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- Title
'EINE WIRKLICHE MÄRCHENERZÄHLERIN'? THE SHORT PROSE OF ERNST ROSMER.
- Authors
Gillett, Robert
- Abstract
A serious problem with many previous accounts of the German short prose form in the nineteenth century is that they fail to take into account the vital contribution made by women to the genre. Equally, it is often forgotten just how crucial the 'Kunstmärchen' was in this regard. This essay seeks to address this problem by examining in some detail the prose works of Elsa Bernstein, née Porges, who wrote as Ernst Rosmer. Rosmer is known, if she is known at all, as a dramatist of the naturalist school. But she owed her greatest success to a fairy-tale opera set to music by Engelbert Humperdinck, the composer of Hänsel und Gretel. And she also published a volume of 'Novellen', as well as contributing works in the short form to a number of periodicals. Together, this small but impressive body of work - and its reception - offer exemplary insights into an often neglected aspect of German short prose in the nineteenth century.
- Subjects
ROSMER, Ernst, 1866-1949; MADONNA (Book); DER Bauer und das Prinzesschen (Book); DAS Marchen vom Leid (Short story); 19TH century German literature -- History &; criticism; FAIRY tales -- History &; criticism; GERMAN fairy tales; LITERATURE; WOMEN authors; GERMAN literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
German Life & Letters, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 4, p598
- ISSN
0016-8777
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/glal.12102