Emerenz Meier (October 3, 1874 – February 28, 1928) was a German writer. She is most known for her work in Bavarian folk poetry.

Biography

Emerenz Meier was the daughter of Emerenz Meier, née Raab, and the farmer, livestock dealer and innkeeper Josef Meier in Schiefweg at Waldkirchen,

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. She started to write about her ''Heimat'' (homeland) as a child. In 1893, her first newspaper short story was published in Passau. In the autumn of 1896, her first and only book, ''From the Bavarian Forest'', was released in the East Prussian Königsberg. Because of the poor economic situation parts of the family emigrated to North America. In March 1906 Emerenz Meier followed her father and her sisters to Chicago. The expected personal economic upturn, however, did not occur. The First World War intensified her criticism of the political, economic and social conditions in Europe and America. Emerenz Meier died on February 28, 1928 in Chicago at the age of 53 years of complications from nephritis.

Work

Her stories and poems were published in magazines such as ''

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Fliegende Blätter The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Co ...

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Film

Her life is dramatised in the 1991 Anica Dobra film '.

References

* Hampp, Bernhard (2018). ''Born in Schiefweg ; Emerenz-Meier-Haus in Waldkirchen-Schiefweg'', in Bernhard Hampp, ''Bayern erlesen! Für Literaturfreunde und Bibliophile''. Messkirch: Gmeiner Verlag. . pp. 104–107. * Peinkofer, Max (2005). ''"Mein Wald - mein Leben" Lebensbild der Dichterin Emerenz Meier''. Grafenau: Samples Verlag . .

External links

The emigration museum "Born in Schiefweg"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meier, Emerenz 1874 births 1928 deaths 19th-century German novelists German women novelists Women dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German women writers People from Freyung-Grafenau