Eliza will

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Eliza Wille , b. Gundalene Elizabeth Sloman (* 9. March 1809 in Itzehoe , Holstein ; † 23. December 1893 in miles ) was a German novel writer .

Life

Eliza Wille was the daughter of the Hamburg shipowner Robert Miles Sloman (senior) . Later she was happy to tell how she sat at the piano one evening in Paris in the company of Chopin and Liszt . Chopin then asked her for a poem to set to music. Through her cousin, the Hamburg lawyer Henry B. Sloman , she met the journalist François Wille , whom she married in 1845. As a result of the unsuccessful March Revolution of 1848 , they left Hamburg together to settle at Gut Mariafeld near Meilen on Lake Zurich after long journeys . Willes u. a. close connections to Richard Wagner , Mathilde Wesendonck , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Georg Herwegh . Adolf Frey , CF Meyer's biographer , later coined the term "Mariafeld Round Table". About her encounters with Richard Wagner, Eliza Wille published "Fifteen Letters Richard Wagner: Letters with Memories and Explanations" in Julius Rodenberg's Deutsche Rundschau in 1887 . A later book was published by her husband François Wille after her death.

Her first poem The Song of the Stranger Singer was published anonymously by Julius Campe in 1835 and was banned by the censors shortly afterwards because of alleged fanatics in Poland . Her poetry was published under her maiden name Eliza Sloman in 1836 , also by Julius Campe. Under the name of Eliza Wille, the novels Felicitas (Brockhaus, Leipzig 1850, 2 volumes) and Johannes Olaf (Brockhaus, Leipzig 1871, 3 volumes) as well as the collection of novels still lifes in turbulent times (Brockhaus, Leipzig 1878, 3 volumes) followed. While the novels Felicitas and Johannes Olaf mainly follow fictional motifs, still life tells of turbulent times and the like. a. Episodes from the life of her parents Robert M. Sloman (senior) and Gundalena Braren during the French period in Hamburg .

Eliza will was the mother of Ulrich Wille , the general of the Swiss army in the First World War . The Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach was her great-granddaughter.

Works

  • (Anonymous): The song of the strange singer (Hoffmann and Campe, 1835)
  • Sloman, Eliza: The song of the strange singer (Hoffmann and Campe, 1836 [2nd ed.])
  • Sloman, Eliza: Seals (Hoffmann and Campe, 1836)
  • Wille, Eliza: Felicitas (Brockhaus, 1850, 2 volumes)
  • Wille, Eliza: Johannes Olaf (Brockhaus, 1871, 3 volumes)
  • Wille, Eliza: Still life in turbulent times (Brockhaus, 1878, 3 volumes)
  • Wille, Eliza: "Fifteen Letters Richard Wagner: Letters and Memories and Explanations" in: Deutsche Rundschau , 1887
  • Wille, Eliza: Fifteen letters from Richard Wagner. Along with memories and explanations. (Paetel, 1894)

literature

  • Belart, Hans:  Richard Wagner's relationship with Francois and Eliza Wille . Dresden: Reissner, 1914.
  • Jenssen, Christian: Light of love: life paths of German women . Hamburg, Broschek & Co., 1938.
  • Podewils, Hildegard von: Known - Unknown: Women on the edge of history . Dresden: Müller, 1941.
  • Jenssen, Christian: The silent fame. Twelve portraits of women . Lübeck, Wildner 1947.
  • Helbling, Carl: Mariafeld . From the history of a house . Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1951.
  • Jenssen, Christian: Fateful companions of great men. Praise the women . Berlin / Darmstadt, German Book Association, 1954.
  • Doss, Anna v .: A visit to Mariafeld in 1871 . Mariafeld: self-published in 1976
  • CF Meyer's correspondence: Francois and Eliza Wille (1869–1895), 1999
  • Adolf Frey :  Will, Eliza . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 255-257.
  • Christian Baertschi: Will, Eliza. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna v. Doss: A visit to Mariafeld in 1871 . Self-published, Mariafeld 1976.
  2. ^ Adolf Frey: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. His life and works . Cotta, Stuttgart 1900.
personal data
SURNAME Will, Eliza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sloman, Gundalene Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1893
Place of death miles