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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". The philologist Georg Scherer (1824-1909), born in Dennenlohe, was awarded a doctorate in 1857 in Tübingen, Germany. He qualified to lecture in the history of literature and art in Stuttgart in 1864. In 1875 he became a professor and librarian. Scherer lived as a freelance writer in Munich from 1881. His collections of folk and children's songs are of importance. Scherer published his "Alte und neue Kinderlieder, Fabeln, Sprüche und Räthsel" for the later Bavarian King Ludwig II (1845-1886) in 1849. The 16 letters written to him by Maria Janitschek (1859-1927) contain among other things a poem by Maria Janitschek under the title "Die Gnade" (Grace): "A grace walks among us,/ It walks quietly meeting only a few,/ Anyone it appears to becomes a child of God." (May 1901) The poetess asks Scherer to choose the better version of her modified first two lines. Datum: 2019
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Peter Czoik