Minna Kautsky

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Minna Kautsky on an engraving before 1890 after a photograph by Ludwig Angerer or Victor Angerer

Minna Kautsky , b. Wilhelmine Jaich (born June 11, 1837 in Graz , † December 20, 1912 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was an actress and writer . Her novels are strongly influenced by socialism and the ideas of the contemporary women's movement . She also wrote under the pseudonyms Eckert and Wilhelm Wiener .

Life

Minna Kautsky was the daughter of the theater painter Anton Jaich, who lived in Prague with his family from 1845 . Kautsky occasionally appeared there as an actress at the Niklastheater and the Stadttheater . In 1854 she married the landscape and theater painter Johann Kautsky (1827-1896) and had a daughter and three sons with him. In the following years she worked as an actress in Olomouc , Sondershausen , Güstrow and at the Czech national theater in Prague until she had to give up acting in 1861 due to a lung disease. She lived in Vienna from 1863 to 1886 , where her husband got a job as a court theater painter. Then the family moved to St. Gilgen and in 1904 to Berlin.

In 1870 she wrote an article in a clerical Bohemian newspaper under the pseudonym Eckert . This was followed by articles in the social democratic New World and, under the pseudonym Wilhelm Wiener, some articles in the theoretical organ of the social democracy of the new age . In 1885 she joined the Vienna Writers and Artists Association and served as its president from 1886 to 1887. She became acquainted with socialist ideas through her son Karl Kautsky in 1875 and visited Friedrich Engels in London in the summer of 1885 . Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach visited Minna Kautsky between 1889 and 1889 in St. Gilgen , where the Kautsky couple lived in Villa Kotzian .

She was friends with Wilhelm Liebknecht , Victor Adler , Franz Mehring and Rosa Luxemburg . From September 20, 1904, she first lived with her son Karl in Berlin "Friedenau bei Berlin Saarstrasse 19" then separately in her own apartment in "Friedenau near Berlin Ringstrasse 17". She died on December 20, 1912 in the district hospital in Berlin-Lichterfelde a pneumonia . According to a will, her body was cremated on December 23, 1912. Numerous newspapers reported her death.

She had three well-known grandsons: the economist Benedikt Kautsky , the chemist Hans Kautsky and the Austrian theater painter, set and costume designer Robert Kautsky .

Honors

Since 1997 the women's department of the city of Graz has awarded 4 “MINNA KAUTSKY LITERATURE PRIZE”.

