Rosa Barach
Rosa Barach , née Gottlob , (born May 15, 1840 in Neu Raußnitz , Moravia , † February 22, 1913 in Vienna ) was an Austrian educator and writer . She also wrote under the pseudonym Maria Lavera .
Life
Gottlob was born in Neu Raußnitz as the eldest daughter of a tombstone maker and stonemason. The mother was sickly and thank God already had to earn the family's livelihood by crocheting at the age of seven. She attended the two-class normal school in her hometown and after school was the oldest of four sisters - she also had several brothers - she was responsible for the housework. At the age of 13 she came to the Ursuline convent school in Brno at her own request and from then on continued her education. She learned languages and dealt with geography, history and literature, especially with the writings of Heinrich Heine , Arthur Schopenhauer , Immanuel Kant and Baruch Spinoza .
She had lived in very poor conditions in the monastery and later attended a secondary school for girls, where she also taught as a seamstress. She went back to Neu Raußnitz and helped in the parental household. At the age of 16 she worked as a teacher on a Moravian estate and at the age of 21 took a similar position in Vienna, where she trained herself to be a teacher. She passed the teacher’s exam and founded a secondary school for girls in Rudolfsheim near Vienna in 1867 .
She married the doctor Sigmund Barach and gave up school to devote herself to raising her three children. She now turned increasingly to writing. Barach mainly wrote short stories, poems and writings for young people and wrote for various magazines. She was the first woman to give public lectures in Vienna and in 1882 went on a reading tour of her poems to Germany. Barach founded a children's asylum in Kahlenbergerdorf and called the Viennese writers' association “Vorwärts” into being.
All of her writings were awarded prizes at an exhibition in Chicago. She received 1st prize for the stories Soldiers Fritze and Aus Eigenkraft ; both were introduced in all school libraries by the Austrian Ministry of Education. Some of her poems were set to music and found their way into the repertoire of men's choirs.
Rosa Barach was buried on December 8, 1925 in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department MR, Group 12, Number 1G) in Vienna. The grave has since been abandoned.
Works
- around 1879: The German word. Dedicated to all Germans
- 1877: An evening among Freemasons
- 1878: On my own (narrative)
- 1881: Shackled (Lyric Poems)
- 1881: Soldier fritz
- 1881: From yellowed leaves (poems)
- 1882: From the heart of Austria (song book, with Karoline Murau )
- 1884: love sacrifice
- 1889: Franz Josef I.
- 1890: All Others (youth stories)
- 1890: ladybugs
- 1891: delusion and superstition (story)
- 1891: From the life of our emperor (poems)
- 1891: The Drawn (story)
- 1892: pansy (story)
- 1893: The woman as a nurse
- 1893: All three (short stories)
- 1893: An evening among Freemasons
- 1893: The Hunchback (story)
- 1898: My fatherland, my Austria (cooperation)
- 1910: A Moment of Lust (as Maria Lavera)
- n.d.: Manufactured. Epic poems
- n.d.: Tested and proven
- undated: Our emperor in song
- n.d.: Neuhof (epic)
literature
- Barach, Rosa . In: 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. 117.
- Rosa Barach . In: Eduard Hassenberger (Ed.): Austrian Kaiser Jubilee Poet Book. 50 years of Austria. Literature 1848-1898 . Eduard Hassenberger Verlag, Vienna 1899.
- Barach, Mrs. Rosa . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 36 f. ( Digitized version ). Rest of the list of works
Web links
- Rosa Barach in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
- Rosa Barach's biography with detailed references on univie.ac.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barach, Mrs. Rosa . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 36 f. ( Digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barach, Rosa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gottlob, Rosa (maiden name); Lavera, Maria (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Raußnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1913 |
| Place of death | Vienna |