Ada Ditzen

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Adelaide Ditzen (* 1859 in Limburg an der Lahn ; † 1939) was a German translator . Among other things, she translated Alexandra David-Néel's writings on Buddhism from French. She became known as "Aunt Ada" of the poet Hans Fallada .

Life

Adelaide “Ada” Ditzen was the unmarried sister of Hans Fallada 's father, eight years his junior , real name Rudolf Ditzen. She is considered an early example of an emancipated woman at that time. In Lausanne she trained as a nurse and initially worked as an assistant to the Italian doctor Raffaele Bastianelli. In 1912 she looked after her then 19-year-old nephew Rudolf Ditzen in the Tannenfeld sanatorium in Tannenfeld near Löbichau, taught him in English, French and Italian, arranged translation jobs for him and recommended therapeutic writing for him. As early as 1910, Rudolf Ditzen had expressed his desire to become a writer to his aunt. She is said to have been the first to discover his literary talent.

In her research on the life and work of Hans Fallada, her correspondence with Dr. Tecklenburg, Fallada's doctor in charge of the Tannenfeld sanatorium , as a source.

literature

  • Gunnar Müller-Waldeck: News about Romain Rolland, Hans Fallada and Ada Ditzen . In: Hans Fallada Jahrbuch 3 , Federchen Verlag 2000.
  • Jenny Williams: More Life Than One - Hans Fallada . Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-351-02532-8 ; also as a construction paperback, ATV 2004. ISBN 978-3-746-61182-2
  • The good people of all countries. Aunt Adelaide Ditzen. In: Heide Hampel, Erika Becker, Achim Ditzen: Hans Fallada and the dear relatives. Edition Federchen in Steffen-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-941-68323-5 , pp. 60–68

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Weber: Sons of Jurists as Poets , Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1578-4 , p. 63
  2. ↑ Hans Fallada: Santa Claus - what now? Stories about the festival , appendix biographical note, construction publisher, 6th edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-03417-7
  3. ↑ Short biography
  4. ↑ Jenny Williams: Berlin and the Early Life and Work of Hans Fallada , in: Thomas Bredohl, Michael Zimmermann (Ed.): Berlin's Culturescape in the 20th Century , University of Regina Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-88977-224-3 , P. 64f.
  5. ↑ blurb u. Review note on Perlentaucher
  6. ↑ Excerpt from the English original with a mention of Adas ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Review in the Holsteinischer Courier of the sh: z
personal data
SURNAME Ditzen, Ada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ditzen, Adelaide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH 1939