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Bertha Eckstein-Diener, 1902

Bertha Helene Diener , from 1898 Bertha Eckstein and Bertha Eckstein-Diener (born March 18, 1874 in Vienna , † February 20, 1948 in Geneva ), better known under her pseudonym Sir Galahad , was an Austrian writer and travel journalist. Her book Mothers and Amazons , the first cultural history focused on women , is considered a classic in matriarchal research .

Villa Aichelburg , Baden near Vienna

Life

Bertha Helene Diener came from a family of manufacturers and was trained as a senior daughter . In 1898, against the wishes of her parents, she married Friedrich Eckstein (1861–1939), a Viennese manufacturer and private scholar . Like her husband, she became a member of the Vienna Lodge of the Theosophical Society Adyar (Adyar-TG). The Ecksteins rented the St. Genois Schlössl (today: Villa Aichelburg ) in Baden near Vienna , Helenenstrasse 19-21 , in which they ran a salon. Her guests included Peter Altenberg , Karl Kraus , Adolf Loos and Arthur Schnitzler , who added the Ecksteinvilla and his son Percy (1899–1962), who was born there in 1899, to the plot of his 1911 drama Das weite Land .

In 1900 she met the wealthy Jewish doctor Theodor Beer (1866–1919), who lived on Lake Geneva , and had a relationship with him from 1903. In 1904 Bertha left her husband and son and embarked on her first long journeys, which took her to Egypt , Greece and England , among other places . In 1909 Eckstein therefore divorced. Beer was brought on a morality lawsuit in 1904, decided against him in 1905, which attracted some public attention. In 1910 she had another son, Roger Diener, whose father was Beer, and whom she placed in a foster family. Theodor Beer, who lost his professional and social position as a result of the court ruling and became impoverished due to the war, committed suicide in 1919 on the day of the auction of his villa in Lucerne. Roger first contacted his mother in 1936 - initially by letter - who then visited him in Berlin in 1938. Friedrich Eckstein died in 1939 at the age of 78.

Bertha Diener initially wrote under the pseudonym Ahasvera ("The Eternal Traveler"). However, she published her most famous works as Sir Galahad , after a table knight of King Arthur . In addition to her book publications, she wrote a number of articles for newspapers and magazines and translated three works by the American journalist and esoteric writer Prentice Mulford . Between 1914 and 1919 she wrote Conics of God , in which she criticized the situation of women during the founding period . From 1925 to 1931 she worked on Mothers and Amazons , a cultural history focused on women, which is based primarily on Bachofen's research .

She died in Geneva on February 20, 1948 - five weeks after an operation. Your last work on a cultural history of England remained unfinished.

In 2008, Bertha-Eckstein-Strasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after her.

Works

  • In the palace of Minos . Albert Langen , Munich 1913 (2nd edition 1924)
  • The conic sections of God . Roman, Albert Langen, Munich 1921 (2nd edition 1926, 3rd edition 1932)
  • Idiot guide through Russian literature. Dedicated to the backbone of the world . Albert Langen, Munich 1925
  • Mothers and Amazons. An outline of female realms . Albert Langen, Munich 1932
    • First from 1954 with the Non Stop-Bücherei (Berlin-Grunewald), then from 1981 with Ullstein (here with the subtitle Love and Power in the Women's Realm ) reissued as a paperback
  • Byzantium. About emperors, angels and eunuchs . Tal, Leipzig and Vienna 1936
  • Bohemond. A crusader novel . Goten-Verlag Herbert Eisentraut, Leipzig 1938
  • Silk. A little cultural history . Goten, Leipzig 1940 (under the name Helen Diner [sic!]) - (2nd edition 1944, 3rd edition 1949)
  • The happy hill. A Richard Wagner novel . Atlantis , Zurich 1943

literature

  • Sibylle Mulot-Déri : Sir Galahad. Portrait of a missing person . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-596-25663-1 .
  • Rudolf Werner Soukup (Ed.): The scientific world of yesterday. The winners of the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize 1865–1937 and the Richard Lieben Prize 1912–1928, A Chapter of Austrian History of Science in Short Biographies . Contributions to the history of science and science research, Volume 4, ZDB -ID 1416850-9 . Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2004, ISBN 3-205-77303-9 .
  • Lisa Fischer: Lina Loos or when the muse kisses himself . Second edition, anniversary edition. Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77611-6 .
  • Silvia Planer: The columnists of the “Neue Wiener Tagblatt” . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2010. - Full text online (PDF file; 1.12 MB).

Web links

Wikisource: Bertha Eckstein-Diener  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.parareligion.ch/sunrise/kellner.htm
  2. ↑ Planner: The columnists of the "Neue Wiener Tagblatt" , p. 124.
  3. ^ Rudolf Werner Soukup: Theodor Beer. 1866-1919. Researcher of the accommodation of the eye and the power of karma . In: Soukup: The scientific world of yesterday , pp. 89–96. - Text mostly online .
  4. ^ Karl Kraus : Subsequent to the Beer Trial . Vienna, November 30, 1905. In: textlog.de , accessed on December 31, 2012.
  5. ^ Fischer: Lina Loos , p. 63. - Text online .
personal data
SURNAME Cornerstone servant, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Servant, Bertha; Sir Galahad (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and travel journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1948
Place of death Geneva