Marie Nathusius

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Marie Nathusius
Marie Nathusius and her husband Philipp von Nathusius at the time of their engagement

Marie Nathusius , b. Scheele (born March 10, 1817 in Magdeburg , † December 22, 1857 in Neinstedt ) was a popular narrator and songwriter . Alongside E. Marlitt , she was the most widely read German entertainment and youth writer of her generation. Her bestsellers Diary of a Poor Fraulein (1854), Langenstein and Boblingen (1855) and Elisabeth. A story that does not end with the marriage (1858) was reissued into the 1920s.

Life

The daughter of the pietistic pastor and later superintendent Friedrich August Scheele spent her childhood and youth in Calbe (Saale) , where she received a poor education. However, she was often able to accompany her father on his inspection trips. From 1834 she lived in Magdeburg, from 1835 in Eikendorf , where she ran the household of her brother Karl Scheele and took care of the upbringing of his foster children.

In March 1841 she married the manufacturer and publicist Philipp Nathusius . After a few trips to Provence, Italy and Switzerland, the couple settled in Althaldensleben . There she founded a “child custody institution” in 1844, a women's association for local health care, “rescue houses” for boys and girls and a “girls' work school”. After traveling to Paris and England in 1849, Nathusius and her husband moved to the newly acquired estate Neinstedt near Thale in the Harz Mountains in 1850 and founded a “boy rescue and brother house” ( see Protestant Foundation in Neinstedt ).

Her husband was raised to the nobility in 1861 on the occasion of the accession to the throne of King Wilhelm of Prussia . The couple had seven children, including the later politician Philipp von Nathusius-Ludom (1842–1900) and the later reform theologian Martin von Nathusius (1843–1906), both of whom emerged in journalism. The daughter of the former, the writer Annemarie von Nathusius (1874–1926), is Marie Nathusius' granddaughter.

Philipp von Nathusius bought the Volksblatt für Stadt und Land for instruction and entertainment in 1849 , which he was in charge of as publisher and editor until 1858. Most of Marie Nathusius' novels and short stories appeared there as preprints. The family was also close friends with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben . Marie Nathusius set his poems to music in 1847. The piano accompaniment to the now well-known children's song Alle Vögel are already there , whose melody goes back to an older folk song, comes from the joint song publication Forty Children's Songs by Hoffmann von Fallersleben . When Marie Nathusius died unexpectedly early in 1857, her friend Eleonore Fürstin von Reuss came to terms with her grief in the poem The year ends silently . Nathusius 'husband Philipp wrote a three-volume portrait of the deceased Marie Nathusius (1867/68) for the posthumous 15 -volume edition of Marie Nathusius' (1858–1869) collected writings .

Works

literature

  • Franz Brümmer :  Nathusius, Marie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 283-285.
  • Elise Gründler: Marie Nathusius. A picture of life in a new representation. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1908.
  • Susanne Kleiner: Marie Nathusius. A woman who made songs in bourgeois Protestantism of the 19th century. Wuerzburg 1995.
  • Lexicon of German poets and prose writers of the 19th century. Edited by Franz Brümmer, PH Reclam jun., 1888.
  • Ramona Myrrh: Nathusius, Marie Karoline Elisabeth Luise, b. Scheele. In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony Anhalt. Volume 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Köln u. a. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , pp. 337-341.
  • Matthias Puhle (Ed.): The soul wants to fly. A woman's life between adjustment and departure, Marie Nathusius (1817–1857). ISBN 978-3-89812-466-9 , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2007.
  • Sigrid Eleonore Schmidt: Marie Karoline Elisabeth Nathusius. In: Saxony-Anhalt's famous women. Kurzweiliges Nr. 37, ISBN 3-89772-031-0 , Tauchaer Verlag, Leipzig 2001, pp. 62-71.

Web links

Commons : Marie Nathusius  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. 227 f.
  2. ↑ Waltraud Linder-Beroud: All birds are already there (2009). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
personal data
SURNAME Nathusius, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bestselling author and song composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1857
Place of death Neinstedt