Gertrud von Sanden

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Gertrud Ida Marie von Sanden (also under the pseudonyms Mervyn Brian Kennicott and MB Kennicott ; born September 10, 1881 at Schloss Tussainen , East Prussia ; † February 23, 1940 in Tübingen ), Hamer married from 1907 to approx. 1926 , was a German writer .

Life

Gertrud von Sanden came from the East Prussian noble family von Sanden . She went to Great Britain in 1897 , where she attended a horticultural college. In 1907 she married the British officer Aston Hamer. The marriage produced two daughters were born, of whom the younger the 1912 born later writer Isabel Hamer was. After a stay in India , Gertrud Hamer returned to Great Britain in 1914. After her divorce, she resided permanently in Germany from 1927 , and from 1934 she lived with her partner Gertrud Bäumer in Gießmannsdorf in Silesia . She died of breast cancer in February 1940 while on treatment in Tübingen.

Gertrud von Sanden published two novels under the pseudonym "Mervyn Brian Kennicott" in the 1930s . With her letter novel Das Herz ist wach , first published in 1934 by the Wunderlich Verlag of her future son-in-law Hermann Leins , she achieved a bestseller that reached a total circulation of over 250,000 copies by the 1960s . The wide-ranging family saga Die Geschichte der Tilmanöhne , published in 1937, was reissued several times until the 1950s .

Works

  • The heart is awake , Tübingen 1934
  • The story of the Tilman sons , Tübingen 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Schaser: Helene Lange and Gertrud Bäumer. A political community . 2nd edition, Böhlau: Köln u. a. 2010, p. 196. ISBN 978-3-412-09100-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanden, Gertrud von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sanden, Gertrud Ida Marie von; Hamer, Gertrude Ida Marie (married name); Kennicott, Mervyn Brian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Tussainen Castle , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1940
Place of death Tübingen