Annie Neumann-Hofer

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Annie Neumann-Hofer

Annie (Cecilia) Neumann-Hofer (née Bock), as author: Annie Bock , (born March 20, 1868 in New York City , † after 1944) was a German-speaking writer, translator and concert pianist of American origin.

Life

Little is known about the life of Annie Neumann-Hofer. Her name is missing in almost all literary histories, biographical works and author's encyclopedias, even those who specialize in women authors. She is also rarely mentioned from a scientific point of view, although between the early 1890s and the mid-1930s she created an extensive narrative that mostly consisted of bulky novels. In addition to this novel, there are also some short stories , dramas , comedies , humoresques and factual texts . Plays like colleagues! (1895) were performed not only in Berlin, but also abroad. In addition, Neumann-Hofer worked as a translator, for example, of George Moore's Esther Waters (Eng. Work and pray , Berlin 1904) and Henry Batailles Résurrection (1902; German Resurrection , Berlin 1903; based on Tolstoy's novel Воскресение / Resurrection ). A publication in Hebrew is also proven .

If she is listed in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar from 1924 with a Berlin address, the 1934 edition, with reference to a possible stay in her home town of New York, states that her address is unknown. The files of the Schiller Foundation (correspondence with Annie Neumann-Hofer) indicate that she continued to live in Berlin and moved to Baden-Baden in 1942 . The last letter, addressed to Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels , dated January 26, 1944, relates to the loss of the manuscript "The Secret of the Wild Hans" by an aerial bomb attack in December 1943 on the Werner-Dietsch publishing house in Leipzig .

It is known that she came to Germany in 1879, trained as a concert pianist here with Siegmund Lebert in Stuttgart and gave concerts in all major cities in Germany, including Paris and London , in the years that followed. From 1882 until 1885 she lived in America again and went on several concert tours there. She then returned to Germany to continue her training (with Amalie Joachim ) and her career, but discovered a few years later during a one-year stay in Switzerland in 1888/89 her passion for writing, which she now "wholeheartedly" and zeal ". Neumann-Hofer took her permanent residence in Berlin and began to write articles about her travels and her life as a virtuoso for the feature section of the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1891 she became the wife of the writer and theater director Gilbert Otto Neumann-Hofer (1857–1941).

In 1917 in the Political Wilhelmine-imperialist and nationalist and conservative societal up reactionary (eg. Was emancipation ) minded Annie Neumann-Hofer obviously as a member of a project funded by the highest the state League of truth ( League of Truth ), the particular German -Americans engaged in war propaganda against the US, embroiled in a diplomatic affair. A number of American newspapers reported on it in detail, naming Neumann-Hofer.

Works

  • Selam. A bouquet of novellas . Dresden 1890.
  • Tarantella . Novel. 2 vol., Berlin 1894.
  • Samson and Delilah . Novel. 2 vol., Stuttgart 1894.
  • Marie-Antoinette. A historical drama in 5 acts . Berlin 1894.
  • The chosen one . Roman, Berlin 1895.
  • Colleagues! Comedy, Berlin 1895.
  • Lead us into temptation! Roman, Berlin 1896.
  • Dora Peters. Two who loved each other . Roman, Berlin 1896.
  • Ellen . Novella, Leipzig 1897.
  • Loneliness . Roman (continuation by Dora Peters ), Berlin 1897.
  • A fatal story . Berlin 1897.
  • The Rizzoni family . Roman, Berlin 1898.
  • The dead one . Story, Berlin 1898.
  • Robert . Humoresque, Berlin 1898.
  • The train to the east . Roman, Berlin 1898.
  • מתה ספורה / ha-Metah: sipur (in Hebrew ). Varsha 1899.
  • Countess Sophie . Roman, Berlin 1900.
  • Dead love . Novel 1901.
  • Dora Peters . Acting 1902.
  • The child prodigy . Comedy 1903.
  • Superman . Roman (A Nietzsche novel) 1903.
  • Wilted leaves and other things . Stories 1911.
  • A little Don Juan and others . Stories 1911.
  • Wotan's farewell . Comedy 1911
  • The Montresore . Drama (after Edgar Allan Poe ) 1911.
  • The almighty dollar . Roman, Wiesbaden 1911.
  • Cronies . Drama 1911.
  • The snake dancer . Drama, Berlin 1911.
  • Woman suffrage: address opposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right suffrage to woman: written for presentation to the Committee on Woman Suffrage . Senate Document (United States, Congress, Senate), 63rd Congress, 1st session, no.160.1913.
  • The Montresore. Great opera in 2 acts (together with Willy Redl ). Vienna, Leipzig 1914.
  • The petroleum king. Roman from Galicia . Detmold 1914.
  • Modern body training for women and girls. A guide to health and beauty (together with Karl Eisenbach ). Munich 1927.
  • Isibunu, the poison of the Malain . 1935
  • The Chinese wedding chest . 1935.

literature

  • Fritz Abshoff: Forming Spirits. Our important poets and writers of the present and the past in characteristic autobiographies as well as collected biographies and pictures. Volume 1, p. 81, Berlin 1905
  • Günter Helmes : Inner colonization and culture (s) struggle. Annie Bock's novel "The Train to the East" (1898) and the continental Germanization policy of the German Empire . In: LiLi 24, no. 95 ( The political> right < ). Göttingen 1994, pp. 10-29. ISSN 0049-8653.
  • Richard Frank Krummel : Nietzsche and the German spirit. Vol. II: Expansion and impact of Nietzsche's work in the German-speaking area from the year of death to the end of the First World War . Berlin 1998, p. 157f. ISBN 978-3110160758 .
  • Sophie Pataky : Lexicon of German women of the pen . Complete new typesetting of both volumes in one book. Edited by Karl-Maria Guth . Berlin 2014, p. 70. ISBN 978-1496061652 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JP Wearing: The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel . 2nd ed. London 2014, p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8108-9293-4
  2. ↑ For all the following information cf. Brümmer: Lexicon (see "Literature"), p. 123.
  3. ↑ Brümmer: Lexicon (see "Literature"), p. 123.
  4. ↑ Helmes: Inner Colonization (see "Literature"), p. 29.
  5. ↑ Neumann-Hofer: Woman Suffrage (see "Works").
  6. ↑ See, for example, Carl W. Ackerman : Germany has been preparing her people for war with the United States since Lusitania sinking . Indianapolis News , Indianapolis, Marion County, March 29, 1917, p. 7. Copyright, 1917, the Tribune Association (the New York Tribune ), and the article Strong Arguments made preparing German mind to justify break with the United States in T he Sckaxton Republican , March 29, 1917, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Neumann-Hofer, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann-Hofer, Annie Cecilia (full name); Bock, Annie; Bock, Annie Cecilia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer, translator and concert pianist of American origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH after 1934