Frieda von Richthofen

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Frieda von Richthofen in 1950

Frieda Freiin von Richthofen (born August 11, 1879 in Metz , † August 11, 1956 in Taos ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin von Richthofen (married Frieda Weekley, later Frieda Lawrence) was born on August 11, 1879 in Metz . Her father was Friedrich Carl Louis Ernst Emil von Richthofen (1845–1915), an engineer in the German army, her mother Anna Elise Lydia, nee. Marquier (1851-1930).

Frieda married the British professor Ernest Weekley (1865-1954) on August 29, 1899 , with whom she had three children, Charles Montague (* 1900), Elsa Agnes Frieda (* 1902) and Barbara Joy (* 1904). During her marriage to Weekley, she translated Schiller's ballads and Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tales into English.

It was primarily through her older sister Else von Richthofen (1874–1973), who married Edgar Jaffé in 1902 , that Frieda came into contact with intellectuals and writers, including the sociologists and economists Max and Alfred Weber , the psychoanalyst Otto Gross and the writer Fanny Reventlow .

In 1912 she met her husband's student DH Lawrence and fell in love with him. She left her husband and children and first went to Metz with Lawrence. After their divorce from Weekley, Frieda and Lawrence married in 1914. Life with Lawrence was not easy: Lawrence's health was compromised as a result of tuberculosis , and his writing income was low. They moved from one place to another until they finally located in Taos ( New Mexico settled). After Lawrence's death in Vence (France) on March 2, 1930, Frieda returned to Taos. On October 31, 1950, she married Angelino Ravagli .

Frieda Lawrence died in Taos on her 77th birthday.

She was a distant relative of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen .

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literature

  • Annabel Abbs: Frieda: The Original Lady Chatterley. Two Roads, London 2018, ISBN 978-1529300185 .
  • Janet Byrne: A Genius for Living. A Biography of Frieda Lawrence. Bloomsbury, London 1995, ISBN 0-7475-2738-5 .
  • Jacqueline Gouirand-Rousselon: Frieda von Richthofen, muse de DH Lawrence. Autremont, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86260-755-X .
  • Martin Green: Else and Frieda - the Richthofen sisters. Piper, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-492-22323-0 .
  • Rosie Jackson: Not me, but the wind. The Secret Life of Frieda Lawrence. Goldmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-43200-6 .
  • Kirsten Jüngling, Brigitte Roßbeck: Frieda von Richthofen. Biography. Ullstein, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-30416-8 .
  • Frieda Lawrence: The Memoirs and Correspondence. Ed. by EW Tedlock. New York, NY: Button 1964
  • Frieda Lawrence: Only the wind ... Berlin: Verl. Die Rabenpresse 1936
  • Robert Lucas: Frieda von Richthofen. Your life with DH Lawrence, the poet of "Lady Chatterley". Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-21356-5 .
  • Brenda Maddox: The Married Man. A Life of DH Lawrence. Mandarin, London 1995, ISBN 0-7493-9079-4 .
  • Lois Madison: A Catalog of the Frieda Lawrence Manuscripts in German at The University of Texas. In: The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin. NS 1973, Dec., No. 6, pp. 86-105
  • John Turner: The Otto Gross - Frieda Weekley Correspondence. Transcribed, transl., And ann. by John Turner with Cornelia Rumpf-Worthen and Ruth Jenkins. In: DH Lawrence Review. Vol. 22, 1990, no. 2, pp. 137-227

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personal data
SURNAME Richthofen, Frieda von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richthofen, Frieda Freiin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1956
Place of death Taos