Grete Meisel-Hess

Grete Meisel-Heß (born April 18, 1879 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † April 18, 1922 in Berlin ) married Gellert, was an Austrian writer.

Life

Meisel-Hess grew up as the daughter of a wealthy factory owner in Vienna . She attended schools in Prachatitz and from 1894 in Vienna and then attended lectures in philosophy , sociology and biology as an extraordinary guest student in Vienna . She began to publish novels, short stories and essays under her maiden name from 1900. She dealt with social and sexual reforms, the emancipation of women and individualism. She clearly opposed Otto Weininger's 1903 bestseller Gender and Character . She criticized the prevailing sexual morality as a double standard and described prostitution as an effect of social bondage. She was close to the Federation for Maternity Protection .

In 1908 she went to Berlin, where she was married to the architect Oskar Gellert from 1909. Towards the end of her life, she advocated the "natural role of women" and racial hygiene .

Works

A strange honeymoon. New novellas , undated
Generations and their creators . An essay. Edelheim, Berlin 1901. 37 pp.
In the modern worldview . H. Seemann, Leipzig 1901. 113 pp.
Seeking souls . Three novels. H. Seemann, Leipzig 1903. 146 p. ( Online - Internet Archive )
Annie - Bianka . A travel story. H. Seemann, Leipzig 1903. 73 pp. (Seemann's small entertainment library, vol. 9)
Hatred and contempt for women . A reply to the information provided in Dr. Otto Weininger's book Gender and Character expressed views on "The woman and her question". Verlag "Die Wage", Vienna 1904. VI, 70 pages ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
The voice, novel in sheets . Wedekind, Berlin 1907. 413 pp.
The sexual crisis . A social psychological investigation. Verlag Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1909. XVI, 414 p. ( Online - Internet Archive )
Fanny Roth . A young woman's story. Seemann, Berlin - Leipzig 1910. 134 pp. (Siesta, library of popular contemporary storytellers, vol. 5)
The intellectuals . Novel. 1st edition. Oesterheld, Berlin 1911. 512 pp. ( Online - Internet Archive )
Sexual rights . Self-published by the Bund für Mutterschutz, Berlin 1912. 12 p. (Writings of the German Bund für Mutterschutz, Ortsgruppe Berlin, pamphlet No. 4, from: Die neue Generation , vol. 8, issue 4)
Ghosts , short stories, 1912
Reflections on the question of women . Prometheus Verlag - Gesellschaft, Berlin 1914. 282 pp.
War and marriage . Self-published by the Bund für Mutterschutz, Berlin 1915. 15 pp. From: War books of the German Federation for Mutterschutz and Sexualreform
The essence of sexuality . The sexual crisis in their relations to the social question and to war, to morality, race and religion and especially to monogamy. In 2 volumes. 1st - 3rd thousand. Verlag Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1916. XXXV, 312 / 313-666 pp.
The importance of monogamy . Verlag Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1917. XXVIII, 212 pp.
Marriage as an experience . H. Diekmann, Halle (Saale) 1919. 238 pp. (Diekmanns Memoirs - Memories - Library, Vol. 2)

literature

Gellert Grete. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 421.
Meisel-Hess, Grete. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 10-18 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Prague German stories , Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-15-008771-6 , page 476 f.
Philipp Blom, The Vertigo Years. Europe, 1900-1914, New York 2008, pp. 240-242.
Meisel-Hess, Grete , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 262

Individual evidence

^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 215f.

Web links

Wikisource: Grete Meisel-Hess - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Grete Meisel-Heß in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Grete Meisel-Heß at Zeno.org .
Works by Grete Meisel-Heß [1] , in WorldCat [2]
Project Ariadne of the Austrian National Library, online [3]
Grete Meisel-Hess in the Internet Archive

personal data
SURNAME	Meisel-Hess, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meisel-Hess, Grete; Gellert, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	April 18, 1922
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 215f.