Minna Apranzow

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Wilhelmine "Minna" Karoline Friederike Apranzow , b. Beringer (born February 5, 1790 in Berlin ; † 1844 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Minna Apranzow was born as the daughter of a wine tavern in Berlin. She contracted measles as a child and became blind as a result of the disease. Both parents died early, so that Minna Apranzow spent her childhood in a poor and work house. From 1806 she attended the Prussian Royal Institute for the Blind in Berlin, where she received lessons. It was there that she met Apranzow, who was also a blind volunteer and whom she later married. The couple had two children.

meaning

At the age of 24, Minna Apranzow published her first work "Dichtungssprösslinge", which had a second edition as early as 1821 and was one of the few books of poetry written by women dealing with the Wars of Liberation against Napoléon Bonaparte . Similar volumes of poetry can only be found in Elise Bürger ("Lieder am Rhein Gedicht" 1814) and Engel Christine Westphalen ("Gesänge der Zeit" 1815). In the same year, Minna Apranzow published a play with a similar theme, “The return from the fight for freedom”.

plant

  • Seal sprouts. (1814)
  • The return from the freedom struggle. (1814)

literature

  • Carl W. von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century . Olms, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-06581-9 (reprint of the Leipzig 1823 edition), p. 13.
  • Susanne Kord: A look behind the scenes. German-speaking playwrights in the 18th and 19th centuries . Metzler, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-476-00835-5 , p. 333.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Weber: Between emancipation and discipline. On the opinion and will-building function of political poetry in newspapers during the wars of liberation . In: Ulrich Herrmann: People, Nation, Fatherland . Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 1996, pp. 325–353, here p. 342.
  2. ↑ No copy can be found
  3. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Apranzow, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apranzow, Wilhelmine Karoline Friederike; Apranzow, Minna (nickname); Beringer, Minna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1844
Place of death Berlin