Maria Johanna Sedelmaier

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Maria Johanna Sedelmaier (born August 19, 1811 in Salzburg ; † March 18, 1853 there ) was a writer and teacher and is considered the most important Austrian poet of the Biedermeier period .

biography

Sedelmaier was born as the daughter of a silver worker and a tobacco shop owner in Salzburg and grew up in poor conditions. She showed an early interest in literature and formed the basis of the books of her brother, who was allowed to visit the gymnasium, self-educated in Latin and Greek from. She dealt with ancient mythology and read Virgil and Horace as well as the German classics by Klopstock and Schiller . After her mother's death, she took over the tobacco shop on today's Universitätsplatz in Salzburg and earned her living from it. Trained as a teacher, she occasionally gave private lessons. It was only very late that the unmarried woman got an adequate job at the St. Andrä girls' school, where she taught as a substitute teacher from 1848 until the end of her life. In 1853 the artist died of a lung disease at the age of 42.

She was particularly interested in the ancient past of her hometown Salzburg. She gained public fame with her lyrical "obituary" for the Roman antiquities from the Bürglstein area that were acquired by King Ludwig of Bavaria and taken abroad . The Bavarian king was so impressed with her poetry that he often visited her in her tobacco shop. She owed her literary rise to the Upper Austrian writer Carl Adam Kaltenbrunner , who published her poems in various yearbooks and newspapers. Sedelmaier's tobacco shop increasingly developed into a literary meeting place for Viennese artists who visited Salzburg, including Franz Grillparzer , Ernst von Feuchtersleben , Pyrker von Felső-Eőr and Nikolaus Lenau , who valued their poems very much. Not infrequently, at these gatherings, the poet praised the city of Salzburg, which she saw as “ Arcadia ”.

Maria Johanna Sedelmaier wrote her poems mainly in classical verse forms and dealt mainly with topics from ancient mythology. The magic of their language, the richness of the images, the emotional sensations and their new understanding of nature soon developed into the characteristic of their works, which, permeated by evening mood, closeness to death and transience, are related in their elegiac mood to the poems of Georg Trakl .

Works

  • Poems . In commission of the Oberer'sche Buchhandlung Oberer'sche Buchhandlung, Salzburg 1831.
  • Poems . In commission of Mayr'sche Buchhandlung Mayr'sche Buchhandlung, Salzburg 1832.
  • St. Maximus and Salzburg's founder St. Rupertus - poetically edited from the story . Duyle, Salzburg 1836.
  • The legend of Lambach - in three songs . Oberer, Salzburg 1843.
  • Letters for the female school youth . J. Oberer Sel. Widow, Salzburg 1848.
  • View of the Mönchsberg am Mönchstein . In: Frederick Baker (ed.): Salzburg . Select Europe. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2004, ISBN 3-85129-449-1 , p. 199.
  • -, Gerhard Plasser (Ed.): Poems . Rara, Volume 1. Salzburg Museum, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-900088-31-6 .

Literature and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
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  5. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Network ,
    catalog list Austrian National Library .
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personal data
SURNAME Sedelmaier, Maria Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1853
Place of death Salzburg