Clara Bertha Friederike von Bülow (known as Babette von Bülow;

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, Hans Arnold; 30 September 1850 – 8 March 1927) was a German writer of short stories, comedies and farces.

Biography

Clara Bertha Friederike Eberty was born in

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, 30 September 1850. She was the daughter of the lawyer, writer and amateur astronomer, Felix Eberty, professor at the

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and Mary Hasse. She grew up in Breslau where she studied in a French school and married Lieutenant Colonel Adolf

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on 10 June 1876. The military career of her husband led them to live in different garrisons such as

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in 1893,

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in 1896,

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in 1900,

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in 1902 and again from 1905 in Erfurt. She personally knew

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. She died in Arendsee,

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in 1927.

Selected works

* ''Novellen'' (1881) * ''Neue Novellen'' (1884) * ''Geburtstagsfreuden'' (1884) * ''Fünf neue Novellen'' (1885) * ''Berlin-Ostende mit zehntägigem Retourbillet'' (1886) * ''Ein neues Novellenbuch'' (1886) * ''Der Umzug und andere Novellen'' (1889) * ''Theorie und Praxis'' (Lustspiel, 1890) * ''Lustige Geschichten'' (1890) * ''Zwei Friedfertige'' (Schwank, 1891) * ''Einst im Mai! und andere Novellen'' (1892) * ''Dornen um die Rose'' (1893) * ''Sonnenstäubchen. Neue Novellen'' (1894) * ''Theorie und Praxis'' (Lustspiel, 1895) * ''Aus alten und neuen Tagen'' (1896) * ''Maskiert und andere Novellen'' (1898) * ''Christel und andere Novellen'' (1899) * ''Zwei Affen und andere Novellen'' (1902) * ''Perücke? Neue Novellen'' (1904) * ''Herbstsonne. Neue Novellen'' (1907) * ''Vom „Drachenfels“ des Lebens. Beobachtungen und Betrachtungen'' (1907) * ''Ausgewählte Novellen'' (1907) * ''Aus der Kinderzeit. Erinnerungen'' (1909)

Sources

* Fritz Abshoff: ''Bildende Geister''. Band 1. Oestergaard, Berlin 1905, S. 20. * Franz Brümmer: ''Lexikon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart''. Reclam, Leipzig 1913, S. 377. * (Erwähnung im Familienartikel) *

Walther Killy Walther Killy (26 August 191728 December 1995) was a German literary scholar who specialised in poetry, especially that of Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He taught at the Free University of Berlin, the Georg-August-Universität Göttinge ...

, Hans Fromm: ''Literatur-Lexikon. Autoren und Werke deutscher Sprache''. Bertelsmann Lexikon, München 1988, , S. 293. * Gisela Brinker-Gabler: ''Deutsche Literatur von Frauen''. Verlag C.H. Beck, München 1988, , S. 160. * Susanne Kord: ''Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen. Deutschsprachige Dramatikerinnen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert''. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, S. 345.

External links

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