Maria Goswina von Berlepsch

Maria Goswina von Berlepsch

Maria Goswina von Berlepsch (born September 25, 1845 in Erfurt , † April 10, 1916 in Vienna ) was a Swiss-Austrian writer and employee of several magazines.

origin

Her parents were the liberal bookseller and writer Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch (* March 17, 1813, † May 14, 1883) and his wife Teresia Antonia Mayr . Her brother Hans Eduard (1849–1921) became a painter.

Life, work and awards

Berlepsch spent her childhood and youth first in St. Gallen , then in Zurich . After the death of her father in 1883, in whose publications she was often involved, von Berlepsch went to Vienna with her mother and began to publish poems, novellas and stories as well as publications in, among others, Neues Frauenleben and Der Bund .

In her novels and short stories that are close to reality, she described “authentic, liberal types of the Swiss people in contrast to stunted, rigid, old-fashioned or emancipated, modern figures”. Gottfried Keller is considered her poetic model .

In 1905 von Berlepsch was granted honorary citizenship by the city of Zurich “for her poetic representations”.

Publications

• Autobiography In: Freedom and Work: a book of poets . Zurich 1910, p. 78.
• When it gets dark ... fairy tales and stories. Vienna, without a year
• Hairiyye Ben Aiad: The Turkish woman, her social life and the harem. Lecture. With a preface by Goswina von Berlepsch. Max Werthner, Vienna 1904.
• Friederike Goßmann presumably Countess Prokesch von Osten. A picture of life. Carl Gerold's son, Vienna 1908.
• Rosa von Gerold: Memories. Edited by Goswina von Berlepsch. Karl Gerold's son, Vienna 1908.
• August Corrodi: A chapter from my childhood. Ziegler, Winterthur 1913.
• Maria Goswina von Berlepsch, Rudolf Hunziker: About August Corrodi. With 5 previously unpublished letters from Eichendorff. Winterthur 1913.
• Novellas:
  • Single people . Leipzig, 1886
  • Man and woman . Stuttgart, 1897
  • Hill tribe . no year
  • Home . no year
  • A May day, in: Over land and sea, Stuttgart
• Novel:
  • Thalia in the summer . Leipzig, 1893
• Stories:
  • Fortunat's novel undated
  • Mother . Bielefeld. 1895
• Drama:
  • The night watchman of Schlurn (with Antonie Baumberg , Vienna 1901)
• Single article in:
  • New woman life
  • The Bund

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of women in two volumes. Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.
2. ↑ Berlepsch, Maria Goswina from . In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 199.

literature

• Obituary in Der Bund , 11th vol., No. 5, 1916, pp. 7–8.
• Ludwig Eisenberg, Richard Groner: The spiritual Vienna: artist and writer lexicon . Vienna 1889–1893.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 .
• Hans Giebisch, L. Pichler, Kurt Vancsa: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon . Vienna 1948.
• Hermann Clemens Kosel: German-Austrian artists and writers lexicon . Society for the graphic industry, Vienna 1902.
• Lexicon of women in two volumes Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.
• Berlepsch Maria Goswina. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 75.
• Maya Widmer: Berlepsch, Maria Goswina von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Berlepsch, Miss M. Goswina von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 58 ( digitized version ).
• Berlepsch, Goswina v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 483 ( digitized version ). - Addendum

Web links

• Goswina von Berlepsch in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library