Marie Frank
Marie Frank , née Marie Bach, pseudonym: Marie Wegrainer (born March 13, 1852 in Lipprichhausen near Uffenheim ; died 1924 in Würzburg ) was a German writer.
Life
Marie Bach was the second illegitimate child of an unmarried maid, who later found a job as a cook in Rothenburg and finally married a shoemaker. Marie Bach grew up with foster parents, received six years of elementary school education and only got to know her birth mother when she herself had reached the age to be a maid. Unlike many in her class, however, she rebelled against her masters and therefore had to change jobs frequently.
Her later husband Johann Frank, born in 1850, came from Adelshofen and was a journeyman carpenter. In 1872 Marie Bach had their first son Hans with him; In 1876 the couple married and moved into a flat. Soon afterwards, the mother-in-law bought a tenement house in Würzburg from an inheritance , where the Frank family could live rent-free. After two daughters, Leonhard Frank was born there in 1882 . Marie Frank took on the role of housewife and mother in the poor circumstances, but suffered from constant harassment.
She published her only autobiographical novel in 1914 under the pseudonym Marie Wegrainer; he seems to have been shaped by her reading of newspapers like the Gazebo and serial novels. In 1952, her son described in his own autobiography that his mother had the idea for the work while visiting her son at his accommodation. In order to "protect him from winter hardship", she secretly described fifteen blue exercise books with her memoirs. The work was published in 1914 and brought in 1,800 marks, which Leonhard Frank no longer needed due to his own breakthrough in the same year. Instead, Marie Frank used the proceeds to improve her own household budget, again secretly.
plant
The life novel of a working woman: written by herself . Delphin-Verlag , 1914.
literature
- Werner Dettelbacher: In: Frauengestalten in Franken , ed. Inge Meidinger-Geise. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1985. pp. 171-173. ISBN 3-8035-1242-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bach, Marie (maiden name); Wegrainer, Marie (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lipprichhausen near Uffenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1924 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |