Elsabeth Meinhard

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Elsabeth Meinhard , also Elisabeth Meinhard (born August 29, 1887 as Elisabeth Krauss , † 1937) was a German writer.

Life

She grew up in Munderkingen in Upper Swabia and moved with her family to Strasbourg in 1912 , where she began studying at the university there. After the First World War , she was quite successful in literary terms, especially with her novel Das Donauhaus , which had several editions from 1918 and in which she described the history of her family in Munderkingen in an autobiographical manner. In 1919 and 1920 she published poems in the magazines Die Sichel und Romantik . The following poem appeared in Die Sichel in 1920 and can be considered typical of the pathos and color-saturated metaphor intoxication of many female poets of the time, since the first line was chosen as the title of an anthology of expressionist female poets:

The voice from the dark

In red shoes the sun dances to death at the edge of the night.
The red shoes are made of my dead dreams.
Blue and yellow gates break open in the dim rooms.
I feel as if I had to foam my yearning soul in space.
Only he dared to live who has no limit in himself,
And who lives equally blissfully in man and animal and leaf.

A voice stands in the dark like a veiled light.
The face of the flowering trees lies on her blue knees.

She lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and after 1934 in Stuttgart .

Works

  • Between day and dark. Poems. Eckardt, Leipzig 1914.
  • The Donauhaus. Novel. Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1918.
  • Maria. Poems. Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1919.
  • From a singing heart. A marriage in letters. Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1919.
  • The mirror. Wir Verlag, Berlin 1922.
  • The blessed fool. Novel. Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1923.
  • The mother. Poetry. Dresden 1927.

literature

  • Hartmut Vollmer (ed.): The sun dances its way to death in red shoes. Poetry by expressionist female poets. Arche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7160-2164-4 .
  • Schwäbische Zeitung, Ehingen edition of September 27, 2019: It is part of the city's historical memory [1] , last paragraph

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The sickle. Vol. 2, Issue 11: Special Issue: Frauendichtung, November 1920, p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Meinhard, Elsabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinhard, Elisabeth (pseudonym); Krauss, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1887
DATE OF DEATH 1937