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German writer, illustrator and salonnière (1826–1924)

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Marie von Olfers

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

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. She also had a major artistic influence on her niece .

Works

  • 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

  • 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

References

  1. 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.
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