Caroline Märklin - She made children laugh but had to fight for her own happiness.
Novel
Go on a journey with the bravest female entrepreneur of the 19th century
For readers of Laura Baldini’s Lehrerin einer neuen Zeit
The story of the woman who made children smile and established an empire.
People said that she was lucky to still get a man when in 1959 Caroline Hettich aged 33 married tinsmith Wilhelm Märklin. In truth, he is the lucky one: Caroline is a charming bundle of energy that brings the new wind into his tin business with her ideas for new toys. The 19th century is full of so many new ways of thinking and acting. The railroads are steaming through the world and Caroline defies the ruling order of men as the first female commercial traveller. But an unhappy love overshadows her fate.
Märklin and the railways remind me of the sound of my childhood. My grandfather was a level-crossing attendant and lived in small foliage-covered railway cottage next to the tracks. Jingling glasses and conversations interrupted by the rattling of trains were completely normal there, as was talking about model trains.” Charlotte von Feyerabend.
“A fascinating woman. And a wonderful novel with which Charlotte von Feyerabend remembers and inspires.” Petra about Selma Lagerlöf – sie lebte die Freiheit und erfand Nils Holgersson
Charlotte von Feyerabend went out into the world at a young age. After hotel management training and a degree in literature, media education and text technology, she held jobs at various publishing houses and in PR and marketing. The author lived for six years in Oslo, five years in Berlin and two years in Stockholm, where she fell in love with the Swedish landscape and its stories. In 2020, she returned to Germany. By this time, her luggage consisted of three children, a Norwegian forest cat, seven published books (the most recent being a Kindle no. 1 bestseller and a no. 1 BILD bestseller) as well as published games and professional experience as an educator and a lecturer at a writing school, and involvement with projects with the Goethe Institut in Oslo. In 2019, she was invited to the Tysk Norsk literature festival in Oslo as an author. She is a member of DeLiA and can conjure a story from almost anything.
