Carola from Crailsheim

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Carola von Crailsheim (born March 21, 1895 in Bayreuth ; died August 30, 1982 in Munich ) was a German writer and translator.

Life

She was the eldest of four daughters of the legal clerk Alexander Freiherr von Crailsheim and his wife Bettina von Hauch. Her great uncle was Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim . In line with her father's career, she attended schools in Passau , Augsburg ( Stettensches Institut ) and Munich ( Max-Josef-Stift ). At home, however, she felt in Rügland near Ansbach, where she also wrote her first novella.

Crailsheim studied German and French literature in Jena . In the meantime, she worked as a librarian at the Zeiss factory in order to relieve the family with her own salary. In Jena she also got to know Sophie Hoechstetter , who gave her instructions for a youth novel at the Dornburg Castle , which she lived in . She then worked as a serial novelist for various newspapers. In 1931 she met the couple Carl Olof Petersen and Elly Petersen in Dachau , in whose company she completed several works in the Moosschwaige Crailsheim.

From 1933 onwards, her assignments as a freelance writer dried up because she did not become a party member. During this time she wrote three historical novels Episode auf Schloß Rügland , Der Hofmarschall and Ein Franzose Find Germany , which are considered the high point of her literary work. When the war broke out, Crailsheim took over the management of the Moosschwaige for the Petersen couple, who had been deported to Sweden, and were initially able to conclude a usage contract with the city of Munich to offer artists opportunities to relax there. However , she could not prevent the evacuation and conversion of the house by the Reich Propaganda Ministry and its newly founded Deutsche Zeichenfilm GmbH . In the last years of the war she ran a mail order bookshop in Pappenheim , which she had taken over from Hoechstetter.

In 1945 she initially turned her back on Germany and together with Elly Petersen set up a new existence in Sweden. She became an accredited press correspondent and translated Swedish literature into German. In 1955 the two women moved to Munich, where they spent their twilight years together; Elly Petersen, 21 years her senior, died in 1965 at the age of ninety.

Works (selection)

  • Ours is waiting for joy (Stuttgart 1920)
  • Urphershofen Castle. With 19 text drawings by Lutz Ehrenberger (Kränzchen library). Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart; Berlin; Leipzig undated [approx. 1920]
  • Ursula Lind. Narrative. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1922
  • The badly defended heart. Novel. Dresden, Sybillen-Verlag 1922
  • Franconian towns and castles (1930)
  • In position. Brügel & Sohn, Ansbach 1930
  • Battle for Dorrit. Novel. Drei Quellen-Verlag, Königsbrück in Sachsen undated [approx. 1935]
  • Episode at Rügland Castle. A story about the young stone . Universitas, Berlin 1936
  • The court marshal. A novel from the time of Gustav Adolf . Universitas, Berlin 1938; Luther-Verlag, Witten 1952
  • A French finds Germany. A novel about Adelbert von Chamisso . Universitas, Berlin 1939
  • Good age of old. A book for old people. Langen Müller , Munich 1980
    • as a paperback under the title I really enjoy it. Thoughts and stories. Goldmann , Munich 1982
    • as a paperback under the title Friendship with Age. Ullstein , Berlin 1991
  • Time of fulfillment. Langen Müller, 1987
Translations
  • Alf Henrikson : Journey through A. With 137 drawings by Birger Lundquist . Translated from Swedish by Elly Petersen and Carola von Crailsheim. Klemm, Freiburg im Breisgau 1951

Awards

literature

  • Werner Dettelbacher: Carola von Crailsheim. In: Frauengestalten in Franken , ed. Inge Meidinger-Geise. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1985. pp. 234-237. ISBN 3-8035-1242-5 .
  • Hartmut Schötz : Memory of Carola von Crailsheim - for the 101st birthday. In: Frankenland 1996, p. 116 f. ( PDF, 366 kB )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More about Elly Petersen in: Thomas Raff (Ed.): The truth is often improbable. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 414 ( preview of the book on Google Books).
  2. ↑ Better an artist than a businessman. Article from October 18, 2014 about the work of Elly and Carl Olof Petersen in the Große Moosschwaige on merkur.de , accessed on March 29, 2020.
  3. ^ Advertisement for the book in the Internet Archive .
personal data
SURNAME Crailsheim, Carola von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crailsheim-Rügland, Carola Freiin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1982
Place of death Munich