Maria Albrecht

Maria Albrecht , b. Maria Wenzel , (born February 14, 1850 in Eggebrechtsmühle , Schlochau district , † July 16, 1923 in Görlitz ) was a German writer . She published under the pseudonym Maria Hellmuth .

Life

Albrecht was born as one of six children to a landowner in West Prussia . She lost her father at the age of five, after which she moved with her mother and siblings to a larger town in West Prussia. The wish to become a teacher was not fulfilled because Albrecht married a businessman when he was young. She went to Berlin with him, their daughter died at the age of 13. In 1892 Albrecht turned to writing, and from 1899 until her death she lived in Görlitz.

Works (selection)

Novels

• Poor girl. Novel . Hillger Verlag, Leipzig 1905.
• Was it pity? Novel . Hillger Verlag, Leipzig 1912.
• In the twelfth hour. Novel . Klambt-Verlag, Speyer 1913 (Modern Ten Pfennig Library; Vol. 109).

stories

• Your best idea. Deserted. Novellas . Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1907.
• Heart needle. Narration . From Maria Hellmuth. Weber, Heilbronn 1911.
• A fateful legacy. Narration . 1911.
• Safe. Novelle , Verlag Weber, Heilbronn 1915 (Weber's modern library; vol. 229).
• The hole in the pocket. Narration . Hillger Verlag, Leipzig 1910.

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, Volume 1 . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1975, p. 46f. (Reprint of the Leipzig 1913 edition).
• Elisabeth Friedrichs : The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 3.