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The autor Maria Janitschek (1859-1927), born in Vienna, provoked violent reactions among the empire's patriarchal society thoug but wasn't a member of a women's movement association. Her novel "Amazonenschlacht" (1897) can be read as a parody of particularly committed women's rights activists. She already moved to Munich before 1902, where she was celebrated in the literary salon of Carry Brachvogel (1864-1942) as a "hot-blooded beautiful erotic". Paul Heyse (1830-1914, Heyse Archive V.105) became famous as the author of over 150 novels, organiser of the literary scene, fighter for his guild's rights and mediator between Germany and Italy. Heyse was one of the founding members of the Munich poets' society "Die Krokodile" (1857-1883) and sought to draw the general public's attention to some not yet established authors. This letter by Maria Janitschek (1859-1927) contains a thank you to the poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature Paul Heyse (1830-1914, Heyse Archive V.105) and a reference to Janitschek's most recent Albigensian novel "Esclarmonde": "When I wrote my little book, nothing was further from my mind than writing a historical novel. I love the twelfth and thirteenth centuries so much and I am particularly interested in that movement in them both which belongs more to the field of religious history than to that of poetry." Datum: 2019
Author
Peter Czoik