Else Ernst
Else Ernst (née Else Apelt, widowed Else von Schorn; born on August 26, 1874 in Weimar ; died on June 7, 1946 in Graz ) was a German writer, translator and illustrator. She wrote fairy tales, for which she also created book decorations and illustration, as well as often tales reaching into the supernatural and dreamlike. She also translated from English ( William Makepeace Thackeray ) and French ( Victor Hugo ).
She was the daughter of the classical philologist and Plato translator Otto Apelt and the older sister of the lawyer, politician and Bremen Senator Hermann Apelt . In her second marriage, she was the third wife, widow and estate administrator of Paul Ernst, who died in 1933 . From 1925 she lived with her husband at St. Georgen Castle in Austria, near which she was buried on the Johannishügel.
Works
- Pictures and stories from the life of the Kerfe. Poised, designed, drawn on the stone and colored by Else Ernst. Schumann, Munich 1923.
- The white poodle. Poised, designed, drawn on the stone and colored by Else Ernst. Schumann, Munich 1928.
- The haunted house in Lithuania. Novella. Neff, Berlin 1933.
- Incidents in the rose moon. Novel. Neff, Berlin 1934.
- The new moon night. Fairy tale. Stollberg, Merseburg 1936.
- Circus Blinz. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1942.
- The crown and the chain. Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1942.
- The missing heiress. Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1943.
- The man from over there. Wiener Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1944.
- Life with the poet Paul Ernst on the Einödhof Sonnenhofen near Königsdorf in Upper Bavaria 1918 to 1925. Renneritz, Sandersdorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-940684-01-1 .
literature
- Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, sv
- Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog 1937-1970. Edition 1973.
Web links
- Literature by and about Else Ernst in the catalog of the German National Library
- Else Ernst's estate in the Kalliope network
- Ernst, Else (Elisabeth); born Apelt, married von Schorn. In: biographien.ac.at. Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ernst, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ernst, Cornelie Emilie Elisabeth (full name); Apelt, Cornelie Emilie Elisabeth (maiden name); von Schorn, Else (married name); Otto, Else (pseudonym); Werner, August (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1946 |
| Place of death | Graz |