Marie von Olfers
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Marie von Olfers (27 October 1826, Berlin – 8 January 1924, Berlin) was a German noblewoman, writer, illustrator and salonnière. She wrote under the pseudonym M(aria) Werner, Werner Maria.
Biography
[edit]Born into the noble Olfers family, she was the second daughter of the Ignaz von Olfers, a museum director, and his wife, Hedwig von Staegemann (1799-1871), herself a writer.[1] She also had a major artistic influence on her niece .
Works
[edit]- Drei Märchen. Zum Besten einer armen Waise (1862)
- Herr Mops. Ein Mährchen (1863)
- Frau Evchen. Eine sehr alltägliche Historie (1865)
- Novellen (1872)
- Eigenthum (Novelle, in: Deutsche Rundschau, 1. Jg. Bd. 2, 1875)
- Neue Novellen (1876)
- Nathanael (1880)
- Zeichen- und Mal-Fibel (1882)
- Der Sohn des Herzens (1882)
- Vielliebchen. Ein Blumenmärchen (1882)
- Ragenhart und Swanhild. Ein Harzepos aus dem achten Jahrhundert in 12 Gesängen (1883)
- Simplizitas (Episches Gedicht, 1884)
- Die Vernunftheirath und andere Novellen (1887)
- Backfische und Alte Jungfern (Novellen, 1897)
- Zwei Novellen. Jeremias und die schöne Vincenzia, Frau Evchen (1907)
- Maximiliane Gräfin von Oriola, geb. von Arnim. Eine Jugenderinnerung (in: Illustrierte Frauen-Zeitung, 22. Jg., Heft 4)
- Briefe und Tagebücher, hrsg. v. Margarete von Olfers (1928–1930)
- Band 1: 1826–1870
- Band 2: 1870–1924
- Rosenwölkchen (Roskow, 9 September)
Bibliography
[edit]- Heinrich Groß: Deutsche Dichterinen und Schriftstellerinen in Wort & Bild: Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, S. 258ff.
- Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: Die Berliner Salons: Mit historisch-literarischen Spaziergängen. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016414-0.
External links
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- Literature by and about Marie von Olfers in the German National Library catalogue
- Grave of Marie von Olfers
- Manuscripts and letters by Marie von Olfers in libraries and archives
References
[edit]- ^ Jarvis, Shawn C.; Blackwell, Jeannine, eds. (2001). The queen's mirror: fairy tales by German women, 1780-1900. European women writers series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1299-2.
Categories:
- German women novelists
- German illustrators
- German salon-holders
- Writers from Berlin
- 1826 births
- 1924 deaths
- Novelists from the Kingdom of Prussia
- Artists from the Kingdom of Prussia
- 19th-century German writers
- 20th-century German writers
- 19th-century German women writers
- 20th-century German women writers
- 20th-century German women