Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff
Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff , born Freiin Bachoff von Echt (born May 6, 1878 at Dobitschen Castle near Schmölln , † December 5, 1963 in Altenburg ) was a German poet .
Life
Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff was born as Freiin Bachoff von Echt on May 6, 1878 at Dobitschen Castle. In her early years she traveled with her parents to various countries, including Palestine, Egypt, France, Italy and Switzerland, and received private lessons. She spent two years at the Magdalenenstift in Altenburg. In 1897 Curt von Watzdorf married .
Von Watzdorf-Bachoff lived in Munich from 1899 , because her husband was called there as the Saxon envoy. At that time, she was in contact with some outstanding personalities of the time, including the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner and the later Reich Foreign Minister, Walther Rathenau , who was murdered in 1922 . The acquaintance with von Suttner was seen in connection with the beginning engagement of Watzdorf-Bachoffs for the peace and women's movement. Their daughter Marie Rose was born in 1898 and Jutta in 1900.
In 1904 she moved to Weimar . It was around this point that her actual poetic work began. Here, too, she made numerous acquaintances until 1927, including Harry Graf Kessler , Ida Boy-Ed , Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche , Henry van de Velde and Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven. The marriage with Curt von Watzdorf, which was burdened by several affairs of the husband, was divorced in 1911 after fourteen years.
In 1927 she finally moved to Altenburg, where she lived in the Pohlhof .
She rejected the Nazi takeover of power in 1933. In the Weimar Republic von Watzdorf-Bachoff was a member of the liberal and state-sponsoring German Democratic Party and, from 1933, was involved in the Confessing Church , which stood in opposition to National Socialism.
After the end of the Second World War , she became involved in the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 in the newly created GDR . She worked in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany and in the Democratic Women's Association of Germany and became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany . In 1948 the city of Altenburg granted her honorary citizenship.
She died in Altenburg in 1963 at the age of 85 and was buried in the city cemetery.
Honors
- 1948: Honorary citizen of the city of Altenburg
Works
- Between Spring and Autumn , Poems, 1909
- The year. Lyrical diary sheets , 1911
- Maria and Yvonne , Roman, 1914
- Nachklang , poems, 1921
- Weimar's Park. Lyrical Thoughts and Walks , 1925
- The crystal gate. Last poems , 1928
- In the evening light , poems, 1948
- Bernhard von Lindenau 1779–1854 , commemorative speech, 1954
- In the change and in the transformation of time , ed. by Reinhard Dörries, 1997
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watzdorf-Bachoff, Erika von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Schmölln |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1963 |
| Place of death | Altenburg |