Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld

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Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld (bourgeois Gertrude Cochrane de Alencar , née Schreitter von Schwarzenfeld , from 1918 Schreitter-Schwarzenfeld ; born June 21, 1906 in Prague , † 2000 ) was a German writer, illustrator, journalist and painter. As an author she published under the pseudonym Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld , as a painter she appeared under the name Gertrude de Alencar .

Live and act

Gertrude Schreitter von Schwarzenfeld was born as the daughter of Louise Schram (1886–1945) and the lawyer Karl Schreitter von Schwarzenfeld (1880–1968). Her grandfather was the Bohemian industrialist Adolf Schram . She received her education at a girls' secondary school in Prague. She took a few semesters of philosophy and German studies at the German University of Prague without a degree . Afterwards she occupied herself with painting and attended the Vienna Women's Academy from 1929 to 1931 . Gertrude Schreitter-Schwarzenfeld lived in Prague again until 1933 and worked as a set designer at the New German Theater . She also wrote for the Prager Tagblatt during this time .

In Prague she met the second Brazilian delegation secretary, José Cochrane de Alencar . Before he was transferred to Colombia , she married him in April 1933. She lived in Bogotá until 1936 , then in Vienna , from 1937 to 1941 in London and then until 1946 in Portugal . In addition to her duties as a diplomatic wife, she was active as a writer from then on, and she also illustrated her books, which contained travels and stays abroad. Gertrude Cochrane de Alencar lived in Paris between 1955 and 1958 and worked as a correspondent for Die Zeit . In 1959 she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany and settled in Dieburg . The marriage with José Cochrane de Alencar was divorced in 1964. Gertrude Cochrane de Alencar died at the age of 95 in 2000.

Publications (selection)

  • Distant Land: Pictures from Columbia , André, Prague 1938
  • Charles V, ancestor of Europe , Marion von Schröder, Hamburg 1954
  • The new Paris: It began with Dada , Marion von Schröder, Hamburg 1958
  • Rudolf II: The Saturnian Emperor , Callwey, Munich 1961
  • I live in Rue Madame , List, Munich 1962
  • Journey to the South of France , Marion von Schröder, Hamburg 1963
  • Cornwall, King Arthur's Land , Langen-Müller, Munich-Vienna, 1977

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld (1906–2000). An almost forgotten European author from Prague , In: Stifter Jahrbuch. New episode 33rd Adalbert Stifter Association, Munich 2019
  • Achim Schollenberger: Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld , In: magazine for culture in Würzburg and Gambach. number six, June 2005
  • Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Article by Gertrude von Schwarzenfeld in Die Zeit

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Pühringer:  Schram, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 513 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzenfeld, Gertrude von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Alencar, Gertrude; Schreitter von Schwarzenfeld, Gertrude; Schreitter-Schwarzenfeld, Gertrude; Cochrane de Alencar, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 2000