Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert
Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert (born August 22, 1874 in Hollerich , Luxembourg ; died January 20, 1947 in Cabris , France ), née Aline de Saint-Hubert , was a Luxembourg women's rights activist , author, literary critic and philanthropist . Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert founded several non-governmental organizations and was President of the Luxembourg Red Cross .
biography
Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert was the daughter of the Luxembourg timber wholesaler of Belgian descent Xavier de Saint-Hubert. Her sister Jeanne de Saint-Hubert was married to the lawyer and politician Xavier Brasseur from the industrial family Brasseur and married his cousin Robert Brasseur after Xavier's death. Aline attended the Luxembourg high school for girls "Sainte Sophie". From 1889 to 1890 she attended the Sartorius boarding school in Bonn .
Aline de Saint-Hubert married the young metallurgical engineer Émile Mayrisch on September 15, 1894 , who became general director of the steel giant Arbed in 1911 . They lived in Dudelange in southern Luxembourg . In 1901 the daughter Andrée Mayrisch was born.
The first of the many organizations that Aline Mayrisch founded was the “League for the Defense of the Interests of Women” in 1906, which in 1909 saw the establishment of the first two high schools for girls in Luxembourg. During this time, Aline Mayrisch convinced a group of prominent Luxembourg women to found a Luxembourg Association of female scout leaders.
Aline Mayrisch campaigned for charities such as the Luxembourg League against Tuberculosis ( French Ligue luxembourgeoise contre la tuberculose ) and the Luxembourg Red Cross ( French Croix-Rouge luxembourgeoise ), as well as for the training of social workers and the professionalization of social work.
When the First World War broke out , Aline Mayrisch set up a hospital near Dudelange to help those involved in the war on both sides. After the war she played a key role in the establishment of the Luxembourg League Against Tuberculosis, of which she became vice-president. She and her husband Émile were the main financiers of the league and its offshoots that emerged over the years. She soon had to do with the Luxembourg Red Cross and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1926. After the accidental death of her husband Émile in 1928, she became Vice-President and in 1933 President of the Luxembourg Red Cross.
Aline Mayrisch and her husband moved to Kolpach Castle in 1920 . After the war they received many German and French intellectuals here in their literary salon Cercle de Colpach . They had their castle in Dudelange converted into a children's home, the “Kreuzberg Foundation” ( Luxembourgish d'Fondatioun Kräizbierg ).
In 1939 Aline Mayrisch moved to Cabris in the south of France , where she died in 1947. She bequeathed Kolpach Castle to the Luxembourg Red Cross in the form of the "Émile Mayrisch Foundation".
League for the Defense of the Interests of Women
In 1906 Aline Mayrisch founded the "League for the Defense of the Interests of Women" ( French l'Association pour la Défense des Intérêts de la Femme ). Aline Mayrisch offered the hereditary grand duchess Maria-Adelheid the patronage of the league. However, she refused because a Roman Catholic feminist organization was being established. The main purpose of the league was to seek the establishment of public schools for girls, which should be accelerated by the creation of the affiliated "Association for the Creation of a School for Young Girls". Aline Mayrisch organized numerous conferences and advanced training courses for Luxembourg women, started a free legal advice service for poor women and commissioned a survey on the poor housing situation of the poorer population. But she was best known for her longstanding struggle for better educational opportunities for young women. In 1909 she founded an association dedicated to building a lyceum ( French Association pour la création d'un Lycée de jeunes filles ). In the same year the state agreed to the establishment of a lyceum, but with reservations and only for three years. During this time, the association was supposed to prove that a secondary school was actually needed for girls. This is how the Lycée Robert-Schuman came into being in the Luxembourg district of Limpertsberg . Numerous Luxembourgish middle class families sent their daughters to the new school. Previously, Luxembourgish girls were not allowed to attend secondary public schools. Aline Mayrisch and her colleagues brought the issue forward despite violent protests. The campaign achieved its goal in 1911 when the Luxembourg Chambre des Députés voted unanimously for publicly funded girls' schools in the capital Luxembourg and in Esch-sur-Alzette .
Art and literature
Aline Mayrisch was very interested in art and literature and saw herself as a mediator between the cultural worlds of Germany and France. In 1895 she became "membre protectrice" for the Belgian weekly magazine Pan . In 1898 she published articles about German painter and literary criticism in the Belgian avant-garde -Magazine L'Art moderne , including on the immoralist of André Gide . She cultivated friendships and correspondence with many writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide, Jean Schlumberger , Jacques Rivière , Henri Michaux , Marie and Théo van Rysselberghe , Marie Delcourt , Alexis Curvers , Annette Kolb , Gertrude Eysoldt , Ernst Robert Curtius and Bernhard Groethuysen .
Aline Mayrisch joined André Gide and Henri Ghéon on a trip to Turkey in 1914 . In 1927 she traveled to the Gironde and the Limousin with Ernst Robert Curtius .
