biography
pronunciation:
[boelow]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1856–1940)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Weimar, C Germany. She followed a Russian doctor to Turkey, marrying him in 1886 (he had previously converted from Judaism to Islam), but following his death in 1910 she returned to Germany and settled in Bavaria. Her early works were light depictions of teenage life in Goethe's Weimar, but later she came under the influence of Naturalism, producing realistic social novels that championed the cause of female emancipation, notably Der Rangierbahnhof (1895). Other novels include Halbtier (1899), Das Haus zur Flamm (1907), Die leichtsinnige Eheliebste (1925), and Die drei Herrinnen (1937), and she also wrote novellas and short stories. |
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