Margarete Beutler
Margarete Beutler (born January 13, 1876 in Gollnow , Pomerania Province ; † June 3, 1949 in Gammertingen on the Swabian Alb ) was a German poet , writer and translator .
Life
Margarete Beutler's father, a former captain, was the mayor of Gollnow. Margarete Beutler moved to Berlin with her parents ; there she did the teacher examination. In Simplicissimus she published her first poems and prose pieces in 1897, and in 1902 her first volume of poetry appeared. In 1903 she moved to Munich, where she worked as an editor for the magazine Jugend . After the birth of her son Hans Florian , she lived in Munich with her husband, Friedrich Freksa (pseudonym, civil: Kurt Friedrich-Freksa), a novelist and crime writer.
After her divorce, she lived a secluded life. Under the rule of the National Socialists she decided against joining the Reich Chamber of Literature and refrained from further publications. She died near Tübingen in a nursing home.
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Beutler worked as a poet, playwright and translator from French. In the writings on the “ Café megalomania ” and the “ Romanisches Café ”, where she liked to socialize and was well known, it is mentioned that she was “lost” in 1925. She was u. a. friends with the authors Christian Morgenstern , Frank Wedekind , Michael Georg Conrad and Georg Hirth . Margarete Beutler wrote some poems in the Berlin dialect that still appear in anthologies from time to time. She counted herself among the so-called Bohème (see her book Farewell, Bohème! Ein Gedichtbuch, 1911). Poems from her first volume of poetry (1902) have also been included in the collection of poems Lieder aus dem Rinnstein by Hans Ostwald (publisher).
- Poems (1902)
- New Poems (1908)
- Goodbye bohemian! A book of poems (1911)
- The song of death (verse drama, 1913)
- (Ed.) JJC Grimmelshausen, Trutz-Simplex or detailed and strange biography of the arch-cheater Landstörzerin Courage (1921)
Incorrect assignments
The statement that Beutler also wrote under the pseudonyms "Margit Friedrich" and "Margarete Friedrich-Freksa" is incorrect. Margarete Friedrich (= Margit Friedrich) was eight years younger than Margarete Beutler and a gynecologist from Breslau who was expelled in 1946. She settled in Passau , where she died in 1976.
swell
- Songs from the gutter 1903/1904/1906 ff.
- Ernst Pauly (publisher, owner of Café des Westens ): 20 years of Café des Westens - memories from Kurfürstendamm, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1913/14 (reprint: Postscript, Hanover 1988, ISBN 3-922382-45-2 )
- Killy literary dictionary
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945 . dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 32
- ↑ Doctors in the Empire: Margarete Wilhelmine Friedrich, b. Friedrich
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SURNAME | Beutler, Margarete |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gollnow , Pomerania Province |
DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1949 |
Place of death | Gammertingen on the Swabian Alb |