Grossstadtmädel : Jugendgeschichten

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Description

The writer born in Alexandria (1859-1941) lived in Weimar and Munich, where she joined the Verein für geistige Interessen der Frau in 1896 and served on the board until 1898. She was one of the most popular female authors of her time and was considered a "poet of the female soul" because of her fine psychologisation. Her widely read novel "Aus guter Familie" (1895) depicts the tale of the suffering of a higher daughter of the Wilhelminian era, who failed in the typical middle-class concept of the woman as a "virgin, wife and mother". Gabriele Reuter also wrote best sellers such as the novels "Der Amerikaner" (The American – 1907) or "Das Tränenhaus" (1908, cf. 38.1110). The single mother of a daughter worked as a reviewer for the New York Times. The "Großstadtmädel" adolescent stories published in 1920 are dedicated to Reuter's "daughter Lili and her girl friends"; the character Nelly's adolescence and her life with her writer mother Leonore Lambert are based on her life together with her daughter. Nelly grows up with her single mother in a loving and tolerant atmosphere in which her talents and personality are taken more seriously than rigid educational norms. The stories are titled 'Nellys Freundschaften' (Nelly's Friendships), 'Die aufregende Kusine' (The Exciting Cousin) and 'Die Vögel lernen fliegen' (The Birds Learn to Fly). Datum: 2019

Author

Peter Czoik

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