Works

  • Eckert: Modern women . In: Voice from Moravia . Brno No. 21 December 8, 1870 and No. 28 December 17, 1870.
  • Madame Roland. Historical drama in five acts . L. Rosner, Vienna 1878. archive.org
  • Stefan from the Grillenhof. Novel . 2 parts in 1 volume. Wilhelm Fink, Leipzig 1881.
    • Steven van den Grillenhof . Hage, Ghent 1883.
    • Stefan from the Grillenhof. Novel . Illustrated by Jos. Damberger . In: In free hours. A weekly journal. Novels and short stories for the working people. Thirteenth year. 2nd half-year volume. Vorwärts bookstore, Berlin 1909,
  • MK: Greif, Martin . Poems. Stuttgart. Cotta . In: The New Time . Review of intellectual and public life . 1st year 1883), no. 11, p. 533.
  • (anonymous): From the electrical exhibition . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 1st year 1883), No. 12, pp. 555-564. [1]
  • MK: The German theater of modern times . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 2nd year (1884).
    • Issue 2, pp. 66-74. FES
    • Volume 3, pp. 107-112. FES
  • Wilhelm Wiener: About Spiritism . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . Volume 2 (1884), No. 6, pp. 272-279. FES
  • Wilhelm Wiener: The bird protection . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . Volume 2 (1884), No. 7, pp. 303-309. FES
  • Wilhelm Wiener: State workers and house industry in the Saltzkammergut . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 3rd year (1885),
    • Issue 1, pp. 22-28. FES
    • Book 2, pp. 74-83. FES
  • Rule and serve? A novel. Free supplement to the Magdeburg Volksstimme. Verlag der Volksstimme, Magdeburg 1899. Austrian National Library
    • Vládnout či sloužit? román . A. Svěcený, V Praze 1920.
  • The old and the new. Novel . 2 volumes. C. Reissner, Leipzig 1885.
  • Wilhelm Wiener: Wassili Wereschagin . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 4. Jg- (1886), Issue 1, pp. 27-36. FES
  • Konrad Deubler . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 4. Jg- (1886), No. 10, pp. 465-474. FES
  • Friedrich Hebbel . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 5th year (1887)
    • Book 5, pp. 193-204. FES
    • Issue 6, pp. 247-255 FES
    • Issue 7, pp. 314-322 FES
  • The parishioner . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 6th vol. (1888), No. 9, pp. 403-416 FES
  • Else Belse. Narration . In: Illustrated New World Calendar , Hamburg 1888.
  • "Snow" by Alexander Kielland, discussed by Minna Kautsky . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 7th vol. (1889), No. 5, pp. 205-216. FES
  • The one-shift in the village. Narration . In: Berliner Volkszeitung . No. 150 of July 24, 1889 to No. 158 of August 2, 1889.
  • In the wilderness . Comedy in one act. 1889 ( Theater am Franzensplatz , Graz)
  • Later. Social study . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 9th year 1890–91, 1st volume. (1891),
    • Issue 1, pp. 29-32 FES
    • Issue 2, pp. 58-64. FES
    • Issue 3, pp. 88-96 FES
    • Issue 4, pp. 122–128 FES .
  • The Paris garden. Novella . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 9th year (1890–91), 2nd volume (1891)
    • Issue 39, pp. 420-424. FES
    • Book 40, p. 452-456. FES
    • Issue 41, pp. 483-488. FES
    • Issue 42, pp. 513-520. FES
    • Issue 43, pp. 546-552. FES
    • Issue 44, pp. 580-584. FES
    • Issue 45, pp. 612-616. FES
    • Issue 46, pp. 641-648. FES
    • Issue 47, pp. 675-680. FES
    • Issue 48, pp. 706-712. FES
  • Little Friedel. Narration . In: The worker . Stuttgart No. 14 of April 4, 1891 ff.
  • She protects herself . Prize game in four acts. 1892. ( Deutsches Volkstheater , Vienna)
  • A proletarian child . Viennese folk piece. 1894 (purchase of the Raimund Theater , Vienna)
  • Helene. Novel in three books . JHW Dietz 1894. Vienna library in the town hall
  • The Eder-Mizzi . Cheerful folk play in four acts. 1894 (Raimundtheater, Vienna)
  • The one-shift in the village . Novella. 1895.
  • Mary Magdalene. Fragment from “Hebbel's Frauengestalten”; Lecture given on April 20 at the General Austrian Women's Association . In: The right of women . General Austrian Women's Association (Ed.) No. 169, 1895, pp. 7–8. ÖNB
  • The cardinal's diamonds. Narration . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 15th year (1896–97), 2nd volume (1897)
    • Issue 30, pp. 125-128. FES
    • Issue 31, pp. 156-160. FES
    • Issue 32, pp. 88-192. FES
    • Issue 33, pp. 222-224. FES
    • Issue 34, pp. 252-256. FES
    • Issue 35, pp. 284-288. FES
    • Issue 36, pp. 317-320. FES
    • Issue 37, pp. 350-352. FES
    • Brilanty kardinála. Povídka . Dělnické knihtiskárny a nakl., Prague 1907.
  • Victoria. Social novel in two books . Verlag magazine, Zurich 1899. (2nd edition JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1900.)
    • Viktorie. Rome. o 2 knihách . Právo lidu, Prague 1903.
  • In the father's house. Social novel. Franconian Publishing House, Nuremberg 1904.
  • A May day. In: Illustrated New World Calendar 1907.
  • The people of St. Boniface . Novel. Franconian publishing house, Nuremberg, 1914. (= Minna Kautsky's collected writings. In the father's house. Social novel. The people of St. Bonifaz. Volume 2)
  • Autobiographical sketch . In: In free hours. A weekly journal. Novels and stories for the working people Forward, Berlin 13th year 1909. 2, half-year volume, p. 23-24.
  • Elise Schweichel [on her 80th birthday]. 1911. Printed in: Ursula Herrmann: E lise Schweichel (1831–1912). Writer and social democrat in the struggle for women's emancipation . trafo verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 978-3-89626-397-1 , p. 127.
  • The Paris garden and others . Vorwärts bookstore (Paul Singer), Berlin 1913.