In Kolpach Castle she arranged Franco-German receptions at which André Gide met Walter Rathenau and Ernst Robert Curtius. Paul Claudel , Jean Guéhenno , Jacques Rivière , Karl Jaspers , Bernard Groethuysen , André Gide , Jean Schlumberger , Ernst Robert Curtius , Annette Kolb and Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi visited the literary salon Cercle de Colpach .
Aline Mayrisch introduced André Gide to Rainer Maria Rilke's texts , and by writing an article about Rilke in the Nouvelle Revue Française , she helped find a French publisher for the German writer. In the same magazine she published articles on the intellectual situation in Germany after the First World War , as well as an autobiographical travelogue Paysages de la trentième année , which, starting on the islands of Corsica and Iceland, evoked the confrontation between emptiness, absurdity and nothingness.
Her unfinished novel Andrée Reimenkampf was not preserved for posterity.
Together with Marie Delcourt and Bernhard Groethuysen , Aline Mayrisch gave the sermons of the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart , L'enfant qui s'accuse by Jean Schlumberger and Le mythe de Sisyphe. Essai sur l'absurde translated by Albert Camus . In the 1930s, Aline Mayrisch financially supported the exile publication Measure and Value , which was published by Thomas Mann .
Some works were dedicated to Aline Mayrisch: The literary France today by Frantz Clement , Les Cahiers de la Petite Dame of Marie van Rysselberghe and La vie d'Euripide by Marie Delcourt.
Honors
The Lycée Aline Mayrisch , which opened in 2001 in her native Luxembourg, was named after her. It is the first school in Luxembourg to bear the name of a woman.
A memorial stone was dedicated to Aline Mayrisch in Luxembourg.
In Dudelange, a street was named after Aline Mayrisch.
Under the auspices of the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, the association “Le Cercle des Amis de Colpach” has been organizing a competition every four years for the award of the “Émile and Aline Mayrisch Prize” in close cooperation with the ArcelorMittal Group since 2007. The prize is intended to promote cultural exchange and mutual understanding among the European peoples in the spirit of the “Colpach Spirit”. The prize for particularly outstanding contributions from the fields of history, politics, economy, society and culture is endowed by ArcelorMittal with a total of € 14,000.
Works
Correspondence
- Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert, Jean Schlumberger : Aline Mayrisch - Jean Schlumberger: correspondance: 1907–1946 . Ed .: Cornel Meder, Pascal Mercier. Ministère de la culture, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, Luxembourg 2000, ISBN 2-87984-036-8 .
- Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert, André Gide : Correspondance André Gide - Aline Mayrisch 1903-1946 . Ed .: Pierre Masson, Cornel Meder. Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-072946-X (French).
- Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert, Jacques Rivière : Correspondance 1912–1925 / Aline Mayrisch . Ed .: Pierre Masson, Cornel Meder. Center d'Etudes Gidiennes, Limonest 2007 (French).
- Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert, Marie Delcourt-Curvers ( Marie Delcourt ): Correspondance: 1923–1946: avec quelques lettres d'Aline Mayrisch à Hélène Legros, Alexis Curvers, Denise Halkin . Ed .: Catherine Gravet, Cornel Meder. Cercle des amis de Colpach, Luxembourg 2009, ISBN 978-99959-6130-5 (French).
- Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert: Toute la noblesse de sa nature: recueil des écrits publiés . Ed .: Cornel Meder. Ed. du Cercle des amis de Colpach, 2014, ISBN 978-99959-6131-2 (French).
Translations
- Master Eckhart : Telle était Sœur Katrei ... Traité et Sermons [de Maître Eckhart]. (= Collection "Documents Spirituels" . Volume 9 ). Editions des Cahiers du Sud, Paris 1954 (French, German: This is sister Katrei, Master Eckhart's daughter from Strasbourg . Translated by Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert).
literature
- Tony Bourg : André Gide and Madame Mayrisch . 1978 (French).
- Jules Mersch: Alie Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert . In: Victor Buck (Ed.): Biographie nationale du pays de Luxembourg . Luxembourg 1963, p. 471-473 (French, Luxemburgensia online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Germaine Goetzinger: Aline Mayrisch-de Saint Hubert. In: Luxembourg Authors' Lexicon. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Jules Mersch: Alie Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert . In: Victor Buck (Ed.): Biographie nationale du pays de Luxembourg . tape 12 : Les Metz, la dynastie du fer / par Jules Mersch . Buck, Luxembourg 1963, OCLC 313244495 , pp. 471-473 (French, Luxemburgensia online ).
- ↑ Les debuts. In: Croix-Rouge luxembourgeoise. Retrieved January 17, 2017 .
- ^ Germaine Goetzinger: Aline Mayrisch, une notice biographique. (No longer available online.) In: Cercle des Amis de Colpach. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; Retrieved January 17, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Emile and Aline Mayrisch Prize. (No longer available online.) In: Le Cercle des Amis de Colpach. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Saint-Hubert, Aline Mayrisch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Saint-Hubert, Aline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Luxembourg women's rights activist, author and philanthropist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luxembourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1947 |
| Place of death | Cabris , France |