Marie von Olfers

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Marie von Olfers after a painting by Ferdinand Graf Harrach 1892
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Marie von Olfers (pseudonym M (aria) Werner, Werner Maria ; born October 27, 1826 in Berlin ; † January 8, 1924 there ) was a German writer , illustrator and salonnière .

Life

Marie von Olfers was the second daughter of the General Director of the Royal Museums Ignaz von Olfers and the writer Hedwig, née von Staegemann . She became interested in music, painting and poetry from an early age. Her parents' house, which was the meeting point of the intelligentsia in Berlin, promoted these interests. Her childhood friends included the daughters Bettina von Arnims , Gisela , Armgart and Maximiliane , who founded the exclusively female coffee group in Berlin in 1843 . In this literary salon, where the daughters of the Berlin bourgeoisie and the aristocracy regularly met, Marie von Olfers wrote his first smaller works, which appeared in the salon's own coffee newspaper.

From 1860 she published poems, children's books and novellas, mostly under the pseudonym Maria Werner, which she illustrated herself. After the death of her mother, with whom she had lived, she continued her salon tradition. Ernst von Wildenbruch , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Rainer Maria Rilke and Richard Voss were among their guests and admirers, along with many other artists, scholars and members of the military and court society. For some time she was a board member of the Association of Berlin Artists . On the occasion of her 80th birthday, a Marie von Olfers Foundation was set up to promote children's books in 1906.

Mentally active into old age, Marie von Olfers died in an accident in her apartment on Schöneberger Ufer in Berlin-Tiergarten in early 1924 . She had tried to put a burning coal that had fallen back into the fireplace. Her clothes caught fire and she died before anyone could come to her aid. She was buried in the grave of her grandparents Friedrich August and Elisabeth von Staegemann in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The grave is preserved. Her small, heavily weathered tombstone bears the inscription, "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they will see God" (Mt 5: 8).

A niece, Margarete von Olfers, published her diaries and letters in two volumes from 1928 onwards. Marie von Olfers had great artistic influence on another niece, Sibylle von Olfers .

Works

Three fairy tales. For the good of a poor orphan, ed. v. Maria von Olfers, 1862
  • Three fairy tales. For the good of a poor orphan. Nauck, Berlin 1862. ( digitized version )
  • Mr. Pug. A fairy tale. Korn, Berlin 1863. ( digitized version )
  • Mrs. Evchen. A very common history. Decker, Berlin 1865.
  • Novellas. Berlin 1872.
  • Ownership (novella, in: Deutsche Rundschau, 1. Jg. Vol. 2, 1875)
  • New novellas. Hertz, Berlin 1876.
  • Nathanael. 1880.
  • Drawing and painting primer. Richter, Leipzig / Berlin 1882. ( digitized version )
  • The Son of the Heart 1882.
  • Much love. A flower fairy tale. Stilke, Berlin 1881.
  • Ragenhart and Swanhild. A resin epic from the eighth century in 12 songs. Self-published, Königsberg 1883.
  • Simplicity. Epic poem. Hertz, Berlin 1884. ( Electronic new edition 2014 )
  • Marriage of reason and other short stories. Hertz, Berlin 1887.
  • Flappers and old maids. Novellas. Concordia, Berlin 1897.
  • Two novels. Jeremias and the beautiful Vincenzia, Mrs. Evchen. Paetel, Berlin 1907.
  • Maximiliane Countess of Oriola, b. by Arnim. A memory for young people (in: Illustrierte Frauen-Zeitung, 22nd year, issue 4)
  • Letters and Diaries , ed. v. Margarete von Olfers. Mittler, Berlin 1928–1930.
    • Volume 1: 1826-1870
    • Volume 2: 1870-1924
  • Rose clouds. Self-published, Roskow 1909.

literature

  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures : Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, p. 258ff.
  • Olfers, Marie von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 103 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin salons: With historical-literary walks . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016414-0 .

Web links

Commons : Marie von Olfers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Marie von Olfers  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marie von Olfers remained unmarried throughout her life.
  2. ^ Marie von Bunsen : Marie von Olfers † . In: Vossische Zeitung , January 9, 1924, morning edition, p. 5.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 245.
  4. ^ Petra Wilhelmy Dollinger: The Berlin salons. With historical and literary walks . De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020488-9 , p. 414.
  5. ↑ No copy can be found
  6. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Olfers, Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marie Werner (pseudonym); M. Werner (pseudonym); Werner, Maria (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer, illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1924
Place of death Berlin