Betty Paoli

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Betty Paoli, lithograph by August Prinzhofer , 1847
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Betty / Betti Paoli , also: Betty / Betti Glück , actually: Barbara Elisabeth Glück (born December 30, 1814 in Vienna , † July 5, 1894 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian poet , novelist , journalist and translator .

Life

Betty Paoli is the pseudonym of Barbara Elisabeth (Anna) Glück, who was officially a daughter of the military doctor Anton Glück. However, as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach told several people in confidence, Paoli was a biological daughter of Prince Nikolaus von Esterházy from Hungary. Her birth mother made a fortune and later lost her property due to speculation. Paoli initially received a good education, but after the early death of his father and the loss of the fortune of the Belgian- born mother, she had to earn her own living at the age of 16, initially as a teacher in Russia and Poland. Her mother died in 1830. In 1841 Betty Paoli became a partner in the house of the philanthropist Josef Wertheimer (until 1843). There she met Adalbert Stifter, Franz Grillparzer, Nikolaus Lenau, Leopold Kompert, Hieronymus Lorm, Ernst von Feuchtersleben and Ottilie von Goethe. Her first book, Poems, was dedicated to Nikolaus Lenau. From 1843 until her death in 1848, she was a companion for Princess Maria Anna Schwarzenberg. With this she toured Holland and Germany, where she visited Bettina von Arnim . In 1843 Betty Paoli spent several months in Venice, where she trained in art history. After the Princess's death, Paoli tried to gain a foothold in Germany as a journalist, but returned to Vienna in the early 1850s and continued to work as a partner.

Her first poems appeared in Prague and Vienna newspapers in 1832/33, initially under the name Betti / Betty Glück . After returning to Vienna, she worked as a language teacher. Since then she has published her works under the pseudonym "Betty Paoli". She translated the works of Alexander Pushkin and Ivan Turgenev. In 1845 she wrote the poems "Romanzero" which were dedicated to Bettina von Arnim and in 1850 she wrote "New Poems". From 1855 until her death she lived as a freelance writer in the house of her friend Ida Fleischl , the mother of the physiologist Ernst Fleischl von Marxow , in Vienna. Her close relationship with the Jewish Fleischl family (later ennobled as Fleischl von Marxow) led to the assumption that Betty Paoli herself came from a Jewish family.

Betty Paoli, Marie Ebner von Eschenbach and Ida Fleischl von Marxow playing cards (from left to right).
Burial place of Betty Paoli

Paoli worked as a journalist for the newspapers Lloyd and Presse and wrote theater, book and exhibition reviews. When Heinrich Laubes was director , she worked (under the name Branitz) as a translator of French salon pieces for the Burgtheater . Paoli and Fleischl-Marxow later became art-critical advisors to the writer Marie Ebner von Eschenbach .

With sensitive poems and critical essays, Betty Paoli became an important figure in the early women's movement . Her poems were highly appreciated by her contemporaries. Adalbert Stifter judged her volume of poems After the Thunderstorm : "Woman is genius through and through, and all that is missing is calm and prudence". For Grillparzer she was “Austria's first lyric poet”, for Hieronymus Lorm in 1847 she was “the greatest German poet”. She also published several short stories and was a gifted essayist.

On September 15, 1872, the Vienna City Theater was opened with a prologue written by Paoli and performed by Rosa Frauenthal (1852–1912) .

Because of a nervous ailment that had tormented her for years, Paoli had gone to Baden (which she had known since the early 1840s) for a cure from mid-May 1894. In the Albrechtsgasse 23, near Weilburg Castle , they lived in a garden shed, where it operates in the early hours of July 5, 1894, already in agony , a paralysis of the heart died.

Betty Paoli died on June 5th at the age of 78 in Baden (Lower Austria). Paoli rests in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 0, row 1, number 15). At the funeral on July 7, 1894, among others, Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) and Ottilie Bondy (1832–1921) presented obituaries.

In 1930 the Paoliweg in Vienna- Hietzing was named after her.

Betty Paoli's first poems are called Poems (1841), followed by New Poems (1850), Lyrical and Epic (1855), Latest Poems (1870) and   Last Poems (1895).

A sonnet from the latest poems :

Break of friendship.
Nessun maggior dolore.
Even if only difficult, but it can be twisted
When love breaks its fleeting vow on us.
We shouldn't with the spring of life
Does its scent and luster also disappear?
I know a worse, more painful feeling:
The friendship that once lighted our souls,
To stare into the dead face
And to find yourself lonely again in space.
Whatever else your heart lost in joys,
Compared with such tremendous woes
Every other cup shoots up high!
Only things that were fleeting were smashed there;
Here a divine died, and see with a shudder
I dare to destroy Ew'ges.

Work (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Betty Paoli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Online texts

Wikisource: Betty Paoli  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thimig, Hugo Thimig tells , Franz Hadamovsky (ed.), Böhlau, Graz-Köln 1962, p. 160
  2. ↑ a b J (akob) H (einrich) Hirschfeld :  Women's gallery. Betty Paoli. In:  The housewife. Sheets for house and business , supplement Der Damen-Salon, organ for all women's interests , No. 1/1877, September 22, 1877, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / hfb.
  3. ↑ Betty Glück:  Sensations at the end of a masked ball. In:  Allgemeine Theaterzeitung and original newspaper for art, literature, music, fashion and social life , No. 52/1833 (XXVI. Year), March 12, 1833, p. 1, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / thz.
  4. ↑ More on Ida Fleischl, see Wikidata
  5. ↑ Jewish Lexicon , Berlin 1927, Vol. IV / 1, Col. 773
  6. ↑ Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume II, p. 432
  7. ↑ More on Rosa Frauenthal, see Wikidata
  8. ^ Sigmund Kolisch:  Feuilleton. The opening of the city theater. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 2897/1872, September 17, 1872, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  9. ^ Paul Tausig :  Nikolaus Lenau's stay in Baden. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 29/1915 (XXXVI. Volume), April 10, 1915, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  10. ↑ † Betty Paoli. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt (No. 10727/1894), July 5, 1894, p. 2 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  11. ↑ Obituary: In pain, I give all friends and acquaintances (...) Betty Paoli (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 10729/1894), July 7, 1894, p. 15, top right (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp,
    Hedwig Abraham: Betty Paoli. Writer, 1814–1894 . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on June 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Betty Paoli
  13. ↑ Betty Paoli's funeral. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 10730/1894), July 8, 1894, p. 5, center left (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  14. ↑ Art Notes. (...) In the active Rosner'schen publishing bookstore (...). In:  Blätter für Theater, Musik und Kunst , No. 8/1872 (18th year), January 26, 1872, p. 32, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mtk.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1872, Franz von Dingelstedt, who was on the same stage and appointed to a ministerial commission, questioned her (as well as Robert Hamerling's ) request for a pension , since Paoli was no longer writing anything , she was lacking rich productive power . - See: Theater and Art News. A denunciation. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 2998/1872, December 28, 1872, p. 8, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp; Latest. (...) How Hofrath Dingelstedt criticizes .. In:  Morgen-Post , No. 352/1872 (XXII. Year), December 23, 1872, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / mop.
  2. ↑ She was also unable to leave her apartment on the second floor of the house at Habsburgergasse 5 , Vienna-Innere Stadt , without outside help . - See: † Betty Paoli. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10728/1894, July 6, 1894, p. 5, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
personal data
SURNAME Paoli, Betty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glück, Barbara Elisabeth; Paoli, Betti; Branitz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet, novelist, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1894
Place of death Baden near Vienna