Factory editions

  • Minna Kautsky's Collected Writings , 2 vols. Fränkische Verlagsanstalt, Nuremberg 1914.
    • First series. Volume 1. Rule and Serve
    • First series. Volume 2. In the father's house . The people of St. Boniface
  • Cäcilia Friedrich (Ed.): Minna Kautsky. Selection from her work . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965. (= text editions on early socialist literature in Germany . Volume 4)

literature

  • J. Zadek : "The old and the new" by M. Kautsky. In: The New Time . Review of intellectual and public life. 2nd year 1884, issue 12, pp. 538-544. FES
  • Viktoria, novel in two volumes by Minna Kautsky. Zurich 1889 (publisher's magazine) . In: The New Time. Review of intellectual and public life . 7th vol. (1889), No. 5, pp. 235-236. FES
  • Sophie Pataky : Kautsky, Mrs. Minna . In: same: Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Berlin, 1898., pp. 414-415. zeno.org
  • Franz Mehring : Minna Kautsky . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . No. 131 of June 10, 1907. (Printed in: Franz Mehring. Collected writings Volume 11. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 442.)
  • Marie Kunert : Minna Kautsky . In: Equality . No. 12. 1907.
  • Hans Hirschstein: Marie vin Ebner-Eschenbach, Minna Kautsky . In: the same. The French Revolution in German Drama and Epic after 1815 . JB Metzlersche Buchhandlung., Stuttgart 1912, pp. 174-184.
  • Franz Mehring: Minna Kautsky . In: The New Time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 31 Volume 1912/1913, Volume 1 (1913), Issue 13, pp. 457-458. FES
  • Minna Kautsky . In: Der Wahre Jacob , No. 691, January 11, 1913, p. 7778. Digitized
  • Adelheid Popp : Minna Kautsky . In: The fight. Social Democratic Monthly , Volume 6. Verlag Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1913, pp. 235 ff.
  • Clara Zetkin : Minna Kautsky . In: The Equality , No. 8. 1913.
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 3. 6th edition Reclam, Leipzig, 1913 pp. 423-424. German Text Archive (DTA)
  • Benedikt Kautsky (ed.): Friedrich Engels correspondence with Karl Kautsky. Second edition of "From the early days of Marxism", completed by Karl Kautsky's letters. Danubia-Verlag, Vienna 1955, p. 31, p. 44, pp. 185-186, pp. 186-189.
  • [Helga Herting]: Kautsky, Minna . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning to 1945. Monographic-biographical presentations . Leipzig 1963, pp. 278-280.
  • Cäcilie Friedrich: Minna Kautskys contribution to the genesis of socialist German literature . Halle 1963 (Halle, Phil. F., dissertation from July 10, 1963)
  • Cäcilie Friedrich: Minna Kautsky's development into a working class writer . In: Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Social and Linguistic Series 12 (1963), pp. 1035-1045.
  • Wolfgang Emmerich :  Kautsky, Minna, nee Jaich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 375 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ingrid Cella: The comrades called her the “red Marlitt”: Minna Kautsky and the problematic of the social novel, illustrated by “The old and the new” . In: Austria in history and literature . Ed. Institut für Österreichkunde, 1981, p. 16 -. * Kautsky, Minna (Ps. Eckert, Wilhelm Wiener) . In. Gisela Brinker-Gabler , Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen (eds.): Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945 . dtv, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-03282-0 , pp. 155-156.
  • Christa Pimingstorfer: Between work and love. Minna Kautsky and Lou Andreas-Salomé in comparison . In: Difficult conditions: love and sexuality in women's literature around 1900 ed. by Theresia Klugsberger. Heinz, Stuttgart 1992, pp. 43-56. ISBN 3880992665
  • Stefan Riesenfellner and Ingrid Spörk (eds.): Minna Kautsky. Contributions to the literary work . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1996. ISBN 3-85115-205-0 . contents
  • Lilo Weber: "Flies and Tremors". Hysteria in texts by Theodor Fontane , Hedwig Dohm , Gabriele Reuter and Minna Kautsky. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 1996. ISBN 3-89528-152-2 (University of Zurich, dissertation 1993)
  • Heidy Margrit Müller: Social Criticism and Hope for the Future. Minna Kautsky . In: German-speaking authors of the fin de siècle Wisssenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1999, pp. 19–215.
  • Werner Michler: Between Minna Kautsky and Hermann Bahr . Literary intelligentsia and the Austrian labor movement before Hainfeld (1889) . In: Klaus Amann , Hubert Lengauer and Wagner Karl (eds.): Literary life in Austria 1848–1890 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3205990285 . Pp. 94-137.
  • Charlotte Woodford: Political Literature and Pacifism. Minna Kautsky's Stefan vom Grillenhof and Bertha von Suttner ’s Down your arms! . In: Same: Women, emancipation and the German novel 1871-1910: protest fiction in its cultural context . Legenda, London 2014. ISBN 978-1-909662-26-1
  • Marianne Baumgartner : The Association of Women Writers and Artists in Vienna (1885–1938) . Cologne, Böhlau 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79702-9 , esp. Pp. 278–292. contents

