Olden, Bertha, Felicitas, née Schellenberg

feature writer, author

born: 07.03.1884 in Wiesbaden

died: 23.08.1958 in Starnberg

The daughter of the owner of the printing works and publisher of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt (WT), Ferdinand Ludwig Schellenberg, she was taught German and foreign languages by private tutors and married the Prussian captain Moritz von Nauendorf (latterly a lieutenant colonel) in 1905. In 1910, she joined the feature section of the WT as a trainee, where she was taken on by editor-in-chief Walter Schulte vom Brühl. By 1911, she was already a fully-fledged editor in the features section, which she soon took over. She was also present in Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and Vienna newspapers and magazines with stories, theater and art reviews as well as reports on events at the Erbenheim racecourse. Her novel "Gereifte Frucht" (Ripened Fruit), which attracted a great deal of attention at the time, reached a wider readership.

After the death of her father, she ran the Schellenberg'sche Hofbuchdruckerei and the WT together with her mother Marie Schellenberg (née Verdan) from 1920. However, she gave up this position just one year later to marry the writer Hans Olden after her divorce. After 1945, she wrote freelance for the Wiesbadener Kurier.