Ottilie Bach

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Ottilie Bach around 1885.

Ottilie Bach (born July 6, 1836 in Hirschberg , Silesia , † May 27, 1905 in Berlin ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonyms O. Bach and Otto Ulrichs .

Life

Ottilie Bach was born in Hirschberg as the daughter of a factory owner and businessman. At the age of five, she moved with her parents to Berlin and received her education there. The death of her father had a lasting effect on Ottilie Bach, who was now forced to earn money as an educator. In the following years she worked near Berlin, Prague and Hungary , where in 1872 she wrote her first novel Ein Ehejoch . Numerous stories followed, which were also shaped by the emerging women's movement .

Ottilie Bach also served as the second chairwoman of the Association of German Writers and wrote for various newspapers and magazines in Germany and abroad.

Works

  • A marriage yoke (1872)
  • A monastery cabal. (1872)
  • In the last hour (1874)
  • Against the Current (1874)
  • National contrasts. Novel from the recent past. 2 volumes. Costenoble, Jena 1875.
  • A Missed Life (1877)
  • The demon of the house (1877)
  • The foster son (1879)
  • From Modern Times (1880)
  • The father's fault. Novel. LeCoutre, Berlin 1881.
  • Elfriede. Novel from the full present. Le Courtre, Berlin 1881.
  • Broken threads. Novel. Schottländer, Breslau 1881.
  • In the senator's house. Novel. 2 volumes. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1898.
  • Heavy days. Novella. Weichert, Berlin 1900.
  • Pink autumn. Novel. Central German Publishing House, Dresden 1917.

literature

  • Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures . Berlin, Thiel 1885, pp. 485-502.
  • Bach, Miss Ottilie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 28 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . First volume. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, pp. 98f.
  • 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. 12.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Brümmer; Friedrichs; Société bibliographique (ed.): Polybiblion: Revue bibliographique universelle . Aux bureaux de la revue, Paris 1905, p. 77. The German-Austrian Literature Society specifies June 27, 1905 as the date of death (cf. The German-Austrian Literature Society (Hrsg.): The literature: monthly journal for literary friends Vienna 1904, p. 1521.), fembio.org August 15, 1904.
  2. ↑ No copy can be found
  3. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Ottilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bach, O .; Ullrichs, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1905
Place of death Berlin