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Minna Kautsky (IISG BG A7 / 411)
  2. ↑ Karl Kautsky papers 1999a marriage certificate of Johann and Minna Kautsky (maid 1854).
  3. ^ Karl, Minna (* 1856), Fritz (* 1857) and Hans (1864–1937) (Cäcilia Friedrich, p. 153.)
  4. ^ Karl Kautsky papers 2041 Report by Minna Kautsky on her visit to London, 1885.
  5. ^ Literature trip to St Gilgen - In the footsteps of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
  6. ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, 1903 (Sic!), Column 666.
  7. ↑ Kotte Autographs GmbH, Rosshaupten
  8. ^ Letter from Minna Kautsky of August 21, 1904 to a publisher: "Dear Sir! Please allow me to contact you with a request. My social novel, which the Berliner Vorwärts and the Hamburger Echo bought for the first time, has just been completed in these pages. It deals with a part of the women's question in its broad context, which affects all classes, and has met with an extremely favorable, in part enthusiastic reception. A Russian and an Italian translation are in preparation. I am now looking for a publisher for the book edition. Mr. H. Dietz , who published my last novels, has no actual novel publisher and is currently fully occupied with the publication of larger scientific works, so he will also have the idea, which he had so fondly cherished, that of a cheap popular edition of all of my novels in Staple, no longer execute. But for the time being it is only about the publication of the Viennese novel "Im Vatershaus", and for this your publishing house, which is so active, was particularly recommended to me. Indeed, he seems to have set himself a great and grateful task. He sees what is new and worth reading not only in the presentation of sexual problems; he has recognized that in a time of growing social knowledge, the process of development of society, which is advancing inexorably, takes up the greatest interest; success has not failed to materialize. May he stay true to you! I live in a circle in which researching social problems is a life's work and you will certainly not miss the treatment and characteristics of my novel truth and accuracy. I will send the same to you at the same time. He'll speak best for himself. I will be in St. Gilgen near Salzburg until mid-September and in Friedenau near Berlin Ringstrasse 17 from September 20 onwards. I would be delighted if you could find a reason to get closer to my work […] ”(Antiquariat Inlibris, Vienna am August 20, 2020)
  9. ^ Berlin address book 1906 edition
  10. ^ Berlin address book edition 1911
  11. ^ Karl Kautsky papers 2042 documents concerning Minna Kautsky's death in 1912. 1912–1913.
  12. ^ Karl Kautsky papers 2046 newspaper clippings on the death of Minna Kautsky. 1912-1913.
  13. ^ First printing in Die Neue Welt , 6th year, Leipzig 1881 as Die Schwestern und Herrschen und Dienen
  14. ^ The library of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Annotated directory of the determined inventory . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1999, No. 664, p. 370 (= Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) IV. Department. Volume 32). The dedication read: “Friedrich Engels with warm affection and admiration - Minna Kautsky. May my work appeal to you in any way and please, it would then appear to me to be clarified ”(Cäcilia Friedrich, p. XII.)
  15. ↑ Review to: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Das Gemeindekind. Narration . 2 baths, published by Gebrüder Paetel, Berlin 1887.
  16. ↑ snow. Novel by Alexander L. Kielland. Authorized translation from Norwegian by Mary Ottesen . Engelshorn, Stuttgart 1889.
  17. ↑ Manuscript in the Vienna City Library.
  18. ^ Theater censorship. The text books and censorship files of The text books and censorship files of the (kk) n. Ö. Lieutenancy 1870–1926 in the Lower Austrian State Archives
  19. ↑ Printed in Cäcilia Friedrich, pp. 123–154.
  20. ↑ Contents: The monastery in the lagoons (first published in the Austrian workers' calendar , Vienna 1899); Poldi, the carpenter (first in 1897 in the Austrian workers' calendar , Vienna 1897); The Paris Garden (first printed in the Neue Zeit 1891.
  21. ↑ Bibliography p. 163 ff.
  22. ^ Letter from Louis Viereck to Minna Kautsky of January 25, 1881.
  23. ^ Letter from Karl Marx to Minna Kautsky dated October 1, 1881.
  24. ^ Letter from Minna Kautsky to Friedrich Engels dated October 15, 1885.
  25. ^ Letter from Friedrich Engels to Minna Kautsky dated November 26, 1885.
personal data
SURNAME Kautsky, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckert (pseudonym); Jaich, Wilhelmine (maiden name); Kautsky, Wilhelmine; Wiener, Wilhelm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1912
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde