Martha Rumbauer

Martha Rumbauer , married Martha von Siegroth (born October 22, 1862 in Medwitz near Belzig , † March 10, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German writer and translator.

Live and act

Rumbauer was the daughter of a teacher. In 1864 she came to Berlin with her family , where she also spent her school days. With the support of her father, she began her first literary attempts at an early age and was able to make her debut successfully around 1880 in the feature pages of various, mostly Berlin, newspapers, such as Deutsches Mondagsblatt or Illustrierte Frauen-Zeitung . Publishers like Franz von Lipperheide and colleagues like Johanna Lankau supported her in this.

From 1882 she went on an extensive study trip to and through Italy . She visited u. a. Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples and reported from these cities in the feature pages of several German newspapers. In 1883 she returned to Berlin and traveled to the USA the following year . In the spring of 1885 she returned to Berlin and settled there as a freelance writer.

In 1889/90 Rumbauer worked in the editorial department of the Berlin Salon and in 1896 again for a few months for the Adels- und Salonblatt .

On April 3, 1911, she married Franz von Siegroth (born March 27, 1838 Breslau, + March 23, 1918 Berlin) a military writer and former officer in Berlin.

She published some of her works under her married name, but continued to publish others under her maiden name.

Works (selection)

as an author

• From the banks of the Ganges. Comedy in one act . Berlin 1881.
• Under the northern lights. Norwegian narration . 1890.
• Roman mosaic. Italian novellettes and atelier secrets . 1890.
• A. Schwartz (1837-1904). A memorial sheet . In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Vol. 71 (1904), ISSN  1611-4280 , pp. 5891-5893.

as a translator

• Gino Bertolini : Balkan Pictures . 1909.
• Antonio Cecchi : Travels through the southern border countries of Abyssinia from Zeila to Kaffa. Five years in East Africa . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1888.
• Carlo Gardini : In the Stars and Stripes Republic . 1900.
• Emilio Salgari : The Black Corsair . 1929.

literature

• Franz Brümmer (Ed.): Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 6. Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1975, p. 429 (reprint of the Leipzig 1920 edition).
• Rumbauer, Miss Martha . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 214 f. ( Digitized version ).