Marina Krebs

Marina Krebs before 1908

Signature as Maria Leske

Marina Krebs , married Witter, (born August 16, 1838 in Aschaffenburg , † 1910 ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonyms Marie or Maria Leske and Th. Armin .

Life

She was born in Aschaffenburg as the daughter of the publisher Karl Ludwig Krebs and Theone Georgine Julie Gertraude Emilie, the daughter of his former Darmstadt employer Carl Wilhelm Leske, and had two sisters: Louise (married Fritz Leidloff from Magdeburg) and Emilie (led after the death of Father's bookstore). Martin Balduin Kittel was her uncle. She was a member of the Brethren and grew up after the early death of her mother (1850) in the educational institution of the Brethren in Montmirail, Switzerland. In 1858 she married the publishing bookseller Konrad Witter in St. Louis , who died in 1867. She had returned to Germany with him in 1859 and lived in Aschaffenburg in 1893. She moved to Niesky in Upper Lusatia, where she lived in 1898, and around 1908 lived in the widow's house in Herrnhut, Saxony .

She wrote poems and essays for various magazines and wrote stories and poems for children.

Works

• 1865: Th. Armin: The old Mexico or the conquest of New Spain by Ferdinand Cortez, Leipzig at Otto Spamer https://books.google.de/books?id=WMUCQ481qgsC&pg=PP6&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
• 1865: Th. Armin (Hrsg.): The new or present day Mexico: Land and people under Spanish rule, as well as after independence, Leipzig from Otto Spamer https://books.google.de/books?id=lANCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP6&redir_esc= y # v = onepage & q & f = false
• 1865: Illustrated playbook for girls ( online ; 17th edition 1897)

literature

• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 340.
• Heinrich Groß (Hrsg.): German female poets and writers in words and pictures . Goldstein'sche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1893, pp. 32–33.
• Leske, Maria . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 495 ( digitized version ).
• Witter, Mrs. Marina . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 446 ( digitized version ).
• Bruno Volger (Hrsg.): Saxony's learned artists and writers in words and pictures. In addition to an appendix: "Non-Saxony" . Bruno Volger Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig-Gohlis 1907/08, p. 199. ( digitized version )