Mite Kremnitz

Mite Kremnitz, born Marie von Bardeleben, was a German writer.

Biography

Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. She grew up in Greifswald, London, and, beginning in 1868, Berlin. Later she married the doctor Wilhelm Kremnitz and moved with him to Bucharest in 1875. The couple had two children.
In Romania, Marie became good friends with Queen Elisabeth, who wrote poems, novels, and short stories under the nom de plume Carmen Sylva, and in 1881 she was appointed her maid of honor. They published several novels and a drama in collaboration, Marie signing with the pseudonym Ditto and Idem. In 1890, she changed it to Mite Kremnitz.
After her husband's death in 1897, Kremnitz returned to Berlin. She died on 18 July 1916, aged 64.

Works

Rumänische Dichtungen, 1881Fluch der Liebe, short stories, 1881Neue rumänische Skizzen, 1881Rumänische Märchen, 1882Aus der rumänischen Gesellschaft, two novels, 1882Ein Fürstenkind, a novel, 1883Rumäniens Anteil am Kriege 1877-78, 1887

as Ditto and Idem: Anna Boleyn, historic drama, 1886
as Ditto and Idem: Astra, an epistolary novel, 1886
as Ditto and Idem: Feldpost, an epistolary novel, 1886
as Ditto and Idem: Rache und andere Novellen, 1888
as Ditto and Idem: In der Irre, short stories, 1887 Ausgewanderte, a novel, 1890Elina. Zwischen Kirche und Pastorat, two short stories, 1894Sein Brief, short stories, 1896Herr Baby. Eine Kindergeschichte, 1901Mann und Weib, short stories, 1902Am Hofe der Ragusa, a novel, 1902Fatum, stories, 1903König Karol von Rumänien. Ein Lebensbild, 1903Carmen Sylva, a biography, 1903Maria, Fürstin Mutter zu Wied, Prinzessin zu Nassau. Lebensbild, 1904Mutterrecht, short stories, 1906Eine Hilflose, a novel, 1906Was die Welt schuldig nennt, 1907Der rote Streif. Eine Liebesgeschichte, 1908Ist das - das Leben?, Roman, 1909Die Getäuschten, Roman, 1909Laut Testament, Roman, 1911Das Geheimnis der Weiche, stories, 1913