reclam, Leipzig 1909
  • Stories and short stories . 2 vols. Reclam, Leipzig 1909
  • Between evening and morning . Play in one act. Theater Verlag, Berlin 1909
  • Lower Saxon people . Moeser, Leipzig 1909
  • The Mayor of Immelheim and other short stories. Leipzig: Reclam 1911.
  • In Versailles, Germany . Seyfert, Dresden 1911
  • In the Teufelsmoor . Union, Stuttgart 1911
  • The servant of Wörpedamm . Reclam, Leipzig 1912
  • The prosecutor . Union, Stuttgart 1912
  • Actor of life . Grethlein, Leipzig 1912
  • The Franzosenhof . Seyfert, Dresden 1913
  • After the fall of man and other short stories. Reclam, Leipzig 1915
  • Thieves . Novella. Reclam, Leipzig 1916
  • Butterflies at sea . Hillger, Berlin 1916
  • How Ulrich Urban found a treasure . Hillger, Berlin 1917
  • Gretchen's lover . Hillger, Berlin 1917
  • A German barbarian . Reclam, Leipzig 1917
  • Jan in the moor . Uhlmann, Siegmar-Chemnitz 1919
  • The steel bath . Hillger, Berlin 1919
  • The haunted castle . Union, Leipzig 1920
  • In the Joachimsklamm . Narrative. Font Distribution Agency, Berlin 1920
  • The Bovensen fire . Hillger, Berlin 1920, digitized version of the German National Library
  • The courage to live . Rotbarth, Leipzig 1920. Digitized version of the German National Library
  • The light in the swamp . Reclam, Leipzig 1921
  • The Easter Supper in Grosseto . Episode from the life of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick the Second. Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1922
  • The man in the mask . Union, Stuttgart 1923
  • The big blow . Hamel, Berlin 1924. Digitized version of the German National Library
  • Beyond good and bad . 2 volumes. Reclam, Leipzig 1924
  • The Fortuna of Praeneste . Reclam, Leipzig 1926. Digitized version of the German National Library
  • When love speaks ... Janke, Berlin 1926
  • The prodigal son . Reclam, Leipzig 1927
  • Moorbrand . Union, Stuttgart 1928
  • Lambs and vultures . Union, Stuttgart 1929
  • The Kornmuhme . Union, Leipzig 1931
  • The hermit on Westeroog . Union, Stuttgart 1932
  • Helge Nedderkopp's marriage . Union, Stuttgart 1933
  • The blacksmith from Ellermoor . Union, Stuttgart 1934
  • The soldier from Heisterbusch . Union, Stuttgart 1935
  • Judgment day . Union, Stuttgart 1937
  • Heather and birch bush . Union, Stuttgart 1937
  • Love . Union, Stuttgart 1940
  • The mortal enemy . Detective novel. Paetel, Berlin 1940

Web links

Wikisource: Luise Westkirch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 6th edition, Volume 7, Leipzig 1913, p. 414
  2. ^ Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen. P. 654
personal data
SURNAME Westkirch, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1941
Place of death Munich