Auguste Hauschner Explained

Auguste Hauschner
Birth Name:	Auguste Sobotka
Birth Date:	12 February 1850
Birth Place:	Prague, Czech Republic
Death Place:	Berlin
Occupation:	Writer
Relatives:	Fritz Mauthner (cousin)

Auguste Hauschner (née Sobotka; February 12, 1850 — April 10, 1924)^[1] was a German writer. She also published under the pseudonym of Auguste Montag. She is considered as an important representative of German-speaking authors in Prague. In her work, she repeatedly pointed out socially critical issues.^{[2] [3]}

Life

Auguste Sobotka was born on February 12, 1850, in Prague, Czech Republic, and grew up there. She was the daughter of a merchant with Jewish roots. At the age of 14, Sobotka moved to Berlin, Germany, and attended the Jesenius boarding school for four years.^[4] In 1871, she returned to Prague and married painter and manufacturer Benno Hauschner. In the mid 1870s, she moved back to Berlin with her husband. Benno Hauschner died in 1890. Their apartment in the Tiergarten district developed in the following years into a salon for Berlin artists. In addition to her cousin Fritz Mauthner, with whom she was in close correspondence, Gustav Landauer, Maximilian Harden, Max Liebermann and Max Brod also frequented her Berlin salon.^{[5] [6]}

Auguste Hauschner began her literary work in the 1880s. She penned numerous short stories and novels in which she was one of the first women writers to deal with the questions of the social position of women, and deal with questions of Jewish identity.^[7] Her most important work is the novel Die Familie Lowositz (1908, two volumes), which was followed by Rudolf and Camilla in 1910.^[8] In it she draws an (autobiographical) study of the milieu of the German-Jewish upper middle class in Prague and Berlin. She also was a promoter of socialist, anarchist and feminist actors and projects.^[9]

Work

Auguste Hauschner has produced a total of 35 works in 110 publications and has 323 library holdings. Here are some widely held works by Auguste Hauschner:^[10]

• Daatjes Hochzeit; Novelle, 1902
• Kunst : Roman, 1904
• Zwischen den Zeiten, 1906
• Zwischen den Zeiten, 1906
• Die Familie Lowositz, 1908
• Die große Pantomine Roman, 1913
• Der Tod des Löwen, 1916
• Die Siedelung : Roman, 1918
• Der Versöhnungstag Novelle, 1919
• Nachtgespräche, 1919
• Die Heilung, 1921
• Die Heilung Roman, 1922

Literature

• • Hella-Sabrina Lange: "We are all standing between two times". On the work of the writer Auguste Hauschner (1850–1924). Essen: Klartext 2006. (= Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. 1.) . Inhaltsangabe der DNB
• Andreas B. Kilcher (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Stuttgart 2000: JBMetzler / Poeschel Verlag
• Hauschner, Auguste. In: Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren. Volume 10: Güde – Hein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002,, S. 248–262.
• Veronika Jičínská: Bohemian themes with Fritz Mauthner and Auguste Hauschner . Czech Republic / Ústí nad Labem 2014, (= Acta Universitatis Purkynianae, Facultatis Philosophicae Studia Germanica, Series Monographica 3)
• Birgit Seemann: “One human race above all peoples” – Auguste Hauschner, writer between Prague and Berlin. In: Renate Heuer (ed.): Hidden readings: new interpretations of Jewish-German texts from Heine to Rosenzweig; in memory of Norbert Altenhofer . Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003 S. 187–203.
• Jana Mikota: Jewish women writers – rediscovered: Auguste Hauschner . In: Medaon 3 (2009), 5 (online).

Further reading

• Literature by and about Auguste Hauschner in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Auguste Hauschner, the great-grandmother of Prague German literature", essay by literary scholar Ingeborg Fiala-Fürst
• "Auguste Hauschner", contemporary appreciation of Oskar Walzel in the Berliner Tageblatt of November 15, 1919

Notes and References

1. Web site: Auguste Hauschner (Sobotka). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20151215045126/https://www.geni.com/people/Auguste-Hauschner/6000000018581682296. 2015-12-15.
2. News: 1915-01-26. Aguste Hauschner Earns Fame In The East. 4. Detroit Abend-Post.
3. Book: Buber, Martin. The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue. Syracuse University Press. 1996. 978-0815604204. New York. 244–150. English.
4. Book: Hammel, Andrea. 'Not an Essence But a Positioning': German-Jewish Women Writers (1900–1938). Martin Meidenbauer. 2009. 978-3899751611. 15–24. English.
5. Book: Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890–1918. University of California Press. 1999. 978-0520222427. California. 201–203.
6. Book: Hahn, Barbara. The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity. Princeton University Press. 2005. 978-0691116143. New Jersey. 79–80. English.
7. News: 1947-04-17. Auguste Hauschners umstrittener Roman wirft nach 30 Jahren Fragen auf. German. 4. Süddeutsche Zeitung.
8. Book: Spangenberg, Carolin. "Die Familie Lowositz" von Auguste Hauschner – Eine Textanalyse. GRIN Verlag. 2005. 3–4. German. B007GH36AG.
9. Book: Beradt. Martin. Briefe an Auguste Hauschner. Bloch-Zavrel. Lotte. Ernst Rowohlt. 1929. 11–12, 251–254. German.
10. Web site: Auguste Hauschner works. live. WorldCat. https://web.archive.org/web/20191120005311/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2006090391/ . 2019-11-20 .