Edith Landmann

Edith Landmann ( Edith Landmann-Kalischer ; born September 19, 1877 in Berlin , † July 23, 1951 in Basel ) was a German philosopher .

After she and her husband, the economist Julius Landmann , had initially had a lot of communication with Rudolf Borchardt , from around 1914 they began to approach the poet Stefan George and his circle .

She was the daughter of the Berlin banker Moritz Kalischer . She and her husband had three children, including the philologist Georg Peter Landmann and the philosopher Michael Landmann .

Major works

• Georgika , 1920 (George monograph, published anonymously)
• The transcendence of knowing . Georg Bondi, Berlin 1923

posthumously

• Conversations with Stefan George . Helmut Küpper formerly Georg Bondi, Düsseldorf / Munich 1963.
• The Doctrine of Beauty , 1952

literature

• Farmer, Edith. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 73-76.
• Korinna Schönhärl: "Like a flower that has frozen to death". Edith Landmann as a disciple of Stefan Georges . In: Bertram Schefold , Bruno Pieger (Ed.): Stefan George: Poetry - Ethos - State. Thoughts for a secret European Germany . Berlin 2010.
• Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon to life and work, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Edith Landmann in the catalog of the German National Library