Nanny Lambrecht

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Nanny Lambrecht (born April 15, 1868 in Kirchberg (Hunsrück) as Anna Lambrecht; † June 1, 1942 in Schönenberg (Ruppichteroth) ) was a German writer who published around 25 novels and several volumes of short stories in the first third of the 20th century has, in addition, writings for the youth and a non-fiction book. Many of her works are set in the Hunsrück and the Eifel .

biography

Her two older sisters were born in the United States, where their parents immigrated in 1854, the year they were married. The father had learned the trade of shoemaker and ran a leather business with his brothers in Boston, Philadelphia. The emigration of the Lambrechts did not last, they returned to Kirchberg, where their father died at the age of 52 and left the family penniless.

Nanny Lambrecht attended a seminar for teachers in Xanten on the Lower Rhine and completed an apprenticeship in Belgium to learn French. In 1889 she was employed at the bilingual school in Malmedy in what was then the Prussian Rhine Province. For thirteen years she practiced the profession of elementary school teacher there, but it did not satisfy her. She began to write and publish her stories. In Malmedy she met her partner, the Walloon Fanny Bierens. Through some statements in letters that suggest a love affair, Susanne Hose comes to the conclusion that it was “more than an association of unmarried women.” Together they left Malmedy and lived in Aachen from 1904. Lambrecht established herself as a freelance writer on the then growing Catholic book and magazine market.

After the First World War, which she initially welcomed enthusiastically, Lambrecht moved from occupied Aachen to Bad Honnef, where she founded a literary-musical society. She published numerous novels and short stories, most recently the novel Anne-Brigitte in 1936 , which contained some concessions to the National Socialist ideology. In the same year she stopped publishing and retired with Fanny Bierens to Schönenberg an der Sieg, where she died in 1942.

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After the publication of her collection of novels Was im Venn ... (1904) and the Eifel novel Das Haus im Moor (1906), Lambrecht was labeled “Catholic Viebig ” by literary criticism , which she found inappropriate and offensive. There was a rumor of Clara Viebig's novel Das Weiberdorf , also set in the Eifel, that it had been indexed by the Catholic Church, but this is not true.

Lambrecht's novel Die Statuendame (1908) takes place in Malmedy and the surrounding villages of what was then Prussian Wallonia. In this work, she addressed the Germanization measures of the German government towards the Walloon minority. At the same time she deals with questions of women's emancipation.

In her Hunsrück novel Armsünderin (1909) the latent “Catholic literary dispute” ignited again. This literary dispute was only part of a larger controversy about the position of Catholics in the Protestant-dominated German Empire. The publication of the novel in the Reform Catholic-oriented magazine Hochland by the publisher Karl Muth angered the conservative ultramontanes . As a result, the Catholic book market was closed to Nanny Lambrecht.

The focus of the novel Poor Sinner , which is set in the Scheidbach settlement in Hunsrück , is a young woman from a tinker family who is impregnated by the son of a wealthy farmer and - rejected by all the villagers - gives birth to her illegitimate child in a quarry. This topic of the "single mother" as well as questions of birth control and abortion ( self-defense. The novel of the unborn , 1911) were discussed continuously at the beginning of the 20th century.

Commitment to the socially disadvantaged and advocacy for the emancipation of women run through all of Lambrecht's works, which, with their strongly regional orientation and long dialect passages, were close to the literary Heimatkunst movement. During the First World War she published several novels of war, in the twenties mainly historical and entertainment novels.

bibliography

  • What happened in the Venn ... Tales from the Eifel and Wallonia (1904)
  • Peddler children. Narration (1905)
  • The house in the moor. Eifel novel (1906)
  • The Land of Night (1908)
  • The statue lady! Novel of a Marriage and a People (1908)
  • All sinner village. New short stories and sketches (1908)
  • Poor sinner. Novel from the Hunsrück (1909)
  • The new mother. A book for women (1909)
  • The girls. A School Tragedy in Four Acts (1910)
  • The seekers. Novel (1911)
  • Brother human. Tales from the Ship of Fools (1912)
  • Self-defense. The novel of the unborn (1912)
  • The marriage village. Novel from the Belgian Country (1913)
  • The great duchess. Novel (1913)
  • The iron joy. Novel (1915), online
  • The flag of the Walloons. Novel (1915)
  • The prisoner of Belle-Jeanette (1916)
  • The hell. Adventures. Novel (1916)
  • The Hollaprin Trial (1917), online
  • From the Klappergasse. Stories (1917), ( Illustrierte Weltall-Bibliothek Vol. 11, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1917)
  • Susanna's smile. Novel from the Hunsrück (1918)
  • Before awakening. Novel (1920)
  • The secret guest. Novel (1920)
  • The blonde, the brown, the black. A travel novel from better days (1922)
  • The children of Cain. Novel (1922)
  • Stories from History (1922)
  • In the twelfth hour (1924)
  • The robbery of the royal castle (1926)
  • Overpride. A contemporary Rhenish novel (1927)
  • The lady in black. An event on Lake Lugano (1929)
  • Anne-Brigitte. Time Novel (1936)

literature

  • Christina Niem: Nanny Lambrecht. (1868-1942). An unadjusted writer. Social engagement and literary renewal in the Catholic controversy (= studies on folk culture in Rhineland-Palatinate 16). Society for Folklore in Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926052-15-5 (At the same time: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 1993).
  • Josef Schreier: Nanny Lambrecht and female fiction in the border region. In: Elisabeth Fischer-Holz (Ed.): Call and answer. Important women from the Euregio Meuse-Rhine area. Life pictures in three volumes. Volume 3: Women born 1855–1900. Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-920284-57-7 , pp. 17-43.
  • Adalbert Wichert:  Lambrecht, nanny. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 442 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Nanny Lambrecht  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Hose: Minorities and Majorities in the Narrative Culture (=  Writings of the Sorbian Institute . Volume 46 ). Domowina-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7420-2090-1 , p. 155 .
  2. ^ Sophie Lange: Clara Viebig was not on the index: "The Catholic Church is very angry with me" ; in: Eifel-Jahrbuch 2008, pp. 108–113; quoted from Clara Viebig Gesellschaft, secondary literature
personal data
SURNAME Lambrecht, nanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambrecht, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1942
Place of death Schönenberg (Ruppichteroth)