Marie Walden
Marie Walden (born on November 10, 1834 in Lützelflüh ; died on August 26, 1890 in Bern ) was the pseudonym of the Swiss writer Marie Henriette Rüetschi-Bitzius .
Life
Marie Henriette Bitzius was the daughter of pastor Albert Bitzius, who was known under the pseudonym Jeremias Gotthelf ; and his wife Henriette Bitzius-Zeender . She attended the Neuchâtel daughter institute from 1850 to 1852 . She then married the Sumiswald pastor Ludwig Rüetschi, with whom she had six children; her brother-in-law was the Bernese clergyman and university professor Albrecht Rudolf Rüetschi . Only after his death in 1867 did she move to Bern and start writing her father's biography. She published this in 1877 under a pseudonym. Other popular novels and narratives followed.
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In addition to the biography of her father, the first work, she also wrote life pictures about her brother Albert and her mother.
Her further stories took place in a rural but also urban milieu and testified in precise language the hard and dreary living conditions of the female protagonists, who are unloved and misunderstood by their surroundings and sometimes suffer bitterly ironic fates. Walden's stories are characterized, among other things, by the fact that the characters speak their respective Swiss-German or French dialect , while the narrative text is in standard German. She succeeded in this style better than her father. She also wrote some poems.
- Two colleagues
- From home (1880–1884)
- From the life of my brother Albert Bitzius. Government Council (1882)
- The Oracle (1887)
- Reconciled (posthumously 1894)
- Two years in the village (posthumous 1900)
- Stay in Switzerland 150 years ago (memories of the youth, posthumously, Bern 1997)
literature
- Carmen Furger: Walden, Marie. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Marie Walden. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walden, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rüetschi-Bitzius, Marie Henriette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lützelflüh |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1890 |
| Place of death | Bern |