Adele Berger
Adele Berger (born April 9, 1868 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † February 18, 1900 in Meran , Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian writer who mainly worked as a translator.
Life
Berger was born in Vienna in 1868. In 1890 she published the comedy Brennende Letters , freely adapted from the Russian, which was performed in the imperial-royal court theater . Her comedy adaptation Glück laughs only once was performed in the court theater in 1891. In addition to her work as a translator - including works translated from English - Berger also worked as a columnist for various magazines, including Pester Lloyd and the Neue Freie Presse . She died in Merano at the age of only 31.
Works
- 1890: Burning letters (comedy, freely based on the Russian of Suedic)
- 1890: Without love (novel)
- 1891: Thou Shalt Not Kill: Reply to Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata. By Dimitri Galitzin (translation)
- 1891: About life. By Leo Tolstoy (translation)
- 1894: Patriotism and Christianity. By Leo Tolstoy (translation)
- 1894: Master Motta. By Giovanni Verga (translation)
- 1895: Absinthe (novel, translated from English)
- 1897: The King of the Schnorrer. By Israel Zangwill (humoresque; translation)
- 1897: children of the ghetto. From Israel Zangwill. (Translation in two volumes)
- 1898: The Nihilist. Time novel. By Konstantin Fedorovič Golovin (translation)
- 1900: a beautiful Jewess. Novel by BL Farjean (translation)
- Russian short stories
literature
- Berger, Adele. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 182-184.
- Berger, Adele . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the history of German literature 9), p. 22.
- Berger, Adele . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 55 ( digitized version ).
- Berger, Adele . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 483 ( digitized version ). - Addendum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Adele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1900 |
| Place of death | Meran |