Elsa Plessner

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Elsa Plessner

Elsa Plessner , married. Ginsburg ( August 22, 1875 in Vienna - May 1, 1932 in Alicante ) was an Austrian writer with Jewish roots.

Life

She came in 1875 (and not, as is often wrongly claimed, 1877) as Elisabet Plessner, daughter of the journalist and timber merchant Louis Plessner († September 18, 1895, at the age of 48) and the future singer and actress Clementine Plessner , née. Folkmann in Vienna on the world. In 1903 she married the medical student Wilhelm Ginsberg (born Berlin , June 6, 1880–1960) in Vienna . Their son Ludwig Julius was born on March 6, 1904, and their daughter Elisabet Ginsberg was born in 1908, in the same year as his doctorate. It is possible that a divorce occurred as a result, Wilhelm is likely to have married Marcelle Louise Camille Vyt (1889, Gand -?) And had two children with her, Rudolf and Franz Ginsberg.

Artistic creation

In the beginning, supported by Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Bahr , among others , the first texts appeared in various magazines from 1896, including Die Zeit , Das Magazin für Litteratur und der Gesellschaft . In the text The Glass Cage , a girl is locked up in a garden and watches the street of life. She fails to break through the prevailing constraints that provide women with the role of observation. Even a man who falls in love with her just wants her to have a clean dress so that she stays forever in the cage that she could actually break. This also makes her feminist perspective clear, which already anticipates moments from The Wall by Marlen Haushofer . In addition to the short story collection The Glass Cage , which gathers the early works, two plays appeared. Obviously she was still active in literature later, because on January 16, 1916 Schnitzler wrote in his diary: “Las Nm. a bad book by Fr. Plessner, Mscrpt. sent from Munich , with an imaginary letter. In the film May we be silent? by Richard Oswald , 1926, Else Plessner is on the list of actors. It is not clear whether it is the same person.

Works

  • Shadow. A journal sheet . In: Liebelei. A Viennese magazine . No. 7 (March 1, 1896), p. 143 f
  • Waiting. In: Das Magazin für Litteratur , Vol. 66, No. 29, July 24, 1897
  • Why. In: Das Magazin für Litteratur, Vol. 67, No. 39, September 30, 1989, Col. 926-928.
  • The glass cage. In: Die Zeit , Vol. 12, No. 149, August 7, 1897
  • Baby . In: Society . Edited by MG Conrad and Hans Merian. Leipzig: Hermann Haacke. 13 (1897), Fourth Quarter, Issue 10, pp. 79-83
  • The new teacher . Novella. In: The magazine for literature . 69th Volume, No. 10 (March 10, 1900), Col. 251-256, No. 11 (March 17, 1900), Col. 276-282
  • The glass cage . Sketches and short stories. Berlin and Leipzig: L. Weiß 1901
  • The dishonorable . Drama 1901
  • The first chapter . Play in 3 acts. Berlin-Friedenau 1910

Secondary literature

Web links

Wikisource: Elsa Pleßner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Die Presse, 1895-09-19, page 11. In: anno.onb.ac.at. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Birth entry. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt, 1903-04-22, page 21. In: anno.onb.ac.at. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ birth book. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
  5. ↑ There are three letters from her in Bahr's estate in the Theatermuseum Wien : July 27, 1897, January 29, 1901, and February 6, 1901.
personal data
SURNAME Plessner, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ginsberg, Elsa (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1932
Place of death Alicante