Dora Eleonore Behrend

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Dora Eleonore Behrend (born June 1, 1877 in Preußisch Arnau , Kr. Königsberg , † after 1945 ) was a German writer .

Life

Dora Eleonore Behrend was born in Arnau in 1877 as the daughter of the landowner Raimund Behrend from Danzig and his wife Martha (1841–1912), daughter of the banker Rudolph Oppenheim . It was owned by Gut Arnau, which had previously belonged to Theodor von Schön . Behrend grew up with her two brothers in well-off circumstances. First she studied painting in Munich . Then she went to Berlin , where she lived in the house of the doctor Ernst von Leyden , a brother-in-law of her mother. There she devoted herself to studying music. After that she returned to East Prussiaback. She did not get married, but did adopt an orphan. It was a baby girl whom she had met in 1914 during a visit to the stock exchange cellar in Königsberg , which served as refugee accommodation , where it had been given by his brother after the death of his parents. After Behrend's father died, her brother inherited the Arnau estate, but also soon died. On the day of his funeral, the house burned down and the estate was sold. From her inheritance, Behrend bought the small Lauth estate on the Lauther See. She lived both on this property near Königsberg and at times also in Königsberg itself. It was only during this time that she recognized her talent as a writer.

In 1926 Dora Eleonore Behrend made her debut with the novel The Holy . Thereafter, numerous other books appeared in various established publishers, which were popular with the contemporary audience and belonged to the upscale entertainment literature. The best-known were the story Der Leutnant und die Wiesenschnarre (1936) and the novel Rose from Werder (1940). Her novel Spätsonne was last published in 1942 . Frieda Magnus-Unzer praised Behrend's works, saying that they were “full of spirit and enjoyment of life, full of strong conflicts and daring decisions”. Since she was partly of Jewish origin, she lived in fear with the rise of National Socialism . “Her half-Jewish origins darkened her last years.” She fell ill with a serious mental disorder and died soon after Germans had fled and were expelled from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 . The exact date of her death is not known.

Works

  • The Saint. The novel of a childhood friendship. (Roman) Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin 1926.
  • The house of Tartinia and its end. (Novel). Brunnen-Verlag Karl Winckler, Berlin 1927.
  • The scattered. (Novel). Brunnen-Verlag Bischoff, Berlin 1933.
  • Castles of the East. (Sketches) Graefe and Unzer, Königsberg 1934.
  • The lieutenant and the meadow snare. (Narrative). S. Fischer, Berlin 1936.
  • The avenue. (Novel). Schünemann, Bremen 1939.
  • Sabine Grunelius. (Novel). Union, Stuttgart 1937.
  • The burning summer. (Novel). Schünemann, Bremen 1938.
  • Nikola. Vobach, Leipzig 1940.
  • Rose from Werder. Roman of the Biedermeier period. Pustet, Salzburg 1940.
  • The sunken city. Jura and the swans. Two novels. Schünemann, Bremen 1940.
  • The trip to Rheinsberg. (Novella). Steirische Verl. Anst., Graz 1942.
  • Luise Irving. The fate of a woman. (Novel). Keyser, Erfurt 1942.
  • Late summer. (Novel). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 1942.
  • Late sun. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 1942.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor von Schön, Landsitz Preußisch-Arnau ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuratorium-arnau.net
  2. ↑ a b Frieda Magnus-Unzer: Two East Prussian novelists: Dora Eleonore Behrend and Adda von Königsegg. In: Ostpreußenblatt 15, episode 46, 1964, p. 7.
  3. ↑ Kurt Forstreuter: Behrend, Dora Eleonore In: Old Prussian Biography. Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 859.
  4. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  5. ^ Kurt Forstreuter : Behrend, Dora Eleonore , in: Old Prussian Biography. Marburg / Lahn 1975, p. 860
  6. ^ Wilhelm Kosch, Heinz Rupp, Carl Ludwig Lang (eds.): Behrend, Dora Eleonore In: German Literature Lexicon. Volume 2, Bern 2001, p. 170.
  7. ↑ Castles of the East (GoogleBooks)
  8. ^ Behrend, Dora Eleonore In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Saur, Munich 1943, p. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Behrend, Dora Eleonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Arnau , district of Königsberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1945