Marie Laura Förster

Marie Laura Förster (born March 9, 1817 in Dresden ; † April 28, 1856 there ) was a German writer .

Life

She was born as the eldest daughter of the writer Karl August Förster in Dresden. At the age of seven she wrote her first poems and acquired knowledge of various languages ​​and general science. At the age of 16 she took over the upbringing of her younger sister.

After her father's death in 1841, she went on numerous trips with friends of her family, which took her through the whole of Saxony, but also to southern Germany, Volhynia and southern Russia, where she stayed for two years. In 1853 she stayed in Italy and died in Dresden in 1856.

Förster processed her travels in her work Letters from South Russia during a stay in Podolia, Volhynia and the Ukraine , which appeared in 1856. She has also worked as a translator since the 1840s.

Works

• 1843: The Life of Margaret Davidson by Irwing (translation, original by Washington Irving )
• 1848: The Life of Laurentia Maria Davidson by Anna Sedgwick (translation, original by Catharine Sedgwick )
• 1856: Letters from southern Russia during a stay in Podolia, Volhynia and the Ukraine
• 1856: The Siblings (short story, 8th edition 1879)
• 1857: poems

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 2. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 242–243.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 84.
• Forester, Marie Laura . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 220 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Marie Laura Förster in the catalog of the German National Library