Nataly von Eschstruth

Nataly (Natalie ) Auguste Karline Amalie Hermione from Eschstruth ( married name: Nataly from Knobelsdorffstraße - Brenkenhoff ) ( born May 17, 1860 in Hofgeismar, Electorate of Hesse, † December 1, 1939 in Schwerin, Mecklenburg ) was a German writer and one of the most popular storytellers the Wilhelmine era. She describes in her novels entertainment in the form of catchy especially the life of courtly society as they knew from their own experience.

Life

She came from a Hessian family and was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Major Hermann von Eschstruth (1829-1900) and the Amalie Baroness Schenck to pig Berg ( 1836-1914 ). She grew initially in Hofgeismar, then in Merseburg and in Berlin, where first of her poems were published.

1875 underwent training in a girls' boarding school in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and later toured the major European capitals. As a result of the illness of her mother she led since 1885 together with her sister the parental household.

On February 23, 1890, she married in Berlin, the Royal Prussian Major in the Infantry Regiment No. 113 Francis of Knobelsdorffstraße - Brenkenhoff ( born September 1, 1857 in Nakel in Bromberg, West Prussia, † June 27, 1903 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden- Württemberg), the son of the landowner and royal Prussian. Lieutenant Colonel Cunibert of Knobelsdorffstraße - Brenkenhoff (1827-1896), lord of the manor on small Sabow to Pommern ( Pomerania ), and Ida Hartwig called Naso ( 1837-1925 ). With her husband, she lived in various garrison towns, most recently in Schwerin. After the death of her husband in 1903 she moved to Teplitz, in 1933, she lived in the Mozart Street in Schwerin.

The Hessian Hofgerichtsrat, music writer and composer Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth is a great-great uncle.

In her native town, named after her Eschstruth course and various exhibits remind the City Museum Hofgeismar to their work.

Awards

  • Medals for Merit of the states of Baden, Bavaria and Mecklenburg -Schwerin

Work

From Eschstruth woman wrote novels set in the layer of Wilhelmine nobility or high court officials and told there fictional, biographical stories. These run almost without exception, over several generations, which gives them a narrative depth. For example, Polish blood starts from 1887 with a detailed description of the circumstances and experiences of their parents' generation, which produces a child living in this environment. This child will then grow up in a later part of the book and the main character, so that a distinct break and a local, motivic and also the zeitgeist forth new narrative approach follows.

At the same time the actions and influences are always created in the parent generation. The stories therefore do not live by the narrative of emancipation of the children generation, but they serve educational goals by reporting errors of a generation of children who do not want to repeat the reader. So true, for example, in The Bear of Hohen- Esp 1902 the fears of the father in terms of the prospective husband, or the children follow the prejudice that the parents long unsuccessful fight: Sun revolves the story in Polish blood to a daughter who despises Poland, and the Bears of Hohen- Esp to a daughter, keeps fit to the Sea Saver none heroism against the soldiers. In both novels the daughters lay only in the last fifth of the plot by an experience from their prejudice and thus find the same to her love. The maturation process, which was introduced with a didactic purpose by Esch Truth is, therefore rewarded by the love found. This illustrates that in Esch Truths novels there is no emancipatory claim within the meaning of the Enlightenment. That educational backgrounds often determine the action, can be detected on the book The Bears of Hohen- Esp, who wrote of Eschstruth at the request of William II, as it wanted to know publicized the need for sea rescue.

These motives of the author can be summarized so that they have a return to the " traditional values ​​of the nobility " propagated in her work as a whole. These were values ​​such as wisdom, freedom from prejudice and helpfulness, but also strength in the pursuit of recognized as correct targets. She wanted to embed these values ​​again in the younger generation and so far had a restorative impetus, as they in the outgoing German monarchy thus affirmed the leadership of the nobility against the bourgeoisie.

