Anna Brunnemann

Anna Elisabeth Brunnemann (6 May 1865 – 7 May 1926) was a German writer and translator.

Biography

Anna Brunnemann was born in Meissen, the daughter of the Saxon mining scientist and later director of the Meissen State Porcelain Manufactory Horst Brunnemann (1836–1911). After attending school in Meissen, she studied modern philology at the Technical University of Dresden from 1904 under Georg Treu and others. Brunnemann made a name for herself as a linguist, translator, and essayist and author of novellas. She admired Ellen Key and was friends with Katharina Scheven.

In 1894 she was one of the founders of the Bismarck Women's Association in Dresden, and in 1904 she became a member of the Dresden Legal Defense Association. Brunnemann earned lasting merits by organizing the publication of the Bismarck-Jahrbuch für deutsche Frauen (Bismarck Yearbook for German Women), which she edited alone as successor to Wilhelm Streit from 1922 until her death in 1926. In addition, she translated several works from French into German.

She died one day after her 61st birthday in Dresden.

Works

Monographs

• Max Klingers Radierungen vom Schicksal des Weibes (1903)
• Vom Einfluss und Ansehen Deutscher Kultur in Frankreich (1917)
• Deutsche Frauen in Kriegszeiten (1917)
• Les Grandidier. Eine Nouvelle in Gesprächsform zur Einführung in die Umgangssprachre und in die Lebensverhältnisse des französischen Volkes (1924)
• Théophile Gautier (1925)

Essays

• "Jules Lemaître," Die Gegenwart, No. 24 (1896), pp. 374–76.
• "Maurice Barrès," Die Gegenwart, No. 46 (1896), pp. 310–13.
• "Malwida von Meysenbug. Ein idealistisches Frauenleben," Westermanns Monatshefte (1902/1903)
• "Die griechische Tragödie in neuem Gewand," Die Frau, Vol. XXIV (1917), pp. 210–19.
• "Aus der Kriegstätigkeit der Dresdner Frauenvereine," Dresdner Kalender (1919), pp. 76–79.
• "Therese aus dem Winckel. Ein Frauenleben aus der Dresdner Biedermeierzeit," Westermanns Monatshefte, Vol. CXXVIII (1920)

Translations

• Arthur de Gobineau, Die Renaissance (1921)
• Henri Murger, La Boheme (1927)

References

• Dorothea Bernholz, Probleme des Frauenstudiums an den technischen Hochschulen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Dissertation, Universität Dresden (1968)
• Ursula Becher, Jörn Rüsen, eds., Weiblichkeit in geschichtlicher Perspektive. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main (1988)
• Margrit Twellmann, Die deutsche Frauenbewegung – ihre Anfänge und erste Entwicklung 1843–1899. Hain Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (1993)