Margarethe Kossak

Margarethe Kossak

Margarethe Kossak (also: Margarete Kossak , nee Margarethe Brasche , pseudonyms : O. Halwig , Rose d'Ivry , Dolly Marriot , S. Roberts , Sylvia , Agnes Zolling ; * August 22, 1855 in Schippenbeil in East Prussia ; † in the 20th century ) was a German writer .

Life

Margarethe Kossak was the daughter of a general practitioner . She grew up in Friedland and was raised by governesses . From 1868 she attended a boarding school for girls in Königsberg . In 1870 she married the doctor O. Kossak, with whom she lived in Friedland. The marriage had two children. After the death of her husband in 1884, Margarethe Kossak lived first in Berlin and later in Jena . She was active in the arts and crafts and produced numerous columnist articles under various pseudonymsArticles for magazines. Kossak made extensive trips, which she u. a. to Finland , the Lofoten , Spitzbergen and Siberia . She stayed in Iceland for two years ; further trips led her u. a. to Greenland , Alaska and the United States . From 1908 she lived in Vienna . - Margarethe Kossak was the recipient of an honorary doctorate in medicine from an American university .

In addition to magazine articles , Margarethe Kossak published novels , short stories and handicraft instructions.

Works

• Your Prince Charming , Berlin [u. a.] 1900
• The black knight. Poor Jossef - poor Czygau. Your Roderich. Under the mask , Berlin [u. a.] 1901
• Innocence , Berlin 1903
• If you hold a cross in front of the devil and other modern things , Berlin 1903
• Crown of Life , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1904
• The last night in the old house , Berlin 1905
• The heiress , Dresden 1906
• The love magic from Glérafoss , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1906
• The fairytale wanderer , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1910
• Works from crepe and tissue paper , Leipzig 1911
• Works from silk scraps , Leipzig 1911
• Two sisters. Noble revenge , Lucerne 1913 (under the name Sylvia)
• Taiga , Neurode [and a.] 1913
• Preparing plants for handicraft work , Leipzig 1919
• The blue graves , Munich 1920
• Who never awoke to the light! , Leipzig 1921
• The revenge is mine! , Dresden 1924

literature

• Kossak, Mrs. M. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, pp. 448-450 ( digitized version).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The 9th edition of the biographical reference work "Who is it?" lists them as still alive.