Mathilde Berensmann

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Alwine Mathilde Berensmann (born February 21, 1851 in Iserlohn , † February 18, 1926 in Dresden ) was a German writer . She wrote under the pen name Amber .

Life

She was born as the daughter of the clerk Carl Berensmann in Iserlohn. Her father died early and Berensmann had to earn a living as a housekeeper and companion in England before she trained as a teacher. After a breakdown due to “mental and physical overexertion” she returned to Germany and settled in Godesberg , where she lived in 1898. She later married a Mr. Neumann.

Berensmann began to write in Godesberg. It created short stories , songs and poems in several newspapers, including the Dichterheim , the German poet friend , the Dresden Frauenkirche newspaper and from house to house appeared. In 1897 she published the opera libretto Der Schützling , which was set to music by a Dresden composer.

literature

  • Berensmann, Mathilde . In: 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. 21.
  • Berensmann, Miss Mathilde . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 53 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the entry Mathilde Berensmann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors , 1852 is mentioned as the year of birth. But since the lexicon also refers to Pataky, it can be assumed that 1851 is correct.
  2. ^ Registry office Dresden II: death register . No. 392/1926.
  3. ↑ Pataky, p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Berensmann, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berensmann, Alwine Mathilde (full name); Neumann, Alwine Mathilde (married name); Amber (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1926
Place of death Dresden