Die Nann

Description

Anna Croissant-Rust (1860-1943) was born as the youngest of six children in Bad Dürkheim in Bavaria's Palatinate region. She grew up in Amberg and lived in Munich and Ludwigshafen for many years. She was the first and only woman to become a member of the "Gesellschaft für modernes Leben" founded by Michael Georg Conrad (1846-1927) in 1890. While her early work seems to have been very much influenced by the Naturalists, her late work is characterised by a particular stylistic development, ranging from the Art Nouveau at the turn of the century to pre-expressionist approaches. Her illustrated dance of death of 17 pictures "Der Tod" , published in 1914, marks this transition. Croissant-Rust made her literary début in 1890 with the Munich workers' novella "Feierabend" and the "Lebensstücke" novella and sketchbook. Poems, novellas and plays followed. During her time in Munich she also published the folk novel "Die Nann" (1906), among others. In it she tells of the hardship of mountain farming around 1900: "Kuchler-Anderl has just buried his second wife. Romanic Marietta from Italy had left him her little daughter, Nann. But the father doesn't believe that the 'blonde brat', who doesn't even fit into the small Tyrolean mountain village, is his child and he makes sure the little one knows this too." (Publisher Lindhardt og Ringhof) Datum: 2019