Marie Mindermann

Marie Mindermann

Marie Christiane Mindermann (born December 9, 1808 in Bremen , † March 25, 1882 in Bremen) was a German women's rights activist and writer who also wrote in the Low German dialect.

biography

Mindermann was the daughter of the master turner Johann Mindermann from Sagehorn (Oyten). The mother was Elisabeth Mindermann, née Flügger, and friends with the writer and educator Betty Gleim . This brought Marie Mindermann into contact with art and literature. She attended Klippschule until 1814 and was able to read by the age of five. By 1821 she graduated from the Lyceum and the scholarly school in Bremen. From 1830 she wrote anonymously in Bürgerfreund and from 1839 in Bremer Stadtbote . After the death of her parents (1839/1840) she lived with her friend Caroline Lacroix in the Neustadt .

politics

From 1848 Mindermann campaigned for more democratic rights and stood up for the revolutionary, democratic pastor Rudolph Dulon (1807-1870). When he was suspended as pastor by the Senate in 1851, she probably wrote an unsuccessful petition, which was signed by 5356 women and presented to Mayor Johann Smidt . In 1851/52 she wrote various anonymous writings. The Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen sued her and in 1852 she was sentenced to eight days in prison, alternatively fined 20 Taler . In 1852 she wrote the font Characteristics of the Bremen Modern Age at Schünemann Verlag . In 1867, together with Ottilie Hoffmann , Henny Sattler and other women, she founded the Bremen association for the expansion of the female work area , which later became known as the women's acquisition and training association . The association advocated women's suffrage, which could not be realized in Bremen until 1918.

Writer

From 1854 onwards she published collections of legends , fairy tales and stories. In 1856 she and a friend moved to St. Remberti Stift . In 1865 she became a member of the Goethebund. She wrote a number of Low German poems in the Bremer Platt .

Honors

The Marie-Mindermann Street in Bremen- Obervieland was named after her.

Works

• Heide und Moos, fairy tales for young and old , Lübeck 1854 ( digitized version )
• Field flowers , Bremen 1860
• Low German poems together with a collection of Low German poems and speeches , Bremen 1860 ( digitized version )
• Colorful foliage , Bremen 1863
• Legends of old Brema , Bremen 1867 ( digitized version )
• Dramatic trifles , Bremen 1867
• Ranken , Bremen 1867
• Flowers on the way , Bremen 1873
• Until the Senator , Bremen 1877
• The agate grinder. Oswald life pictures for the more mature youth , Glogau 1879
• An aunt , Glogau 1879
• Spruchschatz , Bremen 1879
• From life , Bremen 1880

literature

• Metta Meinken: A “Bremen woman” fighting for faith and truth . Bremen 1908.
• Biography of Bremen in the nineteenth century . Published by the Historical Society of the Artists' Association, Verlag Gustav Winter, Bremen 1912, pages 339–340.
• Truxi Knierim: The Revolution by Miss Mindermann . Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-7961-1821-6 .
• Johann Günther König: The arguable women of Bremen , Bremen 1981, ISBN 978-3-922496-20-5 .
• Christine-Holzner-Rabe: Mindermann, Marie Christine . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Verena Behrens, Gisela Menger (Ed.): Strong women: radically social and democratic; a dialogue with 150 years of Bremen history . Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-95494-069-1 .

Web links

• Marie Mindermann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
• The chiefs of Esens , poem by Marie Mindermann on Northeim's database of German poems
• Bremen women's history - Marie Mindermann