Margarethe von Bülow

Margarethe von Bülow (born February 23, 1860 in Berlin , † January 2, 1884 in Rummelsburg near Berlin) was a German writer .

Life

Margarethe came from the old Prussian von Bülow family . Her father, Hugo von Bülow (May 13, 1821– January 26, 1869) was the Prussian consul in Smyrna ( Ottoman Empire ). The family lived there with him until 1865, after which his mother, née Clothilde von Münchhausen (December 5, 1832-27 March 1891), moved to the family manor in Ingersleben near Neudietendorf in Thuringia , which she had trusted from childhood . Consul von Bülow came to visit there in 1867, but returned to Smyrna, where he soon fell ill. The young daughter Margarethe visited him there and from 1868 to 1870 went to the Kaiserswerther deaconess school in Smyrna. After her father's death, she returned to Ingersleben, where she attended the girls' institution of the Moravian Brethren in Neudietendorf from 1870 to 1874 .

This was followed in 1876 by training at a girls' school in Cheltenham in England, from which Margarethe returned to Ingersleben in 1877. Her literary activity began in Berlin in 1881, which particularly reflects impressions from her youth in the Thuringian cultural landscape around Ingersleben and the neighboring Neudietendorf. Only a few years later, in 1884, Margarethe von Bülow had a fatal accident while trying to rescue a boy who had broken into the ice of the Rummelsburger See near Berlin. All of her works were published posthumously .

In Berlin she belonged to the circle of friends around Heinrich Seidel , Johannes Trojan and Diederich Hahn . Margarethe had a particularly close relationship all her life with her sister Frieda von Bülow , who became a well-known writer after Margaret's death: They were "two flowers on a branch".

The name " von-Bülow-Gymnasium " in Neudietendorf 1997 goes back to the work of the two sisters Margarethe and Frieda von Bülow. In the local museum Ingersleben there is a space dedicated to them.

Works

• The lucky watch from Wölfis
• Jonas Briccius (1886), 2nd edition (?) With an introduction by Adolf Bartels
• From the chronicle of those von Riffelshausen (1887), 2nd edition 1919 with an introduction by Adolf Bartels
• New novellas (1890)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Albert Herzog: Your happy eyes. A Karlsruhe journalist tells from his life Kleine Karlsruher Bibliothek, Karlsruhe (2008), p. 53

literature

• Horst Benneckenstein: Two flowers on a branch. In: Two flowers on a branch. Contributions to the life and work of the writers Frieda and Margarethe von Bülow . Published by Heimatmuseum Ingersleben, 2000.
• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Bülow, Margarethe von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 361 f.