Charlotte Niese

Charlotte Niese ( born June 7, 1854 in Burg auf Fehmarn, Holstein, † December 8, 1935 in Altona / Elbe) was a German writer, poet and teacher home.

Life

Charlotte Niese was born as the daughter of Emil August Niese, pastor in the then Danish Burg on Fehmarn and later seminar director in Eckernförde. Her mother Marie Benedicte Niese was born Matthiessen. Charlotte was in Eckernförde the exam to become a teacher at secondary schools daughters and taught as a private tutor since 1866 in the Prussian province of Schleswig -Holstein, in the Rhine province, as well as a boarding school teacher in Montreux. Then she moved to her now widowed mother to Plön (1873-1876) and began publishing his own prose, initially under the male pseudonym Lucian citizens.

In 1884 she settled in the big city Altona down, where maternal relatives lived, in 1888, she moved to Ottensen, which was founded in 1889 Altona district. As a teacher, she did not need to work, because Charlotte Niese was one of the famous Holstein native writers.

She was involved not only in their literary oeuvre for the improvement of educational and professional opportunities for women, but was sometimes also the local chapter of the Association of North German Women's Associations in her adopted home of Altona ago. But although she had learned as a child, as her six brothers ( the historian Benedict Niese was one of them) all received a higher education and scientific careers smashing, while the father to her and her sister this - the spirit of the time corresponding to - refused, described Niese ultimately only the social boundaries of women. Actively to overcome them to use, as it has done only a few minutes walk away living social democratic women's rights activist Alma Wartenberg at the same time, would not have met their bourgeois- conservative world - image and role. Your " most political " public opinion was the signing of a written protest against the establishment of a tramway through their residential street ( 1904).

Charlotte Niese died in 1935 in her longtime " poets home on Philosophers " and was buried in the adjacent cemetery in Altona Ottensen.

Literary classification

Categorize your work as a girl novels, handles too short, even though they increasingly found their way into textbooks in the first quarter of the 20th century. Preferred subjects her oeuvre were detailed, highly romanticized and often designed as a historical travelogue events, such as the fate of noble emigrants to the person of the Comtesse de Genlis in Altona after the French Revolution or the encounter of the Swedish Countess Sibylle Cederström with her ​​compatriot, Count Stenbock, as this Nordic in the second war can burn 1713 Altona. In addition, however, they also dealt repeatedly with Low German legendary figures ( hobgoblin ) and the marine environment of their living environment (eg via the Fischer boys Fiete from Oevelgönne ).

The city archivist Paul Theodor Hoffmann describes her narrative technique as " the perseverance with which she portrays less than that they can experience the environment vividly the people " and their style as " born of casual indulgence, gentle irony and kind -heartedness ."

Overall, Charlotte Niese wrote 60 novels and short story collections.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Caius Rungholt ( published under a pseudonym )
  • Light and Shadow (1895 )
  • Past - story of the emigrant time (1902 )
  • The Klabunkerstraße. Roman ( 1904)
  • City in which I live (1908 )
  • Minette of Söhlenthal (1909 )
  • All kinds of fates
  • When the moon in Dorothea's room appeared (1917 )
  • From Danish time ( paintings and sketches, memories of childhood in the castle )
  • From heavy days
  • The camp child ( History of the German War, published 1914)
  • The Crazy Flinsheim and Two Other Short Stories (1914 )
  • Barbarians daughters ( A story from the time of the World War, published 1915)
  • The Diary of Ottony cup of mountain
  • The youngest of
  • The Witch of Mayen
  • He and She
  • Stories from Holstein ( 1896)
  • Nesthäkchen Gretel - One of the Last
  • Maturation period
  • Travel time
  • Of those who stayed at home, the (1915 )
  • What told Mahlmann
  • Philipp Reiffs fates and Other Stories ( 1918 )
  • At that time! Roman ( 1919)
  • What Michel Schneidewind experienced as a boy
  • From cavalier and his niece (1919)
  • From yesterday and the day before yesterday - Memoirs (1924 )
  • The journey of the Countess Sibylle (1926 )
  • Castle Emkendorf (1928 )
  • Under the yoke of the Corsican - folk play in 5 lifts
  • On the Garden Path, A History of wise and foolish people

In addition, several publications in the illustrated family magazine published the gazebo. Part of her novels and short stories has also been translated into Flemish, among others.

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