Frida Strindberg-Uhl
Maria Friederike Cornelia "Frida" Strindberg-Uhl (born April 4, 1872 in Mondsee ; † June 28, 1943 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer , literary critic , founder of cabaret, translator and screenwriter .
Life
Frida Strindberg-Uhl was the daughter of Friedrich Uhl , a respected theater critic , novelist and editor-in-chief of the official Wiener Zeitung . She attended monastery schools in Gorizia , Bad Reichenhall , London and Paris for nine years . The language skills she acquired later came in handy as a translator.
In 1892 she went to Berlin as a literary correspondent for the Wiener Zeitung , where she met the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, 23 years her senior, in January 1893 and married on May 2, 1893 on Heligoland .
During the marriage, for financial reasons, she lived on one of her grandparents' farms in Dornach Castle in Saxen, or in a nearby house. Her husband also occasionally stayed in Saxen and Klam and was active as an author and painter. Their daughter Kerstin was born in 1894, and the divorce took place in 1897.
From a liaison with Frank Wedekind , she had a son, Friedrich Strindberg , who also grew up in Saxen.
Frida Strindberg died alone in the regional hospital in Salzburg and was buried in her birthplace Mondsee , where she had last lived.
Professional and artistic creation
Strindberg-Uhl worked as a translator for publishers in Vienna, including translating some pieces from a complete edition by Oscar Wilde , some as a first translation.
Strindberg-Uhl founded the first cabaret in London in 1912 in Soho, called The Cave of the Golden Calf, which was artistically designed by the avant-garde artists Percy Wyndham Lewis and Jacob Epstein . She brought Strindberg pieces to the stage, organized a reading by the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and a performance of Arnold Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire . In 1914, after her sudden departure for America, the club was closed.
After the outbreak of World War I , she moved to New York , where she made a living from lecture tours, including about August Strindberg. She wrote film scripts under the pseudonym Marie Eve.
Works
- Strindberg och hans andra hustru , 2 volumes, Stockholm 1933–34 (German-language edition under the title "Love, Sorrow and Time: An Unforgettable Marriage", Goverts, Hamburg / Leipzig 1936)
- If no, no! , August Strindberg and Frida Uhl: Correspondence 1893-1902, evaluated, edited and translated by Friedrich Buchmayr, Weitra 1993, ISBN 3-900878-91-9 .
- as audio book: August Strindberg, Frida Uhl: The abyss that engulfed us. Setting of a selection of the correspondence between August Strindberg and Frida Uhl . Kaleidophon Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810808-7-2 .
literature
- F. Buchmayr: Strindberg Frida. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 404 f. (Direct links on p. 404 , p. 405 ).
- Friedrich Buchmayr: Madame Strindberg or The Fascination of Boheme - A Biography of Frida Uhl , Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-3245-6
- Friedrich Buchmayr: The Other World - August Strindberg in Upper Austria , Linz 1993 (Literature in Stifter House 4)
- Against the ghosts that come from within: August Strindberg's marriage to Frida Uhl , in: Elisabethbühne Magazin No. 94, March 1995, pages 18-20
- Monica Strauss, Cruel Banquet: The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg , New York 2000.
- Herta Kratzer: "The improper daughters", portraits of women in Viennese modernism , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna
- Eckhard Wallmann (ed.): Strindberg's wedding on Helgoland. Letters, reports and pictures from the heyday of the seaside resort Helgoland , MK Verlag, Möckmühl 2000.
Web links
- University of Vienna
- Literature by and about Frida Uhl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marie Eve in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alfred Schiemer: A lot of love, a lot of suffering: Frida and August. In: Wiener Zeitung . April 20, 2007, accessed July 3, 2013 .
- Wolfgang Ludwig: From idyll to hell. In: Wiener Zeitung. August 14, 2012, accessed July 3, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Uhl at DNB.
- ↑ The Cave of the Golden Calf in the English language Wikipedia en: The Cave of the Golden Calf , see also: Local tip from The Shady old Lady's Guide to London .
- ^ Exploring 20th Century London, Clubs 1900 to 1950 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strindberg-Uhl, Frida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strindberg-Uhl, Maria Friederike Cornelia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, literary critic, founder of cabaret, translator and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mondsee |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |