Ottilie Wildermuth

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Portrait of a youth by Ottilie Wildermuth, b. Rooschüz, painted by Sophie Pilgram around 1835

Ottilie Wildermuth , b. Rooschüz (born February 22, 1817 in Rottenburg am Neckar , † July 12, 1877 in Tübingen ) was a German writer and author of young books. Along with E. Marlitt and Marie Nathusius , she was one of the most widely read women writers of the 19th century.

Life

Ottilie Wildermuth's engraving after a photograph from the picture atlas on the history of the German national literature by Gustav Könnecke, Marburg 1895.
Ottilie Wildermuth, portrait photo by Paul Sinner , taken before 1877
Ottilie Wildermuth monument in Tübingen with a high relief - tondo of her portrait, created by Wilhelm Rösch

Ottilie Wildermuth-Rooschütz came in 1817 as the daughter of Kriminalrat Gottlob Christian Rooschütz (1785–1847) and his wife Leonore nee. Scholl (1796–1874) to the world. She was baptized as a Protestant in the Rottenburg Catholic Collegiate Church of St. Moriz , which was then used as a simultaneous church on royal orders. She was the oldest child in the family, followed by three brothers. She grew up in Marbach am Neckar , where her father was transferred after he was promoted to chief magistrate. Her strong thirst for knowledge became evident at an early age and she wrote her own poems and stories at a young age. She first received private tuition and then attended elementary school until she was 14. In summer 1833, the 16-year-old spent six months in a Housekeeping school in the residential city of Stuttgart , where she learned to cook and sew. She did not receive any further educational offers, so she learned her literary skills as well as English and French in self-study.

In 1843, at the age of 26, she married the philologist Wilhelm David Wildermuth (1807–1885), who was ten years her senior . After a long stay as court master in France and England, he got a job as a professor for modern languages ​​at the Lyceum in Tübingen, today's grammar school. Ottilie Wildermuth formed a "wreath" with women from Tübingen, to which she belonged for 34 years until her death. Right from the start, Ludwig Uhland and his wife, Emilie Auguste, geb. Vischer, Auguste Eisenlohr, the daughter of the village pastor Gustav Feuerlein from Wolfschlugen and her husband Theodor Eisenlohr , the family of the poet Karl Mayer , Karl August Klüpfel , Gustav Schwab and "as usual", a number of Tübingen university professors. Her diverse education enabled Ottilie Wildermuth to take part in her husband's work. She also gave English lessons for girls herself, was active in charities and as a landlady for subtenants. She kept in close contact with other women's associations and above all with the Protestant Swabian circles.

Grave of the Wildermuth family in the Tübingen city ​​cemetery

Of five children she gave birth between 1844 and 1856, the daughters Agnes and Adelheid and the son Herrmann survived . In 1847 she took her widowed mother into her house and looked after her here until she died in 1874.

In 1847 she first sent a story entitled The Old Maid to Cottas Morgenblatt . After this was accepted for print, she wrote further stories, novellas, life pictures, family and youth stories, idyllic depictions of Protestant Swabian life, the material of which she obtained from her immediate vicinity. The widely read family magazines ( Daheim , Die Gartenlaube and more than a dozen others) printed their stories according to the public's taste and made her the best-known writer of her time, who was read across all social classes. In 1876 she published the annual volume "The Youth Garden - A Festschrift for Boys and Girls" founded by the Kröner publishing house. Later her daughters Agnes Willms and Adelheid Wildermuth took over the editing. In 1871 Ottilie Wildermuth received the great gold medal for art and science in Württemberg.

She regularly made short trips to Alsace, Switzerland, Baden-Baden and Holstein . From the age of fifty, her health was severely affected by a recurring nervous disease. On July 12, 1877, at the age of sixty, she died of a stroke. She was buried in the Tübingen city cemetery, where her grave is still located.

Her grandson was the politician Eberhard Wildermuth and her great-grandson was the basketball official Burkhard Wildermuth .

Works (book editions)

Ottilie Wildermuth's former home in Marbach am Neckar
Memorial plaque on the former house in Marbach am Neckar
  • Pictures and stories from Swabian life (1852, also contain: Swabian parsonages . Digitized )
  • New pictures and stories from Swabia. 1854. ( digitized version )
  • From the children's world. 1854. ( Digitized from the children's world , further digitized )
  • Olympia Morata . A Christian image of life. 1854. ( digitized version )
  • Stories and fairy tales for the youth. 1855. New edition in 1865 as Von Berg und Tal .
  • From women's life. Stories. 1855. (In it: A carefree life; morning, noon and evening; the scorned; independence; the first marital dispute; the two sisters' apprenticeship years; letters from girls; happiness in life; an autumn day near Weinsberg .)
  • From women's life. Volume 2. 1857. ( digitized version )
  • Auguste. A picture of life. Krabbe, Stuttgart 1858. ( digitized version )
  • The woman's home. 1859. (In it: Homecoming , Missed Choice , Home . Digitized )
  • From castle and hut. Stories for Children 1861.
  • In daylight. Pictures from reality. 1861. (Inside: women's gallery; in front of the last house; Mr. Wezler and his wife; reunion; Eugenie . Digitized )
  • Seals. Detloff, Basel 1863. ( digitized version )
  • Life riddles, solved and unsolved. 1863. (In it: Klosterfäulein; Love spells; Did it have to be? A dark family story; Three festivals .)
  • Youth gift. Stories for the youth. Union German publishing company, Stuttgart 1864. ( digitized version )
  • Child greeting. Stories for the children. 1864.
  • Stories. 1866.
  • The hermit in the forest. A Christmas story from America. 1867.
  • Pearls from the sand. 1867. (In it: From murky waters; The school of humility; Marie and Maria; Dove flowers . Digitized )
  • For free hours. Stories for the youth. Krabbe, Stuttgart 1869. ( digitized 2nd edition )
  • At twilight hour. 1871. Digitized
  • Youth publications (22 volumes, 1871–1900)
    • A lonely child. The waters in 1824. (Two stories)
    • Three schoolmates. The mirror of the dwarfs. (Two stories)
    • A strange school. Bärbeles Christmas. (Two stories)
    • A queen. Children's prayer. (Two stories)
    • Late luck. The three sisters from the forest. (Two stories)
    • The holidays at Bärenburg Castle. The sand boy or who's got it best? (Two stories)
    • Cherubino and Zephirine. Maybe that's right. (Two stories)
    • Little brother and little sister. The hermit in the forest. (Two stories)
    • The Peterli from Emmenthal. Two fairy tales for the little ones.
    • War and peace. Emma's pilgrimage. (Two stories)
    • The brown loin. The king's godchild. (Two stories)
    • After rain, sunshine. Mrs. Luna. The tree in the forest. (Three stories)
    • The neighborhood children. Kordula's first trip. Balthazar's apple trees.
    • The wonderful cave. The stone cross. Our old Marie.
    • The clever Bruno. An old guilt. Pick up what God puts at your door.
    • Elisabeth. The three Christmas trees. Klarchen's recovery. The Feenthal.
    • From the poor star. A true story.
    • An angel was walking through the house. The pastor's cow. The first sea voyage. (Three stories)
    • Black loyalty. (Narrative)
    • The Easter song. The children of the heather. (Two stories)
    • Up and down. (Narrative)
    • The red court. A story from the march.
  • Children's congratulations. (3 volumes)
    • Birthday. 1874.
    • At Christmas and New Years. 1875.
    • For hen parties and weddings. 1875.
  • From north and south. Stories. 1874.
  • Ottilie Wildermuth's works . 8 volumes. Krabbe, Stuttgart 1862. Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5 , Volume 6 , Volume 7 , Volume 8

Participation

  • Collaboration on: Stories for New Year's Eve. 1860.
  • Sunday afternoons at home. Considerations for domestic edification. After the English. 1860. ( digitized version )
  • Preface to: Anna von Wächter: The female profession. Thoughts of a woman. Free from English. 1861.
  • Editor: The youth garden. A festival edition for German youth (22 volumes 1876-1896, continued by Wildermuth's daughters)

Publications from the estate

  • My songbook. Kröner, Stuttgart 1877. ( digitized version )
  • By the lamplight. Kröner, Stuttgart 1878. ( digitized version )
  • Salome knows advice! Klein, Bremen 1879.
  • Little stories. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1880.

Honors

15 years after Ottilie Wildermuth's death, the monument dedicated to her, built at the instigation of Mathilde Weber , was unveiled. The monument in the form of a low obelisk , which contains a high relief tondo by Wilhelm Rösch , is financed thanks to the numerous donations and is located on the Tübingen Neckar Island near the avenue bridge . The nearby Wildermuth-Gymnasium , built in 1927, was named after her when it was completed.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . Pp. 326-329
  2. ↑ Eva Kuby: “Drive the Lord through the mind!” Auguste Eisenlohr - A woman's life in the Vormärz. Silberburg Verlag, ISBN 3-87407-225-8 .
  3. ↑ cf. pantoia.de
  4. ↑ Vera Vollmer: Baden-Württemberg portraits, female figures from five centuries , ed. by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, p. 124.
  5. ↑ http://www.bbwbasketball.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bbw_chronik.pdf

literature

  • Agnes Willms, Adelheid Wildermuth (ed.): Ottilie Wildermuth's life, compiled and supplemented from her own notes. Kröner, Stuttgart undated [1888].
  • Anna Blos : Women in Swabia. Fifteen pictures of life . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1929, p. 148-168 ( wlb-stuttgart.de ).
  • Rosemarie Wildermuth (arrangement): Ottilie Wildermuth 1817–1877. German Schiller Society, Marbach 1986. (= Marbacher Magazin, vol. 37)
  • Maria Pfadt: Ottilie Wildermuth. Profiles of their children's and youth literature. Dissertation. Ludwigsburg University of Education 1994.
  • Rosemarie Wildermuth (Ed.): “Dear friend! Where are you? ”Justinus Kerner's correspondence with Ottilie Wildermuth 1853–1862. With a foreword by Bernhard Zeller. Lithos et al., Weinsberg / Marbach / Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-88480-022-1 .
  • Vera Vollmer : Ottilie Wildermuth. In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (ed.): Baden-Württemberg portraits. Female figures from five centuries. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05271-9 , pp. 122–127.
  • Jonathan Schilling: Ottilie Wildermuth. A forgotten Christian bestselling author. In: Ottilie Wildermuth: In happy and tired times. Rhyming and narrated. A reader. Edited by Jonathan and Ulrike Schilling. SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-7751-5768-1 .
  • Jonathan Schilling: "God-loving and talkative and writable". Ottilie Wildermuth as a religious woman and writer. In: Schwäbische Heimat , Vol. 68, No. 1, 2017, pp. 62–67.
  • Jonathan Schilling: Ottilie Wildermuth and Pietism. Faith and piety in the life and work of a 19th century writer. In: Blätter für Wuerttemberg Church History, Volume 117, 2017, pp. 181–213, ISSN  0341-9479 .
  • Günther Schweizer : Ottilie Wildermuth b. Rooschütz (1817–1877) and their Swabian roots. The ancestors of the writer and their families. Association for family studies in Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart 2017 (= Southwest German ancestral lists and pedigree; 6).
  • Günther Schweizer / Jens Th. Kaufmann: Additions to the list of ancestors Ottilie Wildermuth geb. Rooschütz. Her genealogical roots in Heilbronn, Alsace, Mainz, Leipzig, Chemnitz and Upper Austria . In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde, Vol. 37 (2019), pp. 271–301.

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personal data
SURNAME Wildermuth, Ottilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rooschütz, Ottilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenburg am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1877
Place of death Tübingen