Marthe Renate Fischer

Marthe Renate Fischer

Marthe ( also: Martha ) R. ( Renate ) Fischer (born August 17, 1851 in Zielenzig ; † July 17, 1925 in Saalfeld ) was a German writer. She wrote mainly poems, short stories, short stories and novels. She became known primarily as a local poet. However, the different publishing locations, all of which are outside of Thuringia, speak in favor of supra-regional awareness. Her books received several editions during their lifetime and were reprinted more frequently after Fischer's death.

life and work

Fischer was born as the youngest daughter of the impoverished landowner Heinrich Fischer in Zielenzig (then the Prussian province of Brandenburg). She spent her childhood and youth in great isolation. Her writing began with sketches, mostly serious content, for newspapers and magazines, which were followed by various larger works from 1888 onwards.

After living at the government seat of the Prussian administrative district of Frankfurt (Oder) and the metropolis of Berlin ( Friedenau district ), she moved back to the rural area. She got to know Thuringia through visits to her relatives and stayed here until her death in 1925. First she lived in Uhlstädt until 1910 , in Leutenberg until 1914 and finally in Dorndorf near Rudolstadt and Saalfeld . The life in Hexengrund between Orlamünde and Großkochberg inspired her most successful work Die aus dem Drachenhaus (1920), in which she describes in detail the superstition and its consequences in this area in the old Thuringian dialect .

“Thuringia has been described often and adequately. Rarely with the same poetic power, the same luminous color, the same robust authenticity, the same unvarnished truth, the same high seriousness, the same exuberant humor, as with Marthe Renate Fischer. "

- '' Allgemeine Thüringische Landeszeitung Deutschland, December 19, 1924 ''

Fischer remained unmarried. The funeral oration was given by the later regional bishop Moritz Mitzenheim . Since 2001 it has been further honored, among other places, in the rafting museum in the old Uhlstadt fortified house.

Publications

• The sincere. A peasant story, Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart 1894.
• The youngest of the shamrock. Story for young girls. With 6 pictures by E. Klingebeil u. A. v. Rössler, F. Loewe Stuttgart 1894.
• Vain sunshine. A funny, educational story from the happy girls' days. With color dr. Pictures after watercolors v. W. Claudius, Schmidt & Spring, Stuttgart 1888.
• In the life of Lenze, with 4 Lichtdr., Schmidt & Spring, Stuttgart 1890.
• At the time of the rose bloom. The amiable youth u. told her friends, Schmidt & Spring, Stuttgart 1893.
• On the way to paradise. Thüringische Novellen, Grunow Leipzig 1902 (new edition under the title: On the way to paradise. Thüringische Erzählung (= Schauenburg's Volksbücherei; No. 1-3), M. Schauenburg Lahr in Baden, 1927.
• The sponsored child. A Thuringian novel, 1907.
• From quiet corners: Novellas (The flag bearer - My friend August - Ratmann Wallup - The blind man - The wife of Marree - Didn't the owl cry? - My first veil - The old man Dahleke - Lotte.), Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart, 1911.
• Mr and Mrs von Bosien (= Ensslin's Mark volumes; 44), Ensslin & Laiblin Reutlingen, 1919.
• The one from the dragon house, 1920, 2. – 4. 1923 edition (Newly edited by Hans Friese, at the press office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia in conjunction with the Wartburg Verl. Max Kessler Jena; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, 1967, 2nd edition 1969).
• We draw our life road. Thuringian novel, Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart, 1920.
• Little Helma Habermann, 1922, 3rd edition 1923.
• Paule. Story (= Der Kranz; H. 43), Schriftenvertriebsanstalt Berlin, 1924.
• Hear what the Scholle is talking about, Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart, 1st + 2nd Edition 1925.
• The love sweet. Thuringian Novelle (= collection of short stories), Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart, 1925.
• The Blöttner's daughter. Thuringian novel, Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart, 1926 (new edition by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, 1977, 2nd edition 1978).

New editions:

• New editions of "Patenkind", "Blöttnertugt" ed. v. Josef Witsch at Korn Breslau under the overall title "Die Kornkammer, Erzählungen, Volume 1-2", 1943.
• The raft trip and other things from the works of the poet Marthe Renate Fischer. Selected and a. by Hans Friese, ed. vd Press Office of the Evangelical Luth. Church in Thuringia in connection with the Wartburg-Verlag Max Kessler Jena, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1965, 2nd edition 1970, new edition 1990 (Wartburg-Verlag).

Autobiographical works

• The last stop. Sketches from d. Retirement home, Adolf Bonz & Comp. Stuttgart 2nd edition 1925.

literature

• Fischer, Miss Martha Renate . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 215 ( digitized version ).
• Fischer, Martha Renate . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 506 ( digitized version ). - Addendum
• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 8 vols., Leipzig 1913
• Karl Demmel: Marthe Renate Fischer. In: From home. 8 (1934), volume 5, p. 4.
• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. Stuttgart 1947-1958.
• Ottogerd Mühlmann : Herald of Thuringian folklore: Marthe Renate Fischer. On the return of her birthday on August 17, 1851. In: Rudolstädter Heimathefte. Vol. 7 (1961), No. 8/9, pp. 221-223.
• Hans-Joachim Schreckenbach (edit.): Bibliography on the history of the Mark Brandenburg. Weimar 1970 ff.
• Rothen, Hannes / Rothen, Margit: Marthe Renate Fischer. A classic Thuringian narrator in Uhlstädt (= Uhlstädter Heimatbüchlein. History and Stories, Volume 4), municipal administration: Uhlstädt / Saale 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fischer, Miss Martha Renate . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 215 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Quoted from Rothen (2001), p. 29.

Web links

• Short biography and information on the work of Marthe Renate Fischer at Literaturport
• http://www.lyrikwelt.de/autoren/fischermarthe.htm
• Literature by and about Marthe Renate Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library