Annette Kolb

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Annette Kolb,
charcoal drawing by Günter Rittner , 1965

Annette Kolb , real name Anna Mathilde Kolb , (born February 3, 1870 in Munich , † December 3, 1967 in Munich) was a German writer . She campaigned sustainably for peace and earned services to the Franco-German understanding. In novels, she dealt capriciously and gracefully with high society life.

Life

Munich, Händelstr. 1: Memorial plaque for Annette Kolb

Born as the third daughter of the Munich garden architect Max Kolb and the Parisian pianist Sophie Danvin, Franco-German influences shaped life and work. Her father Max Kolb was an illegitimate offspring of the Wittelsbach family. According to various traditions, either the later King Maximilian II or Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria was his father. In the first case the father Annette Kolbs would have been a half-brother of Ludwig II , in the second case a half-brother of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria . The maternal grandparents were a well-known French landscape painter couple: Felix and Constance Amelie Danvin. Annette Kolb grew up in Munich and spent her first school years at the Thurnfeld Abbey School near Hall in Tirol . She discovered her passion for writing and in 1899 published her first self-financed book.

During the First World War, she resolutely advocated pacifism . After a lecture in Dresden on January 11, 1915, a vehement plea for the use of common sense and for a European understanding among peoples sparked tumults. The Bavarian War Ministry imposed a letter and travel ban on her in 1916 “because of pacifist activities”. At the instigation of Walther Rathenau , Annette Kolb was able to go into exile in Switzerland.

In 1923 the writer settled in Badenweiler , where the architects Paul Schmitthenner and Wilhelm Jost had built a house for her the previous year . In the twenties she played an important role in German literary life. Rainer Maria Rilke was enthusiastic about her novels, with René Schickele , whom she had known since 1914, her neighbor in Badenweiler, an Alsatian writer and advocate of the German-French reconciliation of interests, they were friends until his death in 1940. In 1929 portrayed the writer in a book the French Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aristide Briand .

In the 1920s, Kolb took part in meetings of the Cercle de Colpach , which Aline Mayrisch led in Luxembourg. Mayrisch wanted to initiate cultural encounters between Western Europeans and promote Franco-German relations as the core of a future peaceful European unification.

Annette Kolb's glasses in the Monacensia

In 1933 Annette Kolb emigrated to Paris and thus completely broke away from the Germany of the National Socialists ; they had publicly outlawed and burned their books. In 1936 she became a French citizen. In 1941 the 71-year-old fled to New York. After the war she lived in Paris as well as in Munich and Badenweiler until 1961 . She last lived in Munich. Annette Kolb was literary, musically, journalistically and politically active well into old age. Her grave is located in the small Bogenhausen cemetery on Neuberghauser Strasse in Munich (Wall grave No. 10 on the right). The estate - 23 cassettes with correspondence, among others - from Annette Kolb is in the Monacensia

Awards and honors

Works

Memorial plaque for the German and Austrian refugees in Sanary-sur-Mer , including Annette Kolb
  • 1899: Short essays , her first book
  • 1906: L'Ame aux deux patries , collected features articles
  • 1913: The copy , novel
  • 1917: Letters from a German-French woman
  • 1921: Zarastro. Western days , memories of 1917/18
  • 1924: Wera Njedin , stories and sketches
  • 1925: pointed arches , novella
  • 1928: Daphne Herbst , novel
  • 1929: attempt on Briand , portrait of the statesman
  • 1932: Book of complaints , essays
  • 1934: The swing , novel
  • 1937: Mozart. His life. , Biography
  • 1941: Schubert. His life. , Biography
  • 1947: King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Richard Wagner , sketch
  • 1951: Prelude to a "dream book" , in Die Neue Rundschau , vol. 62, 1951, no. 1
  • 1954: Leaves in the Wind , essays
  • 1960: Memento , memories of emigration
  • 1964: Zeitbilder. Memories 1906-1964

Work edition

reception

literature

  • Sigrid Bauschinger : Annette Kolb. In: Britta Jürgs (Ed.): Because there is nothing left as nature intended. Portraits of women artists and writers around 1900. AvivA Verlag, Berlin, 2001, ISBN 3-932338-13-8 , pp. 281–295
  • Elazar Benyoetz : Annette Kolb and Israel. Lothar Stiehm Verlag, Heidelberg 1970.
  • Anke Buettner: Annette Kolb: "I have something to say". For the 150th birthday of Munich's femme des lettres, pacifist and exile . In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern , Vol. 14 (2020), pp. 52–55 ( online ).
  • Hiltrud Häntzschel :  Kolb, Annette. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , pp. 438-440 ( digitized version ).
  • Vivian Liska : “The Modern Age - One Woman.” Using the example of the novels Ricarda Huchs and Annette Kolbs. A. Francke, Tübingen and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7720-2751-2
  • Jürgen Schwalm: "I had to say it my way." Annette Kolb (1870–1967), Leben und Werk. Publishing house literary tradition, Bad Schwartau 2006, ISBN 3-86672-019-X
  • Isabelle Stauffer: Female dandies, powerful femmes fragiles. Ironic staging of gender in the fin de siècle. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2008. ISBN 978-3-412-20252-1 . (On Kolb's novels Das Exemplar , Daphne Herbst and The Swing, as well as the essay Der neue Schlag .)
  • Armin Strohmeyr : Annette Kolb. Poet between the peoples. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-30868-0 ; Completely revised and expanded new edition: Munich: Piper, October 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-31217-2
  • Charlotte Marlo Werner: Annette Kolb. A literary voice of Europe. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein / Taunus 2000, ISBN 3-89741-037-0

Web links

Grave in the Bogenhausen cemetery
Commons : Annette Kolb  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Tworek: Literature in the archive. Holdings of the Monacensia. Munich 2002, p. 77
  2. ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953-1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 30, 2015)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kulturkreis.eu  
  3. ^ A b Badische Zeitung: 50th year of death of the honorary citizen of Badenweiler Annette Kolb - Badenweiler - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 5, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Excerpt: After a fun evening, a garden party, every girl had to name her favorite pastime. "Laugh!" I called. The moon was in the sky and we were all very young. I had been delightful, at least it felt so to me. My life promised to be interesting and enjoyable, why not? "Don't be meek," I said afterwards to my picture in the mirror. The text is a fragment of approx. 10 pages, preserved in your estate in the Munich City Library . In 1962, the author did not think it was good enough to be published again. (According to the preface by Rolf Hochhuth to: German storytellers of the 20th century , Volume 1, Bertelsmann 1963, p. 9)
  5. ^ Dorothee Philipp: "A Kolb experience space" . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb, Anna Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1967
Place of death Munich , Germany