Hedwig
Courths-Mahler
born 18 feb 1867 / died 26 nov 1950
Hedwig Courths-Mahler is one of those female authors,
who are named not serious enough, not worth to be read
shoddy, trash, kitsch romance writer
although read by millions since more than 100 years,
she's still an undercover author
even the actors who played in the 70's film adaptations
erase this "shamefully" past in their life
her own life is like one of her novels
born in shabby & poorest circumstances,
the mother a whore, illegitimate father a skipper
writes her first novel with 17, publicated in a newspaper
Hedwig masters her career with ambition, dilligence, courage & discipline
a good job since the beginning of female emancipation
she did, what she wanted to do,
self conscious & unperturbed by those, mostly male critics,
who have to tell the readers, what's worth to be read
& what not ...
i'm curious, when the time will come, to "discover" Hedwig Courths-Mahler
like others were discovered suddenly & rehabilitates after zillion of years first
just few links because of the "unworthy" content:
Hedwig Courths-Mahler biographie
Hedwig Courths-Mahler Archiv & Heimatmuseum
Nebra
Nebra im Unstrut-Trias-Land
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Mittlere Unstrut
biographie in german
Hedwig Courths-Mahler leben, Romane & Leseproben in german
Hedwig (Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth) Courths-Mahler
Weißenfels
Berliner Gedenktafel
Ihre Romane in alphabetischer Reihenfolge
Durch Liebe erlöst - Andreas Graf
Tränen des Ekels - eine "unparteische" einschätzung im Spiegel
trivial literature
Du meine Königin
Der Gartenzwerg im Herzen von Silke Becker
Schleimhaut inklusive
Schlager und Romane
Hedwig Courths-Mahler bei Bastei Luebbe
Reinhold Elschot's Durch Liebe erlöst
27 may 2002