Gertrud von Brockdorff
Gertrud Baronin von Brockdorff (born June 9, 1893 in Magdeburg as Marie Alwine Gertrud Stendal ; † September 5, 1961 in Dörnick , Plön district ) was a German writer .
Life
As the daughter of the teacher Julius Karl Hugo Stendal (born November 22, 1868 in Ringelsdorf ) and the Alwine Emma Marie geb. Fischer (born December 19, 1869 in Magdeburg), Gertrud von Brockdorff studied at the universities in Munich , Berlin , Marburg and Kiel. In 1915 she married the philosopher Cay von Brockdorff . In 1919 she received her doctorate from the University of Kiel with a thesis on the history of literature to obtain a doctorate in philosophy . In 1923/24 she went on a study trip to the United States . She then lived as a freelance writer on the Sophienlust country estate near Plön until her death .
Gertrud von Brockdorff wrote numerous novels , which often deal with historical topics and are mainly to be assigned to the entertainment literature.
Works
- Buds , Leipzig-Gohlis 1910 (under the name Gertrud Stendal)
- The last Tsarina Alexandra Feodorowna , Berlin 1918
- The foreigner , Dresden 1919
- The home hymns of the Prussian provinces and their landscapes , Heidelberg 1919 (under the name of Gertrud Stendal)
- The love of Hannah v. Linsingen , Dresden 1919
- Rahel Delbanco , Berlin 1919
- The call of life , Dresden 1919
- The Danebrog , Berlin 1920
- The burning east , Berlin 1921
- The Faust in the West , Berlin 1921
- The right of the living , Leipzig 1921
- The adventures of Count Mellenheim , Leipzig 1922
- Blood rush , Leipzig 1922
- Berkehmen Castle , Dresden 1922
- Borderland! , Dresden 1923
- The big blow , Berlin 1923
- The kings of Moorloo , Leipzig-Stö. 1923
- Antje , Reutlingen 1925
- The shadow of Jenny Orsini , Berlin-Schöneberg 1926
- Magnus Rasmussen , Berlin-Schöneberg 1927
- The mark of longing , Berlin-Schöneberg 1928
- The path through the dark , Berlin-Schöneberg 1930
- You let the poor be guilty ... , Berlin-Schöneberg 1931
- Battle for Andrea , Berlin-Schöneberg 1932
- The gateway to power , Berlin-Schöneberg, 1932
- The clown Pizarro , Berlin-Schöneberg 1933
- The yellow face , Berlin-Schöneberg 1933
- The last spring , Berlin-Schöneberg 1933
- Katte , Berlin-Schöneberg 1934
- Lene , Berlin 1935
- Riddle about Claudine , Berlin 1935
- The man without a fatherland , Berlin 1936
- The twelfth , Berlin 1936
- The lady with the mask , Berlin 1937
- Die Rote Mütze , Berlin 1937 (filmed in 1938 under the title Heiratschwindler )
- Norah's last song , Berlin 1938
- Stephan Ruschka's passport , Berlin 1939 (under the name of Gertrud Stendal)
- Saturn goes over the sun , Berlin 1939 (under the name Gertrud Stendal)
- The Germans from Orchowo , Berlin 1940
- Teufelsdorn farm , Berlin 1941
- The Irish Lyre , Berlin 1941
- A Sunday in September , Berlin 1941
- Sable for Mamuschka , Berlin 1941
- Three days each time , Hamburg 1943
- Secret about Jan , Stuttgart 1952
- Second hand life , Bleckede Castle ad Elbe 1952
- Burning love - burning land , Südverlag, Munich (and Konstanz) 1953 (blurb: "Novel from modern Persia")
- One week in April , Munich [u. a.] 1954
- Eline chases after her nose , Berlin-Grunewald 1954
- Schlosshotel Hohenkamp , Düsseldorf 1956
- One evening in March , Düsseldorf 1960
- Jasmin in foreign gardens , Munich 1969
Film adaptations (selection)
- 1937: People without a fatherland
- 1938: marriage fraud
Web links
- Literature by and about Gertrud von Brockdorff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gertrud von Brockdorff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Text of the author's dissertation
Individual evidence
- ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874-1903 [database on-line], Registry Office Magdeburg Neustadt, Register Number 797/1893
- ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Marriage Register 1874-1923 [database on-line], Magdeburg Neustadt registry office, register number 276/1892
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brockdorff, Gertrud von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brockdorff, Gertrud Baroness von (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1893 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 1961 |
Place of death | Dörnick , Plön district |