Margarete Boehme

Margarete Böhme (name during the second marriage: Margarete Schlüter , pseudonym : Ormános Sandor ; * May 8, 1867 as Wilhelmine Margarete Susanna Feddersen in Husum ; † May 23, 1939 in Hamburg-Othmarschen ) was a German writer .

Life

Margarete Böhme grew up in Husum , where she attended a secondary school for girls. Her first story was published by a Hamburg newspaper at the age of 17 ; In the following years she made columnist articles for German and Austrian newspapers. In 1894 she married the newspaper publisher Friedrich Theodor Böhme , with whom she lived in Boppard . The marriage in 1900 divorced . After that Margarete Böhme lived with her daughter as a journalist and freelance writer in Berlin-Friedenau . From 1903 she published entertainment novels , some of which first appeared in newspapers as serial novels . She had her breakthrough in 1905 with the novel Diary of a Lost . In 1911 Böhme married the Berlin bread manufacturer Theodor Schlueter . After his death, she moved to her daughter in Hamburg-Othmarschen , where she lived until her death.

Margarete Böhmes literary work consists of numerous novels and stories . Her greatest success, The Diary of a Lost Woman, portrays the descent of a young woman into prostitution ; Since Böhme referred to herself as the “editor” in the first edition, it was considered an authentic diary for a long time . With 1.2 million copies sold, the Diary of a Lost was one of the greatest sales successes in the German book trade before 1933. It was translated into 14 languages and filmed three times . Afterwards Margarete Böhme published further novels on social topics of the time. The department store novel WAGMUS , published in 1911, is widely regarded as her most successful work

After the National Socialist seizure of power , Margarete Boehme's books were no longer published in Germany and the author was largely forgotten. That since the nineties of the 20th century, especially in the United States is likely, renewed interest in her person and her work significantly influenced be of the posthumous cult of the actress Louise Brooks , the 1929 starred in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's film adaptation of the diary played .

Your novel WAGMUS is an important reference text in Uwe Lindemann's study Das Warenhaus. Modern scene (2015).

Works

In the will-o'-the-wisp , Berlin 1903
Fortunately , Dresden 1903
Off the beaten path , Berlin 1904
Fetish , Berlin 1904
When spring comes , Berlin 1904
The green three , Berlin 1905
Diary of a lost person , Berlin 1905
The gray street , Dresden 1906
The fulfillment of the law , Berlin 1906
Johann ... , Groß-Lichterfelde-Ost 1906
Dida Ibsen's story , Berlin 1907
Apostle Dodenscheit , Berlin 1908
Rheinzauber , Berlin 1909
WAGMUS , Berlin 1911
In a white dress , Dresden 1912
Anna Nissen's dream , Dresden 1913
Christine Immersen , Dresden [a. a.] 1913
The telegram from Meran , Berlin 1913
Sarah von Lindholm , Leipzig 1914
War letters from the Wimmel family , Dresden 1915
Seven stars , Dresden 1915
Loyalty , Berlin 1915
Boys, almost catches! , Reutlingen 1916
Lifesaver Belf , Reutlingen 1918
Heartbreak , Siegmar-Chemnitz 1919
Millions rush , Berlin 1919
Vanvoegelferme , Leipzig 1919
Wind and waves , Reutlingen 1919
The green snake , Berlin 1920
Lukas Weidenstrom , Berlin 1921
Mrs. Ines' Firnenwanderung , Dresden-A. 1922
The golden flood , Dresden-A. 1922
Marianne Wendels ordeal , Dresden-A. 1922
My guilt, my great guilt ... , Dresden 1922
Fools of Luck , Dresden 1923
Roswitha , Dresden 1923
Mrs. Bedford's tears , Berlin 1924
The Maienschneider , Berlin 1925
Margarete Böhme - the successful writer from Husum , Munich [u. a.] 1994
Insights , Husum 2009

Film adaptations

Diary of a Lost One (1912) , (probably) first film adaptation from 1912. Director: Fritz Bernhardt
The Diary of a Lost One (1918) , second film version from 1918. Director: Richard Oswald
Diary of a Lost One (1929) , third film version from 1929. Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

literature

Arno Bammé : The literary estate of the successful Husum writer Margarethe Böhme (1867–1939) , Klagenfurt 1993
Eva Borst: Above all shame , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1993
Heide Soltau: The diary of a lost person, from the estate of a dead person; The world success of a book and its consequences , Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Training, Klagenfurt 1993, DNB 940361337 .
Christiane Schönfeld (Ed.): Commodities of Desire , Rochester, NY [u. a.] 2000
Stephanie Günther: Femininity designs of the Fin de Siècle, Berlin authors: Alice Berend, Margarete Böhme, Clara Viebig , Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03205-6 (also dissertation at the University of Regensburg 2004).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The year of birth 1869, which is often mentioned in reference works, is incorrect, cf. the linked article by Arno Bammé, p. 5

personal data
SURNAME	Böhme, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlueter, Margarete; Sandor, Ormános; Feddersen, Wilhelmine Margarete Susanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Husum
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 1939
Place of death	Hamburg-Othmarschen

[1] The year of birth 1869, which is often mentioned in reference works, is incorrect, cf. the linked article by Arno Bammé, p. 5