Minna Rudiger

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Minna Rudiger

Minna Rüdiger (born April 5, 1841 as Wilhelmine Margarethe Charlotte Waack in Lübeck ; † February 27, 1920 ibid) was a nationally known, now largely forgotten, writer of her time. Minna was her nickname, which she also used as an author's name.

Life

Minna Rüdiger was born as the second daughter of the headmaster of the boys' school in St. Marien (elementary school), Heinrich Friedrich Asmus Waack (1808 - 1893) at Fleischhauerstraße 72 (since 1884: 71) and grew up there with nine siblings, two of whom were early died.

Inspired by the works of Marie Nathusius , she wrote her first poems when she was about 14 years old. At that time arose between the sisters and the daughters of after Selmsdorf where her mother Margaretha Elisabeth (1818 - 1901) herstammte and her grandfather Johann Daniel Hempel (1785 - 1867) Sexton was appointed pastor and Consistorial Rüdiger a close friendship.

In 1863 she married the brother of her friends, the theologian John August Rüdiger , who at the time a teacher at the Higher School for Girls of Neustrelitz was. Soon afterwards he was appointed pastor at the city ​​church . In 1876 he became country pastor in Hinrichshagen near Woldegk . Her husband died in 1895 after 32 years of marriage.

After the “year of grace” in the pastorate, she moved into a widow's house in Hinrichshagen. In 1901 she moved to Lübeck to live with her unmarried older sister Marie Waack in the house at Charlottenstrasse 11, which her father, who died in 1893 , had moved into after his retirement in 1880.

The funeral service took place on the afternoon of March 3rd in the St. Jürgen Chapel . The funeral speech was given by her son Hans Rüdiger , senior pastor to St. Laurentius in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) . He concluded with the words that formed the motto of life for his mother from 1 John 5 : 4  LUT : Our faith is the victory that has overcome the world .

Hans was one of the five of her ten children who were still alive when she died. In addition to the five, she had 13 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of the daughters, Magdalena, was married to Christian Reimpell . He was the main pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and pastor in the 3rd pastoral district , which at that time also included the St. Jürgen Chapel and its cemetery.

plant

After the first attempts at poetry in her youth, her duties as a housewife and mother stopped her writing. It wasn't until the mid-80s that she found time for literary work again. Her first larger story, Waldtraut , was published in 1888. She chose the subjects of her books from the past of her closer home. Some of the works of Minna Rüdiger achieved a large number of editions. In the last year of her life she published two stories, Friends for Life and The Bright Light .

Contemporary literary criticism found her specifically Christian books to be "old-fashioned". This is how Wilhelm Lobsien judged in 1908: She swims in the wake of an art that has been overcome, but has made very interesting contributions to the characteristics of old Luebian folk life that her other books will outlive.

Works

Unforgotten

Major works

  • Waldtraut. 1888.
  • The Knights of the Hopfenburg.
  • Faithful love. Notes of brother Eliland, the pastor of Buchhorn. Schwerin 1899.
  • The councilman's wife.
  • Barbara.
  • Through deep water.
  • The last of their gender.
  • In a roundabout way.

stories

  • Habermann's foster son.
  • He seeks what is lost.
  • For the sake of faith.
  • From free imperial cities.

memories

When she died in 1920, the following were classified as culturally and historically valuable:

  • Unforgotten
  • Retrospectives.

Children's books

  • Pleasures and sorrows of childhood.
  • In the twilight hour.
  • From grandmother's treasure chest.
  • Loyalty for loyalty.

References

literature

  • Minna Rudiger. In: Father-city sheets . No. 14, April 2, 1911.
  • Minna Rüdiger †. In: Father-city sheets. No. 12, March 14, 1920.
  • Rolf Saltzwedel : The memories of the writer Minna Rüdiger. In: The car . 1982, pp. 141-152.
  • Timo Ehmke: Rüdiger, Minna. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. December 30, 2002, archived from the original on November 25, 2003 ; accessed on October 31, 2016 (newer versions subject to a charge).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Lobsien: The narrative art in Schleswig-Holstein from Theodor Storm to the present. Chr. Wolff, Altona 1908, p. 124.
  2. ↑ In the style of a chronicler, she tells the chronicle of a pastor in Hinrichshagen
  3. ↑ From the time when the Reformation knocked on the gates of Lübeck.
  4. ↑ In this work she set a monument to many Lübeck residents and their parents' house (cf. Ludwig Ewers : Die Großvaterstadt )
  5. ↑ Looking back on her time as a pastor's wife in Hinrichshagen

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personal data
SURNAME Rudiger, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüdiger, Wilhelmine Margarethe Charlotte (full name); Waack, Wilhelmine Margarethe Charlotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1920
Place of death Lübeck