Else Werkmann

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Else Werkmann (born Else Rutzen in Berlin in 1897 ; died in the 20th century) was an Austrian translator. She also published under the name Else Baronin Werkmann .

Life

Else Rutzen was a daughter of the industrialist Franz Rutzen and his wife Charlotte, nee. Schuberth. Her training included attending a secondary school for girls and language studies. She married the Austro-Hungarian officer Karl Werkmann , in 1917 after the accession of Charles I to his private secretary was appointed and on the day of his resignation nor the Baron was knighted. He remained in Karl's service and moved with him in March 1919 in his exile in Switzerland and then on to Madeira . Karl and Else Werkmann worked for the Legitimists in the Republic of Austria.

With the Nobility Repeal Act in Austria in April 1919, Else Werkmann lost the right to use the title of nobility, but she did not take this into account in her translations, which were published in Germany and Austria; they still appeared as Baroness or Freiin on.

Else Werkmann translated, partly together with her husband, contemporary political literature and memoirs from English and French into German. In addition, she has translated both youth books and a number of crime novels by Edgar Wallace , detective stories with Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle , and crime novels by Herbert Adams and Sax Rohmer . The crime novels were reprinted in their translation even after the Second World War.

Translations (selection)

Translation under the name Else Baronin Werkmann (1926)
  • Walter Frederick Morris: GB khaki or field gray. An eerie novel from the great war . Stuttgart: Verlag Dieck & Co., undated (1925)
  • Boni de Castellane : How I Discovered America. Memories . Berlin: Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1926
  • Edward Gray : Twenty-five Years of Politics, 1892–1916 . Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1926
  • Ernest Benn : Confessions of a Capitalist . Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1926
  • Walter Hines Page : Ambassador Walter H. Page's letters to Woodrow Wilson . Berlin: Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1926
  • George William Buchanan : My Mission in Russia . Berlin: Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1926
  • Valentin Almond Trunk : Hollywood. Moral novel from the world of film . Authorized translation from French. Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1927
  • Robert Louis Stevenson : The Black Arrow . Story from the time of the Wars of the Roses in England . Minden: JCC Bruns, 1927
  • William Robert Robertson : Soldiers and Statesmen 1914-1918 . Berlin: German Publishing Society for Politics and History, 1927
  • Jacques Lombard : We drift in night! Minden: JCC Bruns, 1927
  • Arthur Shadwell : The Collapse of Socialism . Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1927
  • Sidney Lee : Edward VII . Dresden: P. Aretz, 1928
  • JM Kenworthy : Before wars to come. Civilization at the crossroads . Introduction HG Wells . Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1928
  • Maurice Paléologue : Confidential discussions with the Empress Eugenie . Dresden: Aretz, 1928
  • Dorothy Caruso : The Life of Enrico Caruso. Memories . Dresden: P. Aretz, 1929
  • Emil Otto Hoppé : Romanticism of the Small Town. A voyage of discovery through old Germany . Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1929
  • Lucien Lévy-Bruhl : The soul of the primitive . From the French. Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1930
  • Charles Edward Callwell (Ed.): The Diaries of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson . Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1930
  • Edward William Polson Newman: Great Britain's Battle for Egypt . Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1930
  • Edward Mandell : The Supreme House's Confidential Documents . Stuttgart: Union, 1932
  • Blair Niles : Devil's Island . Munich: Three masks, 1932
  • Kiyoshi Kawakami : Japan speaks! Vienna: W. Braumüller, 1933
  • Herbert Vivian : Way of the Cross of an Emperor . Leipzig: Höger, 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werkmann, Else, Freiin von Hohensalzburg. In: Who is who: Lexicon of Austrian contemporaries. Vienna 1937.
personal data
SURNAME Werkmann, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werkmann, Else Baroness von; Rutzen, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century