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Hardcover
This book constitutes a newly edited, expanded edition of a publication first released in 1925, including previously unpublished manuscripts and numerous family photographs, some of them over 130 years old. The book is meant to honor the once very popular Westphalian regional poet on the occasion of her 150th birthday and to once again make her complete literary works, including the formerly published prose, accessible to a broad public. The volume comprises three autobiographical books, a book of poems and a fifth part including comments, letters and reports. The author, born in Wehdem, Lkr. Minden-Lübbecke [30.09.1850-14.01.1939], was the eldest daughter of the doctor Heinrich August Friedrich Brosin [1817-1883] from Ilfeld in the Harz mountains and Agnes Weidner [1824-1858] from Münster. The father settled as a “first class surgeon” in Wehdem in 1845 and married in May 1847. Marie Brosin and her two sisters lost their mother in 1858 after the birth of their brother Friedrich, called Fritz. As a schoolchild, from 1858 to 1865, she lived with her uncle, the merchant Carl Friedrich Brosin, in Quedlinburg, where traces of her stay could still be discovered. In Quedlinburg, she met her cousin and later husband Dr. Oskar Brosin [1839-1888], a teacher of German and Latin. After his death in 1888, Marie and her children moved from Liegnitz to Dresden in 1891 in order to stay with her brother Dr. Friedrich Brosin [1858-1900]. After her brother’s tragic death in May 1900, Brosin’s path of life led her to Gehlberg, a small town and health resort in Thuringia. Only after the death of her son Hans in 1916 did she start to write poems and finally reminiscences of her childhood and youth. From 1923/1924 onwards she lived in Leipzig with her partner and literary mentor Dr. Bruno Golz [1873-1955], a specialist in German studies and passionate collector of German and Dutch graphic art prints of the 16th-19th centuries.
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| Content: | 294 pages, 50 illustrations | Cover: | Hardcover | |
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| Text: | German | Size: | 16 x 24 cm (8°) | |
| Abstracts in other languages: | none | weight: | 760 g | |
| Keywords: | autobiography, memory of one's youth, poem | |||
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-89646-020-2 | |||
| ISBN-10: | 3-89646-020-X | |||
| Place of Publication: | Rahden/Westf. | |||
| Price: | 20,50 € (fPr) | Date of Publication: | 2001 | |