Marie Olfers
Illustration — Marie von Olfers Marie von Olfers (27 October 1826, Berlin – 8 January 1924, Berlin) was a German noblewoman, writer, illustrator and salonnière. She wrote under the pseudonym M(aria) Werner, Werner Maria.
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Marie Olfers
Heinrich Groß: Deutsche Dichterinen und Schriftstellerinen in Wort Bild, Band II. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, S. 258. · Public domain
- Born
- 1826 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1924 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- illustrator · writer · salonnière
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Marie von Olfers Marie von Olfers (27 October 1826, Berlin – 8 January 1924, Berlin) was a German noblewoman, writer, illustrator and salonnière. She wrote under the pseudonym M(aria) Werner, Werner Maria.
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Born into the noble Olfers family, she was the second daughter of the Ignaz von Olfers, a museum director, and his wife, Hedwig von Staegemann (1799-1871), herself a writer. She also had a major artistic influence on her niece.
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• Drei Märchen. Zum Besten einer armen Waise (1862) • Herr Mops. Ein Mährchen (1863) • Frau Evchen. Eine sehr alltägliche Historie (1865) • Novellen (1872) • Eigenthum (Novelle, in: Deutsche Rundschau, 1. Jg. Bd. 2, 1875) • Neue Novellen (1876) • Nathanael (1880) • Zeichen- und Mal-Fibel (1882) • Der Sohn des Herzens (1882) • Vielliebchen. Ein Blumenmärchen (1882) • Ragenhart und Swanhild. Ein Harzepos aus dem achten Jahrhundert in 12 Gesängen (1883) • Simplizitas (Episches Gedicht, 1884) • Die Vernunftheirath und andere Novellen (1887) • Backfische und Alte Jungfern (Novellen, 1897) • Zwei Novellen. Jeremias und die schöne Vincenzia, Frau Evchen (1907) • Maximiliane Gräfin von Oriola, geb. von Arnim. Eine Jugenderinnerung (in: Illustrierte Frauen-Zeitung, 22. Jg., Heft 4) • Briefe und Tagebücher, hrsg. v. Margarete von Olfers (1928–1930) • Band 1: 1826–1870 • Band 2: 1870–1924 • Rosenwölkchen (Roskow, 9 September)
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