Gertrud von Schlieben

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Gertrud Emily von Schlieben , married. Borngräber (born January 20, 1873 in Dresden ; † July 27, 1939 there ) was a German writer who wrote under the pseudonym Gerda von Robertus .

Life

Gertrud von Schlieben's grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

Gertrud von Schlieben was born in Dresden as the daughter of the officer Georg von Schlieben (1843–1906). She spent her childhood here and moved to Berlin at the age of ten , where she lived until 1893. She attended secondary schools for girls in both places . Due to her father's diplomatic activity as the Saxon representative at the Federal Council, she was also introduced to the Berlin court society and got to know numerous scientists, artists and nobles of her time personally. She herself turned to portraiture.

The family returned to Dresden in 1893, where they withdrew from social life over time. After his father's death in 1906, von Schlieben devoted himself to his first literary work. Her first volume of poetry was published in 1908.

In 1911 she married the writer Dr. Otto Borngräber . The marriage was divorced in 1913. Gertrud von Schlieben then took on her maiden name again. Between 1913 and 1914, Rudi Stephan set six of her poems to music under the title Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied .

Gertrud von Schlieben died in Dresden in 1939 and was buried in the Johannisfriedhof .

Works

  • 1908: From the tree of life (poems)
  • 1909: Silhouette (New Poems)
  • 1911: Songs of Songs to the Unknown
  • 1914: The golden ball and other fantasies and fairy tales
  • 1915: Happy and Freya: A wreath of war poems
  • 1916: War poems from the Sachsenlande 1914/1916, issue 6
  • 1917: The German confidence in victory: War poems from the Sachsenlande 1914/1917
  • 1918: Sun addiction. Belief in the sun
  • 1918: From Germany's fateful hours: November 1918 (Zeitgedichte)
  • 1919: Saint George's Sword (New Zeitgedichte)

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 8. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 151–152.
  • 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. 34.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE), Vol. 8 Plett - Schmidseder, Munich [u. a.]: Saur 1998, p. 676.
personal data
SURNAME Close, Gertrud von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiegen, Gertrud Emily von (full name); Borngräber, Gertrud; Robertus, Gerda von (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1939
Place of death Dresden