Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu

Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu

Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu (born March 17, 1846 in Frankfurt an der Oder , † December 22, 1902 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German writer . She also wrote under the pseudonyms G. von Beaulieu and Gertraut von Beaulieu .

Life

She was born in 1846 as the daughter of a Privy Councilor. Its ancestors had moved from Touraine to Germany. Beaulieu came to Berlin in 1867 , where she attended the Tausig Music Institute at the request of her father and was instructed in music theory by Carl Friedrich Weitzmann . Through an American friend, Beaulieu worked for the Melbourne Argus and London Hour newspapers and was responsible for the translation of political correspondence into English. She translated and edited English-language novels for German-language newspapers such as the Post , Tribüne and the Berliner Tageblatt .

Several trips to Italy followed from 1874 to 1878 , as she also worked as a correspondent for the Roman Capitano Francassa . Beaulieu processed her trips to Italy in Italian travel letters that appeared in German newspapers. During her travels Beaulieu had met a man from northern Italy, to whom she had become engaged in Rome . A wedding did not take place because her fiancé died of a heart attack shortly before the marriage .

From 1880 Beaulieu traveled to France and Greece , visited Switzerland and finally Spain in 1883 . The impressions of her trip to Spain can be found in her first book Spanish Spring Days, which appeared in 1885. Beaulieu kept returning to Berlin, was editor of Humorist Germany from 1889 to 1893 and, from 1892, worked for the humorous magazine Die Fisimatenten . In 1902 she moved to Spandau and died there in December 1902 at the age of 56.

In her works, Beaulieu mostly dealt with the Berlin petty bourgeoisie in a humorous and satirical way, but also critically included the social aspects of the workers in her work. In her oeuvre she also addressed the question of women several times. In works such as Old and New People , which contrasted the female figure of the 19th with that of the early 20th century, "she [...] already takes up themes that later dominated the time novels of the twenties."

Works

• Spanish spring days. A hike on the Iberian Peninsula. Hoffmann & Ohnstein, Leipzig 1885.
• Long hair, frizzy mind. Novellas. Schottlaender, Breslau 1887.
• Serfs. Novellas. Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig 1889.
• New Berlin. What Mrs. Guticke experienced in the Reich capital. (With a foreword by Julius Stettenheim ). Schottlaender, Breslau / Leipzig 1890
• The feminine Berlin. Images from today's social life. Fischer, Berlin 1892.
• His brother. Novella. Fischer, Berlin 1898. Collection Fischer 5.
• Old and new people. Novel. Schottlaender, Breslau 1901.
• Big city originals. Humorous-satirical sketches. Reclam, Leipzig 1903.

literature

• Beaulieu, G (married) from . In: Petra Budke , Jutta Schulze (Hrsg.): Writers in Berlin from 1871 to 1945. An encyclopedia on life and work . Orlanda, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929823-22-5 , pp. 44-45.
• Beaulieu, Gertraut Chales de . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 153-154.
• Chales de Baulieu, Gertraut . In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. A lexicon . Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , (Repertories on the History of German Literature 9), p. 49.
• Beaulieu, Gertraut Châles de . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 44 ( digitized version ).
• Beaulieu, Gertraut Châles de . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 479 ( digitized version ). - Addendum
• Heinrich Gross, German poets and writers in words and pictures , Volume III, 1885, p.226ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Budke / Schulze, p. 45.