Gisela Etzel
Gisela Etzel , née Gisela Waltner , also Gisela Kühn-Etzel , (born March 31, 1880 in Kissingen , † 1918 in Bern ) was a German writer , poet and translator .
life and work
She attended school in Berlin and then went on numerous trips. In 1908 she married the writer Theodor Etzel , but the marriage broke up before 1914. In her early years she published in the magazine Kampf under the pseudonym Gisela Bogenhardt . She lived as a writer and translator in Munich , Paris and Berlin-Charlottenburg .
Gisela Etzel has translated literary texts from English, American and French into German. In addition to Edgar Allan Poe u. a. Honoré de Balzac , Oscar Wilde and Emily Brontë . Stefan Zweig appreciated her translation of the poetry of the French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and of John Keats ' poems .
Fonts
- Own texts
- From yurt and kraal. Stories of the natives from Africa and Asia . The harvest, Munich 1911
- The songs of Monna Lisa . Georg Müller, Munich 1912
- Is that love A girl's novel . Georg Müller, Munich 1917
- Translations (selection)
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Honoré de Balzac :
- The atheist's fair. Honorine. Pierre Grassou . Eißelt, Gross-Lichterfelde 1905 (as Gisela Bogenhardt)
- Eugenie Grandet. The marriage contract (= The Human Comedy , Volume 3). Insel, Leipzig 1908
- Philosophical stories (= The Human Comedy , Volume 15). Insel, Leipzig 1910
- Dark stories. Collection . 2 volumes. Georg Müller, Munich 1918
- Father Goriot (= The Human Comedy , Volume 11). Insel, Leipzig 1909
- Emily Brontë : The Sturmheidhof . Zeitler, Leipzig 1908
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore : Poems . In: Stefan Zweig: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. The life of a poet . Insel, Leipzig 1927
- Robert Smythe Hichens : The voice of the blood . Borngraves, Berlin 1917
- John Keats : Poems . Insel, Leipzig 1910
- Jules Michelet : The Women of the Revolution . Edited and translated by Gisela Etzel. With an introduction and remarks by Richard Kühn. Langen, Munich 1913
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Edgar Allan Poe :
- EA Poe's novels about love . Georg Müller, Munich 1908
- The gold beetle and other short stories . Georg Müller, Munich 1910
- King Pest and other short stories . Georg Müller, Munich 1911
- Sea of fog . Georg Müller, Munich and Berlin 1914
- The black cat and other stories . Lutz, Stuttgart 1914
- The memorable experiences of Artur Gordon Pym . Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1918
- Ligeia and other short stories . Propylaea, Berlin 1920
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan : The Blasphemy School . Reclam, Leipzig 1926 (translated together with Theodor Etzel)
- Oscar Wilde : Poems . Insel, Leipzig 1907
literature
- Kühn-Etzel, Gisela . In: Nekrolog zu Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 1901-1935 . de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig 1936, column 389.
- Reinhard Müller: Kühn-Etzel, Gisela . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 9: Kober-Lucidarius. Francke, Bern 1984, ISBN 3-7720-1538-7 , Sp. 618.
Web links
- Gisela Etzel (1880–1918) - love poems , deutsche-liebeslyrik.de
- Works by Gisela Etzel in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Literature by and about Gisela Etzel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Remarks
- ↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1907. Letters from her are also known under this name ( Kalliope ).
- ↑ short stories . 5 volumes 1908-1911; s. Editorial note on Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-90031-2 .
- ^ Stefan Zweig: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. The life of a poet . Insel, Leipzig 1927, Chapter 14 in the Gutenberg project .
- ^ A publication from Maria Magdalena to Sarah Bernhard . 1914, in Nekrolog zu Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. 1901-1935 . 1936, Col. 389 and thereafter in the German Literature Lexicon , is bibliographically not verifiable.
- ↑ From the foreword: “This collection of stories from Asia and Africa is primarily intended to be an entertainment book. It is a colorful selection from the works of German, French, English and Italian researchers, missionaries and folklorists, i.e. from books that remain unknown to a larger group of readers. "
- ^ Poems, love poetry ( table of contents and text of a poem ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Etzel, Gisela |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kühn-Etzel, Gisela; Kühn, Gisela; Waltner, Gisela (maiden name); Bogenhardt, Gisela (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kissingen |
DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |
Place of death | Bern |