Olga Arendt

Olga Arendt , née Olga Morgenstern , pseudonym Rosa Morgan , (born November 19, 1859 in Berlin ; † May 29, 1902 there ) was a German writer and actress .

Life

The mother Lina Morgenstern

Arendt was born in Berlin as the daughter of the businessman Theodor Morgenstern and the women's rights activist and writer Lina Morgenstern . Arendt attended the Bussesche Höhere Töchterschule until she was 16 . Then she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Her plan to become an actress was banned by her father. After completing her education, she ran a private kindergarten that her mother had founded. In addition, she took acting lessons from Minona Frieb-Blumauer and after three years passed an examination from the Berlin court theater manager Botho von Hülsen , who recommended her to the court theater in Koburg-Gotha as her first lover. Due to the family's financial difficulties, the father also consented to Arendt's stage career.

After two years Arendt left the theater forever and worked in Berlin from 1886 to 1893 as a rhetorical and dramatic teacher. The future actress Gertrud Berry was one of her students . In Vienna, she took six months' instruction in declamation from the actor and reciter Joseph Lewinsky . Her first poems and stories were written, which she presented in lecture evenings in Mecklenburg, Silesia and Posen. She went on lecture tours in Vienna and Germany.

In 1893 she married the member of the state parliament and publicist Otto Arendt and withdrew from the public. After the birth of their third child together, Arendt fell ill with dropsy of the kidney around 1899 and died of the disease in 1902 in Berlin.

Works

• For sociable circles. Collection of serious and cheerful declamation pieces, together with an appendix of occasional poems. With a foreword by Minona Frieb-Blumauer . Edited by Olga Morgenstern. Rosenbaum & Hart, Berlin 1888.
• Fairy tale picture book by Olga Morgenstern. Poetry to living images, with precise instructions for installation and suitable music accompaniment. Bloch, Berlin 1891.
• New Year's Eve. Romantic narrative. Walther, Berlin 1893.
• A friendship day. Comedy in 1 act.Boch, Berlin 1894.
• Poems by Olga Arendt-Morgenstern. Edited by Lina Morgenstern after her death. German housewife newspaper, Berlin 1903.
• Ulla's childhood. A story for 8 to 14 year old girls and boys by Olga Arendt-Morgenstern. Edited by Lina Morgenstern. German housewife newspaper, Berlin 1903.

literature

• Arendt-Morgenstern, Mrs. Olga . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 16 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 72 f.
• Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, p. 7.

Web links

• Literature by and about Olga Arendt in the catalog of the German National Library