Eleonore Lorenz

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Eleonore Lorenz (born May 30, 1895 in Dresden ; † July 11, 1949 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Lorenz was born in Dresden and learned to be a stenographer at Klemich's commercial school . She wrote poems that appeared in various newspapers, including the Literary World , the Column and in Westermann's monthly notebooks , and were published collectively from the 1930s onwards. For her collection of poems, Italian Chants , which appeared in 1940, she also translated Gaspara Stampa's chants into German.

During the time of National Socialism Lorenz was a successful poet and was considered one of the "most famous poets of the Reich". Her poems were printed among other things in the National Socialist monthly issues; her portrait, including a literary review, can also be found in the anthology Volkhaftigkeit der Zeit , published in 1941 . “She came to the public quite late in [literary] terms , so her work breathes maturity,” said the Zeitschrift für Deutschkunde in 1939. In 1943, the composer Fritz Karschner published his songs based on poems by Eleonore Lorenz for voice and piano and the Dresden composer Fritz Reuter wrote the cantata Gartenfreuden in 1961, based on the words of Eleonore Lorenz.

In 1938 Lorenz was awarded the Art Prize of the City of Dresden , which was first donated the year before . Today's critics regard her as a “religious-mystically inspired, German poet”.

Works

  • 1931: Akhen-Aton: a seal
  • 1938: Come divine fire!
  • 1940: Italian chants
  • 1941: German chants
  • 1943: Confession
  • 1944: God is power: sonnets

literature

  • Lorenz, Eleonora . In: Norbert Weiss, Jens Wonneberger: Poets, thinkers, literati from six centuries in Dresden . Die Scheune, Dresden 1997, ISBN 3-931684-10-5 , p. 122.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. according to: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. Historical Commission (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of the book industry . Volume 35. Booksellers Association, 2001, p. 103.
  2. ^ See Journal for German Studies . Volume 53, 1939, p. 491.
  3. ^ Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author: municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany (1926–1971) . deGruyter, Berlin 1994, p. 208.

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personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1949
Place of death Dresden