Marie Bach

Marie Luise Bach , née Marie Gelpke (born June 26, 1836 in Bern , † August 25, 1904 there ), was a Swiss writer .

Life

Bach grew up on Lake Geneva as the daughter of the Bern professor of theology and church history Ernst Friedrich Gelpke (1807–1871) . She was raised bilingually - French and German - and wrote poetry in her childhood. She married Karl Heinrich Andreas Bach in 1860. The marriage had several children whom Bach had to raise alone after the husband's early death in 1870. In 1871 Bach moved to Basel , where she lived until 1886.

She had already started writing in 1884. A first drama, written under the title Wieland and Julie , premiered under the title Julie Bondeli, the Queen of Bern . In addition to other plays, mostly of a humorous nature, Bach published in various newspapers in Switzerland, among other things, dramatized fairy tales, humoresques , novellas , short stories for young people, poems and translations from English. In 1886 Bach moved back to Bern, where she later founded a private school and died in 1904.

Works (selection)

• Julie Bondeli and Wieland. Drama in 4 acts, with a prelude. Nydegger & Baumgart, Bern 1884. (Second edition 1894 as Wieland and Julie )
• Arsent. Drama in 5 acts by M. Bach-Gelpke. Vogel, Glarus 1893.
• Novellas from artistic circles and harmless stories from the federal city. Vogel, Glarus 1893.
• Lady Kyme. Drama in five acts. Wirz, Grünigen 1895.
• The diplomatic court marshal. (Comedy, around 1898)

literature

• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 12.
• Bach gel packs, Mrs. Marie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 28 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No copy can be found