Maria Lenzen

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Maria Lenzen (born December 18, 1814 in Dorsten as Maria de Sebregondi , † February 11, 1882 in Anholt ) was a German writer .

Life

Lenzen's birth name was Sebregondi and she was the daughter of a doctor in Dorsten. After attending the Ursuline School in Dorsten, she married the lawyer Gustav Lenzen on January 17, 1834 and lived with him in Elberfeld . After the death of her husband ten months later, she returned to her parents' house in Dorsten and became a writer. In 1848 she married again and lived with her husband Ignaz ten Brink in Anholt , where she interrupted her literary work for representative tasks as well as the birth and upbringing of her son Franz, but with the permission of the Pope adopted the maiden name di Sebregondi .

She did not write again until ten Brink's death in 1875. She had close contacts with the Princely Salm-Salmschen Hof at Anholt Castle . In literary terms, she turned to local topics, with the nobility usually playing a special role. She has become known to a wider audience in particular through her short stories.

Lenzen died in Anholt in 1882 and was buried in the Anholt cemetery.

Novels and short stories

  • The victory of faith. A story from the 2nd century, 1840.
  • Nekodas or the destruction of Jerusalem. A short story, 1841.
  • Angela, the good daughter. Tale for the Mature Youth, 1842.
  • Marcel, the good son, 1861.
  • Melete, or the victory of faith. A story from the 2nd century. 1842.
  • The beggars in Cologne. A novel. 3 vols. Leipzig: Kollmann 1843. 752S.
  • Glandorf. A novel. 3 vol., 1844.
  • Ciullo d'Alcamo. A historical novel. 3 vol. 1845.
  • Magnus Krafft. A novel. 3 vols. Leipzig: Kollmann 1847. 900 p.
  • The first year. A Christmas present for young mothers. 1872. 71S.
  • The process. A novella, 1871
  • From home. Collected Novellas, 1871.
  • Between Ems and Wupper, 1872.
  • The young lady from the Sassenreich. A history of the Lower Rhine, 1876.
  • Flowers of the heather. Three stories, around 1880.
  • Three stories. Fritz Elmer's foster son. What must be must be. Caroline, around 1880.
  • On lonely ways. Novella, 1872.
  • Secret guilt. Novella, 1879.
  • Sunehild. A historical novella, 1879.
  • A heather blossom. Novella, 1880f.
  • Under summer foliage and winter snow. Collected Novellas, 1881.
  • Half a century ago. Collected Novellas , 1881.
  • The buried shoes. Novella, undated
  • Gloomy morning, golden day, 1885.
  • Rau von Nettelhorst [Roman], 1886.
  • Flowers of the Haide. Three short stories, 1886.
  • Absent. Novella, 1889.
  • Pressing shackles. Roman, 1894.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer:  Sebregondi, Maria di . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 509 f.
  • Lenzen, Maria: Selected poems. With a biography of Joseph Wiedenhöfer. Dorsten 1908, 142 pp. [Also contains a representation of her poetic work with an overview of her works]

Web links

Wikisource: Maria Lenzen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtarchiv Wuppertal (ed.): Marriage register of the city of Elberfeld No. 13/1834 . City of Elberfeld, Wuppertal 1834.
  2. ^ Maria Lenzen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
personal data
SURNAME Lenzen, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sebregondi, Maria de (maiden name); Ten Brink, Maria (later name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1882
Place of death Anholt