Ellen Delp
Ellen Delp (also Ellen Delmari-Delp , actually Ellen Krafft-Delmari , née Schachian ; born February 9, 1890 in Leipzig ; died February 25, 1990 on the island of Reichenau ) was a German writer and actress .
Delp studied literature and art history in Leipzig, Vienna and Munich and since then had access to artistic circles, for example around Max Reinhardt . As the "daughter of choice" of Lou Andreas-Salomé , she became known to numerous personalities from their environment, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Thomas Mann , Gerhart Hauptmann , Sigmund Freud and Rainer Maria Rilke . Through Rilke, she met the writer Regina Ullmann around 1914 , with whom she had a lifelong friendship and whose biographer she became. She was also friends with Käthe Braun-Prager and Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke.
As a writer, she became known as the author of poems and novels. Your estate is in the Munich Monacensia .
Works
- Retribution from angels and other narratives. Freiburg i. Br./München 1952. Further edition: Retribution through angels. Novella. Salzburg 1968.
- In the face of summer. Novella. Alber, Freiburg i. Br./Munich 1955
- Regina Ullmann. A biography of the poet. With letters, pictures and facsimiles published for the first time from the possession of Regina Ullmann and Ellen Delp. Benziger, Einsiedeln u. a. 1960.
- The flower basket. Novella. Freiburg i. Br./Munich 1968.
- The dreaming. Novella. Freiburg i. Br./München 1971.
- Letters
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Correspondence with Regina Ullmann and Ellen Delp. Ed. Walter Simon. Frankfurt a. M. 1987.
literature
- Rudolph Binion : Mrs. Lou. Princeton / New Jersey 1968.
- Bernhard Iglhaut: Delp, Ellen. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, vol. 2, p. 587 f.
- Inge Meidinger-Geise : Almost a legend. In: Die Horen, Vol. 30 (1985), No. 1, pp. 200-204.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ellen Delp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ellen Delp in the literature portal Bavaria
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delp, Ellen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delmari-Delp, Ellen; Krafft-Delmari, Ellen (married name); Schachian, Ellen (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1990 |
| Place of death | Reichenau Island |