Louise by François

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Marie Louise by François; Photo around 1881 by Karl Festge
Residential house in Weißenfels, 2018
Memorial plaque on the residential building

Marie Louise von François (born June 27, 1817 in Herzberg (Elster) , † September 25, 1893 in Weißenfels ) was a German narrator and writer .

Life

Marie Louise von François was the daughter of the Prussian major Friedrich von François and his wife, née Amalie Hohl. She came from a Huguenot family and grew up in a wealthy family; but received only a moderate private lessons, so that they self-taught had to continue their education. She received her first literary stimuli through contacts with Fanny Tarnow and Adolf Müllner , which is how she met her fiancé Count Alfred von Goertz. After the death of her father, she lost her inheritance due to the negligence of her guardian and then lived from 1848 to 1855 in the households of her uncle, the Prussian general Karl von François , who lived in Minden, Halberstadt and Potsdam during this time. Their long-standing engagement was broken off due to financial difficulties. After her uncle's death in 1855, Louise von François returned to her mother in Weißenfels, who she cared for together with her stepfather, who later became blind, until the couple died in 1871 and 1874. From 1880/81 onwards she was in contact with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ; but took little part in social life and lived in seclusion. In 1883 she began to undertake smaller trips in German-speaking countries.

Her grave is located in cemetery III (current cemetery) in Weißenfels. Her house is now privately owned. A showroom is dedicated to the poet and her work.

Works

She began her writing career with smaller novels in the Cottaschen Morgenblatt for educated classes, mostly anonymously. The materially impoverished, but intellectually richly endowed nobleman lived from writing. Her stories from Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia show the precise observer, she reflects important events of her time in a very special way. Her writing was shaped by conservative Protestant morality. From the beginning of the 1860s until the death of her parents, she lived in Weißenfels and wrote her main work The Last Reckenburger here , a family novel that was received with the greatest acclaim by the critics.

Collections of short stories

  • Selected short stories (Berlin 1868, 2 volumes)
  • Stories (Braunschweig 1871, 2 volumes)
  • Hellstädt and other stories (Berlin 1874, 3 volumes)
  • Nature and grace, along with other stories (Berlin 1875, 3 volumes)
  • Phosphorus elder. At the feet of the monarch . Spemann, Stuttgart 1881. - 1887 edition, DC Heath, Boston, full text online .
  • Judith, the Kluswirthin . Novelle (first in "Selected Novellas", Berlin 1868) (Stuttgart 1883)

Further

  • Story of an ugly. Braunschweig 1871
  • The heir to Saldeck. Braunschweig 1871
  • The golden wedding. Narrative.
  • Collected works in 5 volumes. - Leipzig: Insel Verl, [1918]. - Vol. 1-5; 19 cm
  • Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Louise von François and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . An exchange of letters . Second, increased edition. Association of Scientific Publishers, Berlin 1920. - Full text online .
  • Joachim Jahns (ed.): Forgotten history (s) . Volume 1: From the Province of Saxony and Thuringia . Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1991, ISBN 3-928498-01-0 . (Contains among other things the text Napoleon in Weißenfels ).
  • Potsdam, a spring letter and other prose from Brandenburg . Dingsda-Verlag Querfurt 1992, ISBN 3-928498-16-9 .
  • The anniversary and other stories.
  • Miss Mutchen and her house maid.
  • On the story of my great-grandfather. Novella
  • At the feet of the monarch. Novella
  • Behind the cathedral. Novella
  • A formality. Narrative. Berlin, 1884

literature

  • Christine Touaillon : Luise von François . In: Neues Frauenleben , No. 7–8 / 1912 (XXIV. Volume), ZDB -ID 2428354-X , pp. 208–212. (Online at ALO ).
  • Ernst Schroeter: Louise von François. The poet's graduate years. In memory of the 100th anniversary of her birthday on June 27, 1917 . Lehmstedt, Weißenfels 1917. - Full text online .
  • Ernst Schroeter: Louise von François . In: Central German Life Pictures , Volume 1: Life Pictures of the 19th Century . Self-published by the Historical Commission, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 235–251.
  • Adalbert Elschenbroich:  François, Marie Louise. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 334 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Uta Scheidemann: Louise von François - Life and Work of a German Narrator of the 19th Century . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1987, ISBN 3-8204-9845-1 .
  • Eva Hoffmann-Aleith : A Fräulein from Weißenfels - The writer Louise von François . Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-89228-777-5 .
  • Louise by François. June 27, 1817 - September 25, 1893. On the 100th anniversary of death on September 25, 1993 . Museum Weissenfels (ed.), Weißenfels 1993.
  • Gisela Stockmann, “Louise by François. Poet's Laurel ”. In: Gisela Stockmann: Steps out of the shadows. Women in Saxony-Anhalt . Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1993, ISBN 3-928498-12-6 .
  • Uta Scheidemann: The dream biographies of Louise von François. Poetry and the prosaic reality of life in the 19th century . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-631-45984-X .
  • Uta Schuch: "Who was in the shadow". On the work of a forgotten writer: Louise von François . Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1994, ISBN 91-22-01617-1 .
  • Barbara Burns: François, Marie Louise von . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 154-157.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800-1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 93ff
  2. ↑ ISSN  0936-3947

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personal data
SURNAME François, Louise of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES François, Marie Louise von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German narrator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzberg (Elster)
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1893
Place of death Weissenfels