Gisela Etzel

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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)
  • 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
  • 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

Web links

Remarks

  1. Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1907. Letters from her are also known under this name ( Kalliope ).
  2. 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 .
  3. ^ Stefan Zweig: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. The life of a poet . Insel, Leipzig 1927, Chapter 14 in the Gutenberg project .
  4. ^ 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.
  5. 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. "
  6. ^ Poems, love poetry ( table of contents and text of a poem ).