From Esch Truths work can from the literary point of view are not considered as significant as clichéd courses of action are available, such as the " marriage made ​​in heaven " by early encounters between a female and a male hero, often in childhood, at the end of the book inevitably lead to unification. Even the characters are seldom sharp, they follow a number of typical habits, but are not clear as a personality with internal contradictions of character and diversity. This is often at the bewildering variety of people, with those of Eschstruth populated her books. She always chooses to order a clear chronological sequence. However reached Esch Truths books in comparison with other contemporary popular fiction, like that of Wilhelmine Heimburg, a certain level. Due to its complexity and the very well drawn characters hazard may 1888 are considered literary comparatively remarkable inferior quality if its non-uniformity is court atmosphere of 1889.

Even at the age of Eschstruth wrote and recorded the latest topics, so in longing of 1917 the subject of aviation pioneer who eventually to military heroism. Your well -dominated field as an author whose heroes move in Wilhelmine nobility, but they had left it, and now seemed rather hard.

The environment of the novels of their main creative period in the 1880s and 1890s provides today an impression of everyday and historical details, from the entertainment value have not lost any of Esch Truths books. Her book The Illusive 1888 therefore appeared in the Lichtenberg- publishing again in 1975, came in 1977 by Heyne Verlag out in paperback.

Works

  • The little captain, Berlin 1883
  • Pirmasenz or Karl August Brautfahrt, Berlin 1883
  • The Ordre of the Count of Guise, Berlin 1884
  • Wolfsburg, Stuttgart 1885
  • The Irrgeist of the castle, Berlin 1886
  • Gänseliesel, Jena 1886
  • Humoresken, Berlin 1886
  • Cat and mouse, Berlin 1886 ( digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • Polish blood, Jena 1887
  • Potpourri, Dresden 1887
  • Ways herb, Dresden 1887
  • The Illusive. Magic water, Jena 1888
  • Hazard, Jena 1888
  • Change images, Jena 1888
  • Court atmosphere, Berlin 1889
  • Forbidden fruit and other stories, Jena 1889
  • In Schell shirt, Jena 1890
  • Shooting stars, Berlin 1890
  • The mill Prince, Jena 1891
  • Comedy! , Jena 1892
  • Shards, Leipzig 1893
  • The heath Witch and other stories, Jena 1894
  • In disgrace, Leipzig 1894
  • Equal to!, Jena 1894
  • By God's grace, Jena 1894
  • Bonfires, Leipzig 1895
  • Sturmnixe and other dramas, Leipzig 1895
  • The star of happiness, Leipzig 1896
  • Young suitor, Leipzig 1897
  • Spooky, Leipzig 1897
  • The Heir, Leipzig 1898
  • Mondscheinprinzeßchen, Leipzig 1898
  • The unrecognized Puttfarken, Berlin 1899
  • The regiment aunt, Leipzig 1899
  • Spring storms, Leipzig 1899
  • From full life, Leipzig 1900
  • Nightshade, Leipzig 1900
  • Ghost stories and other tales, Leipzig 1900
  • At the destination, Leipzig 1901
  • Daffodils, Berlin 1901
  • Rainy weather, Berlin 1901
  • Sun sparks, Leipzig 1901
  • The Prodigal Son, Leipzig 1902
  • The Bears of Hohen- Esp, Leipzig 1902
  • Inexplicable, Berlin 1902
  • Lakeside, Leipzig 1903
  • The mood of the Countess, Wolfenbüttel, 1904
  • To each his own, Leipzig 1904
  • At the end of the world, Leipzig 1905
  • Peace, Leipzig 1905
  • The Ordre of the Count of Guise. Symone, Leipzig 1910
  • The Roggenmuhme, Leipzig 1910
  • The juggler, Berlin 1911
  • Vae Victis, Schwerin 1911
  • The Rodeltantchen, Schwerin 1912
  • An eerie cake and other stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Wild roses and other stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Young Love and Other Stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Page pranks and other stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Plappermäulchen and other stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Magic water and other stories, Leipzig 1913
  • Longing, Leipzig 1917
  • Groom and bride, Leipzig 1920
  • Eternal youth, Leipzig 1920
  • A stone on the road, Leipzig 1921
  • End well - all good, Leipzig 1921
  • In the haunted castle Monbijou, Leipzig 1921
  • Living flowers, Leipzig 1921
  • Halali! , Leipzig 1922
  • Light moths, Leipzig 1922
  • The Flying Dutchman, Leipzig 1925
  • Redeemed, Leipzig 1926
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