Rosa Axamethy

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Rosa Axamethy , b. Racher, also Rosa Axamethy-Racher, (born June 27, 1857 in Temesvár , Hungary , † after 1913), was an Austrian writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Amern .

Life

Axamethy was born in the Banat as the daughter of a Kuk military superintendent . After a short time, the family moved to Vienna , where Axamethy grew up and attended school. In 1874 she began to work as a writer, but initially devoted herself mainly to music and drama. She took singing lessons from Mathilde Marchesi and received acting lessons from Alexander Strakosch for two years . Shortly before her acting debut, she married the politician Dr. Ludwig Axamethy, who later rose to the position of Ministerialrat. She moved with him to Budapest and never returned to the stage.

Her stories appeared in magazines as early as 1900.

Works

  • Sleeping Beauty (novel, 1903)
  • In the forest (novellas, including: cuckoo , cyclamen , sunset ; 1904)
  • Psyche (novel, 1905)
  • From the deepest chest (poems, 1907)
  • The ancestor (novel, 1908)

literature

  • 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. 96.
  • 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. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Axamethy, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Racher, Rosa (maiden name); Amern, Paul (pseudonym); Axamethy-Racher, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Temesvár , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 20th century