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E. MARLITT EUGENIE JOHN GERMAN FEMALE WRITER NOVELS FILM TV CDV PHOTO GERMANY:
$50.00
CARTE DE VISITE (CDV) OF AUTHOR E. MARLITT (psedonym of Eugenie John). There is biographical information at the bottom of the listing. Note that several of Marlitt\'s works were used as a basis for film and television.
\"E. Marlitt\" is handwritten in ink on the front, at the bottom of the mount.
PHOTOGRAPHER INFORMATION. Blindstamp on the front, at the bottom of the mount: \"PHOTOGRAPHISCHES ATELIER CHR. BEITZ ARNSTADT.\"
SIZE. Approximately 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches.
CONDITION. Photo: Some soiling. Tiny scuff mark at top edge, to the left of center. Dark spot at right edge, below center. Mount: Wear at top corners and along bottom edge. Some soiling on front and back. Back also has old soiled paper affixed at left and right edges.
APPEARANCE. Masterful lighting. Good to very good tones. Sharp details. A lovely portrait.
E. MARLITT. \"In the little more than two decades that extended from the time of her first publications in the mid 1860s until her death in 1887 the writer known by her pen name of E. Marlitt (Friederike Henriette Christiane Eugenie John, 1825 – 87) became one of the most widely-read authors in Germany, and, indeed, throughout the world. Her novels and short fiction were all initially published in serialized from in Die Gartenlaube, a family journal whose circulation expanded dramatically when Marlitt became its featured author. The works were soon published in book format and distributed in multiple editions that found their way into the most obscure corners of the German Reich and to its most distant colonies abroad. Translations into English, Russian, Chinese, and nearly every modern European language extended the range of the German juggernaut still further, transforming a local bestseller into an international blockbuster. In the last third of the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth, Marlitt’s works were read wherever the German language was spoken, and also in many places where it was not. The contrast between Marlitt’s global readership and her own secluded life could hardly be more extreme. Born in the small Thuringian city of Arnstadt, this second child of a bankrupt businessman and penurious portrait-painter had initially aspired to a career as an opera singer. After a promising start as a chamber singer in the highest aristocratic circles of Vienna, Eugenie John suffered from crippling stage fright in her operatic debut and soon developed what may have been psychosomatic hearing problems. Deeply depressed, John was forced to abandon her career and return home to Thuringia. She spent the next decade as the traveling companion and nurse to a divorced aristocratic woman, until her own growing health problems forced her to return to her family in 1863. Marlitt’s travels, which had in any case never extended beyond Southern Germany and Vienna, were over. By 1870, her growing royalties allowed her to move with her brother’s family from their cramped quarters in Arnstadt to the luxurious \'Villa Marlitt\' on the outskirts of town, but severe arthritis soon confined Marlitt to a wheelchair. She rarely received visitors, had no ties to her contemporary writers, and, as far as we know, only allowed herself to be photographed twice. She died where she was born, in Arnstadt, after a long illness and great suffering; she was never married.\" (source: article titled Marlitt’s World: Domestic Fiction in an Age of Empire, by Todd Kontje, in The German Quarterly, Volume 77, No. 4, Autumn, 2004)\"Works
Die zwölf Apostel (1865) This is her first novel. It appeared in the Leipzig Gartenlaube.
Goldelse (1866) This novel marked the beginning of her celebrity, its readers attracted by its graphic and poetic delineations of German life.
Blaubart (1866)
Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1868)
Thüringer Erzählungen (1869)
Reichsgräfin Gisela (1870)
Heideprinzeßchen (1872)
Die zweite Frau (1874)
These novels were made available in English translations by Annis Lee Wister of Philadelphia. Marlitt\'s collected works appeared in 10 volumes (Leipzig, 1888–90; second edition, 1891-94).Marlitt published several works in the German weekly magazine Die Gartenlaube (such as Reichsgräfin Gisela in 1869).Selected filmography
Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell (1917)
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1917)
Die Frau mit den Karfunkelsteinen (1917)
Die zweite Frau (1918)
Old Mamsell\'s Secret (1925)
El secreto de la solterona (Mexico, 1945)
Old Mamsell\'s Secret [de] (1972, TV film)
Im Schillingshof [de] (1973, TV film)
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975, TV film)
Die zweite Frau [de] (1983, TV film)
Die Frau mit den Karfunkelsteinen (1985, TV film)\" (source: Wikipedia)
E. MARLITT EUGENIE JOHN GERMAN FEMALE WRITER NOVELS FILM TV CDV PHOTO GERMANY $50.00
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