Margarete Kurlbaum-Siebert

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Margarete Kurlbaum-Siebert (born April 6, 1874 in Berlin ; † June 10, 1938 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer with a doctorate in art history.

Life

Anna Margarete Siebert was born in Berlin in 1874 as the daughter of Max and Anna Siebert. In 1884 she moved from a Berlin school to the daughter school of the Silesian city ​​of Landeshut and was trained as an educator at the Queen Luise Foundation from 1893 , where she passed the exam in 1896. From 1897 to 1900 she attended the Luisengymnasium Berlin , where in 1900 she was one of the first women to obtain her Abitur. Among other things, she had attended Helene Lange's high school courses . She then studied art history , archeology and German at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1906 on Dutch portraits of the Virgin Mary from the Renaissance period . Siebert became a teacher in 1908 at a girls' high school in Dresden .

In 1919 Margarete Siebert married the renowned lawyer at the Reichsgericht Alfred Kurlbaum, whose first wife had died a year earlier.

After the National Socialist seizure of power Margarete Kurlbaum-Siebert participated together with u. a. Sophie Rogge-Börner and Lenore Ripke-Kühn on an anthology memorandum of völkischer women with the title German women to Adolf Hitler .

She was elected to the board of directors in May 1933 as part of the National Socialist conformity of the " Protection Association of German Writers ". In 1933 she was editor of the magazine Der Bücherwurm and from 1936 to 1938 she edited the literary journal Das deutsche Wort together with Hans Bott .

Kurlbaum-Siebert died in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1938 .

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Kurlbaul-Siebert published epic poetry and mainly historical novels . She made better known her novel about Maria Stuart from 1927, which appeared two years later in English. The literary historian Hans Henning highlighted her book The Real Power of 1935 about the Napoleonic period, which he called an “excellent novel”.

Publications

  • Marie , Roman, 1905
  • Depiction of the Madonna in early Dutch art from Jan van Eyck to the Mannerists , dissertation, 1906
  • All sorts of love , three stories, 1907
  • Rahel Hake , Roman, 1908
  • From the life of the young Martin Wigelandt , novella, 1909
  • Mary Stuart in Scotland , novel, 1911
  • Karllutz, Raugraf zu Pfalz , Roman, 1913
  • Towers from afar , novel, 1918
  • Fight and Love of Young Maria Stuart , novel, 1927. Translated into English as Mary, queen of Scots by Mary Agnes Hamilton published in 1929.
  • Revolt for God , novel, 1933
  • The real power , novel, 1935
  • The Judge , Roman, 1937

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stephen Games: Pevsner . The early life. Germany and art . Continuum, London et al. 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-4386-0 . P. 107.
  2. ↑ Felix Wiedemann: Racial Mother and Rebel : Witch Images in Romanticism, Völkischer Movement, Neo-Paganism and Feminism . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2007, ISBN 3-8260-3679-4 , ISBN 978-3-8260-3679-8 . P. 161.
  3. ↑ Archive for the History of the Book Industry , Volume 21, Bertold Hack, Reinhard Wittmann , Marietta Kleiss, 1980, ISBN 3-598-24818-0 . Page 617.
  4. ^ Thomas Dietzel; Hans-Otto Hügel : German literary magazines: 1880 - 1945; a repertory . Part 1.
  5. ^ Hans Henning: The German literature. The development and main works of German literature . 4th ed., 1940. p. 450.
personal data
SURNAME Kurlbaum-Siebert, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and PhD art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1938
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau