Rahel Meyer

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Rahel Meyer (born Rahel Weiß on March 11, 1806 in Danzig ; died February 8, 1874 in Berlin ) was a German writer. She published under the pseudonym Rahel .

Life

Rahel Weiß was married to her widower after the death of her sister Friederike. She devoted herself to raising her two children and the household and tried to educate herself on her own. The family moved to Vienna in 1852 for professional reasons , where they met the writers Leopold Kompert and Ludwig August von Frankl . Her first novel Zwei Schwestern was published in 1853. The biographical novella Rachel (Vienna, 1859) dealt with the life of the French actress Rachel Félix, who had died the year before . Meyer lived her last years with one of her daughters in Berlin . In contrast to the Salonnièren Henriette Herz , Rahel Varnhagen and Fanny Lewald , which she criticized , she remained loyal to Judaism, but rejected any religious compulsion.

Works

Rahel: Free in gangs (1865)
  • Poems . Danzig: Ewert, 1826
  • anonymous: Two sisters: a novel . Berlin: Veit and Comp., 1853
  • Rahel: Rachel: a biographical novella . Leipzig: Niest, 1859
  • Rahel: Against nature . Novel. Berlin: Otto Janke, 1863
  • Rahel: Free in gangs . Novel. Berlin: Otto Janke, 1865

literature

  • Florian Krobb: Meyer, Rahel. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 374f.
  • Meyer, Rahel. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 73-78.
  • Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Gabi Pailer: Lexicon of German-language epics and drama by women authors: (1730–1900) . Tübingen: Francke, 2006 ISBN 978-3-7720-8189-7 , pp. 295-298.
  • Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish Women in History, Literature and Art . Leipzig, 1878, pp. 248-253
  • Eva Lezzi: "Love is my religion!": Eros and marriage between Jews and Christians in 19th century literature . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1317-0 , pp. 135–140.

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Rahel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1874
Place of death Berlin