Adda of Liliencron

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Adda Valesca Caroline Emma Freifrau von Liliencron , born Freiin von Wrangel (born July 28, 1844 in Charlottenburg , † January 23, 1913 near Bitterfeld ), was a German writer .

Life

Adda was a daughter of the Prussian general of the infantry Karl von Wrangel (1812–1899) and his wife Adelheid von Strantz (1813–1891). On July 29, 1864 she married the cavalry officer Karl Freiherr von Liliencron and lived with him in the Potsdam and Nauen garrisons . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 she worked in the hospital in France. When the husband retired as Rittmeister for health reasons and was appointed royal Prussian chamberlain , the couple bought an estate in Sproitz in Upper Lusatia in 1874 . Her daughter Adda (1865–1951) married the Prussian officer Günther von Kirchbach in 1883 , who later became President of the Imperial Military Court . After the death of her husband in 1901, Adda von Liliencron sold the manor and lived with her daughter in Danzig and from 1903 in Schwerin , where she devoted herself to literary and social projects.

Since moving to Sproitz, she has written and published historical novels and other literary texts. Your jubilee gift for the 100th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I reached a circulation of more than 500,000 in just a few weeks in 1897. After becoming aware of the Herero War and the acquaintance of Schutztruppe soldiers, she became very interested in the German colonies in Africa from 1904 onwards and wrote dozens of depictions, dramas, poems and stories about Germans and the war in German South West Africa . She invited Berthold von Deimling , among others, to events for those interested in the colonial war , collected donations in kind for the German colonial troops and organized their dispatch to Mecklenburg soldiers in Africa. In 1907 she became the founding chairwoman of the German Colonial Women's Association , which became part of the German Colonial Society the following year . She campaigned for the support of the German settlers and soldiers and the emigration of women to German South West Africa in order to prevent connections between German men living there and native African women. The emigrating “women's material” should be selected according to strict eugenic quality criteria in order to create a suitable basis for the emergence of a population of “German South West Africans”.

In contrast to her dramas, her soldier's song book (1906) and her trilogy of the related war stories Nach Südwestafrika (1906), The decisive battle on Waterberg (1907) and Bis in das Sandfeld inside (1908), which appealed to an audience interested in adventure literature, were successful . Her supporters and readers from the colonial movement called her the "Lady of Africa" ​​and valued her very much. A youth home built by the women's association of the colonial society in Lüderitzbucht was called the “Adda von Liliencron Foundation”, and in 1914 a memorial stone was also placed in Lüderitzbucht. She herself has never been to South West Africa, but nevertheless regarded herself as an intimate expert on the country.

Fonts (selection)

  • Giovanna . Historical novel. Publishing house Gadow & Sohn, Hildburghausen 1881
  • Too late . Novel. A. Deichert Nachf. (G. Böhme), Leipzig 1890
  • To the limit. Memories from the life of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico . Costenoble, Jena 1896
  • Wera Paulowna or The Decision in the Shipka Pass . Berlin 1896
  • Kaiser Wilhelm the Great. An anniversary gift to celebrate the hundredth birthday of the unforgettable emperor . Font Distribution Agency, Berlin 1897
  • Rushed to death. Roman (unpublished, 1899)
  • Wounded. Narrative. H. Klein (Jul.Pertz), Barmen 1900
  • General of the Infantry Baron Karl von Wrangel. A picture of life based on his own records . Gotha 1903
  • Gottfried Thomas. Award-winning story from Prussia's difficult days . West German Youth Association, Elberfeld 1904
  • Sounds of war by the Imperial Protection Force in German South-West Africa. Verlag Franz Spenker, Hamburg 1906 (song book for Schutztruppe soldiers)
  • To South West Africa. Experiences from the Herero War based on letters from fellow combatants (= German Youth and People's Library, Volume 208). Published by JF Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1906
  • Equestrian letters from the southwest. Letters and poems from the campaign in South West Africa in the years 1904–1906. Leipzig 1907
  • A fateful sheet . Font Distribution Agency, Berlin [1907]
  • The decisive battle at the Waterberg. Based on letters from fellow combatants and using the publications of the General Staff (= German Youth and People's Library, Volume 211). Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1907
  • Right into the sand field. African time picture up to the end of 1904 based on letters from fellow combatants and using the publications of the General Staff (= German Youth and People's Library, Volume 218). Steinkopf, Stuttgart, 1908 (2nd edition 1914; reprinted by Fines Mundi - Rolf Kittler, Saarbrücken 2009)
  • We were our four . Narrative. Font Distribution Agency, Berlin [1909]
  • A young hero from the war of liberation. Bookstore of the Nassau Colportage Association, Herborn 1910
  • Incas. On a fairytale trip to sun-drenched Africa. With pictures by Anna Noel geb. Pogge. Font Distribution Agency, Berlin 1910
  • War and peace. Memories from the life of an officer's wife . R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1912. New edition by Michael Holzinger (Ed. And editing ), Holzinger, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-1483960432 (digitized version )

literature

  • Liliencron, Baron Adda von . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 503 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gudrun Wedel: autobiographies of women. A lexicon. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20585-0 , p. 507f. ( Review by Rolf Löchel).
  • Manuel Junge: The image of Africa and Africans in the texts of Adda Freifrau von Liliencron. A literary historical contribution to the colonial foreign perception in the German Empire around 1900. In: Claudia Glunz, Thomas F. Schneider (Ed.): Attitudes to war. Literature and film from Shakespeare to Afghanistan (= war and literature, yearbook XVIII 2012). V&R, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0040-9 , pp. 41–58 ( full text in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annette Thomas (arrangement), Landesarchiv Berlin (ed.): Finding aid for the Rudolf Mosse estate (PDF; 2.5 MB) , inventory E Rep. 061-16, Berlin 2006, index number 406, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Annette Thomas (arrangement), Landesarchiv Berlin (ed.): Finding aid for the Rudolf Mosse estate, Berlin 2006, inventory signature E Rep. 061-16 No. 1736, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Liliencron, Adda of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrangel, Adda von (maiden name); Liliencron, Adda Valesca Caroline Emma from (full name); Dame of Africa (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1913
Place of death Bitterfeld