Maria Susanne Kübler

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Portrait of Susanne Scherr (Kübler) in the magazine Die Gartenlaube from 1873

Maria Susanne Kübler (born February 27, 1814 in Winterthur ; † February 4, 1873 in Zurich ) was a Swiss folk writer.

Life

Maria Kübler was born as the daughter of a teacher and grew up in what is now Winterthur's old town on Steinberggasse . She learned English, French and Italian in a boarding school in Yverdon-les-Bains . Her brother was the theologian and writer Jakob Kübler .

At the age of 20 she married the businessman Johann Jakob Haggenmacher; the marriage resulted in four children. While Maria was at home with her children, her husband was busy with his business and military career and had to take care of his half-siblings as a guardian. Overwhelmed with this task, he showed himself less and less at home. In the seventh year of marriage, Maria Kübler fell in love with the Winterthur teacher Johannes Scherr . Although he moved to Stuttgart , her marriage to Haggenmacher failed a little later. He was patronized in 1844 because of the poor bookkeeping of his grocery store and because he was inadequately performing his guardianship duties, and the marriage was divorced.

Kübler followed Scherr after the liquidation of her ex-husband's business with two of her children to Germany and married him after two years of separation. The two school-age children stayed with their grandfather. Since Scherr's income was insufficient, Maria also had to provide income. She supported her husband in his work as a translator, wrote articles about housekeeping and education for women's magazines and illustrated children's books. She gave birth to two more children, the first of which died shortly after birth. In 1848, Johannes Scherr, as an exponent of the liberal movement after the failed revolution in Germany, was declared an enemy of the state and announced for arrest. Thanks to personal contacts with a policeman's housekeeper, she was able to warn him in good time and Scherr was able to flee to Zurich . He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for high treason . Maria followed him back to Switzerland in 1849.

Here she was now a refugee in her own country because she had lost her Swiss citizenship by marrying a foreigner. She was only able to secure a residence permit in Zurich for herself and her children after a relative had paid a personal deposit. She began working on her guidebook and later bestseller Das Hauswesen . In it Kübler dealt with all questions about housekeeping that a woman had to know at the time. The book appeared in 1850, was reprinted 17 times and is considered the standard work of the time.

After the book was finished, the family moved back to Winterthur, where her husband opened a private school in the Villa Sonnenberg . Kübler taught English and French at the school. In 1853, at the age of 39, she gave birth to another son, who however died after seven months. The time in Winterthur was her main creative time as a writer. She wrote other guides and cookbooks such as Der Frauenspiegel (1854), the Housewife's Brevier (1854), The Housemother (1857), The Clever Cook (1858) and revised other editions of her main work. The family achieved social advancement through the common success; she received guests such as the poet August Corrodi , the Swiss Federal President Jonas Furrer or the Winterthur company founder Salomon Volkart .

After a good decade in Winterthur, the family moved back to Zurich in 1860, as Scherr had accepted a position as professor at the Zurich Polytechnic . Maria continued to work as a writer in Zurich. She died at the age of 68 after a stroke and was buried in the Zurich-Aussersihl cemetery.

In 2008, the Maria-Kübler-Weg was named after her in the Dättnau district of Winterthur .

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Susanne Kübler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Maria Susanna Kübler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Name and date of birth according to HLS and detailed biography in the 2000 Winterthur Yearbook. Library networks such as Helveticat of the SNB give February 12, 1804 as the date of birth and the first name with Marie.
personal data
SURNAME Kübler, Maria Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kübler, Susanne; Kübler, Maria; Kübler, Marie Susanna; Haggenmacher, Marie Susanne (married name); Scherr, Marie Susanne (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folk writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1873
Place of death Zurich