Hanny Brentano

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Johanna "Hanny" Brentano , pseudonym Hans Brenner , monastery name as Benedictine Maria Rafaela (born February 9, 1872 as Johanna Legai in Moscow ; † June 23, 1940 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian journalist and writer and founder of Catholic women's magazines.

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Johanna Brentano, née Legai, received a humanistic education as the daughter of a German-Baltic land manager. During her time in Libau she worked as a journalist. B. she sent articles to the Libausche Zeitung . During her marriage to Matthäus Max Brentano, she only made a few translations from Russian for the magazine Die Kultur , as her husband was generally skeptical of a woman's journalistic / public activities. Her real literary career therefore only began when she was widowed. She mainly wrote the biographies of famous rulers, wrote a textbook for the Latvian language and translated Lev Tolstoy (Selected Works, 8 vols., 1911/12).

In 1908 Brentano converted to Catholicism and came into contact with the Catholic women's movement in Vienna in 1910 or 1911 during the First General Austrian Catholic Women's Day (March 29 to April 2, 1910) . She took over the editing of the conference report and the general secretariat of the Catholic Reich Women's Organization in Vienna and Lower Austria, and from 1911 to 1918 edited the Austrian Women's World published by the KRFOÖ . Monthly magazine for educated women ( Maria Assunta Nagl took over this position from February 1918 ).

In 1911 Brentano founded the women's magazine Wacht , but it did not last long. From 1912 to 1919 she was in charge of the General Secretariat of the KRFOÖ. She was responsible for the organization and publication of the report of the 2nd Austrian Catholic Women's Day in Vienna in April 1914 and worked on various women's magazines and sections in the Catholic press as well as on publications in German magazines.

On January 20, 1919, Brentano joined the Benedictine women's monastery Nonnberg in Salzburg in search of a “new purpose in life” and following an inner voice . Her autobiography How God Called Me (1925) provides information about this step and about her activities in the KRFOÖ.

As a religious, Brentano withdrew almost completely from her previously active public activities and devoted herself primarily to organizational tasks. However, she was still occasionally active as a journalist and wrote articles for American newspapers or book reviews, among other things.

Publications

  • Amalie Princess of Gallitzin . - Freiburg i. Br., 1910 (signature of the ÖNB: 470242-B.1)
  • Heinrich Hansjakob . Publishing house d. Leo Society, Vienna, 1907 (signature of the ÖNB: 236587-B)
  • Peter the Great and his time . Graz, 1907 (signature of the ÖNB: 445384-B-Per.4)
  • Emperor Franz Josef I. 1848-1908: his life - his time; a memorial book of his 60-year government . Gerlach et al. Wiedling, Vienna, 1908 (signature of the ÖNB: 755795-B)
  • From the Baltic region. Stories and sketches . Based on Latvian motifs, by Johanna Brentano. With pictures by A. Brentano. J. Habbel, Regensburg, 1910 (signature of the ÖNB: 756103-B)
  • The woman in the social movement : Lecture given at the "Social Week" in Vienna. Vienna, 1912 (signature of the ÖNB: 483717-B.6)
  • Women's war service . - In: Die Kultur (Cultur): magazine for science, literature and art . / Edited by the Austrian Leo Society. XVI. Born in Vienna, 1915 (signature of the ÖNB: 410256-B.16. (1915) -Per)
  • Courland . - In: On the border of Russia: 11 essays from the collection "The World War" . M.Gladbach, 1916 (signature of the ÖNB: 515258-B)
  • From our ruling house: anecdotes and sayings . Vienna u. Prague, 1918 (signature of the ÖNB: 530535-B.13)
  • Individual articles in Österreichische Frauenwelt
  • Brentano, Maria Rafaela: How God called me. My way from Protestantism to St. Benedict's school . Herder & Co. G. mb H. Publishing bookstore, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1925
  • Under the pseudonym Hans Brenner
    • Vienna in a novel . A. Opitz, Vienna 1909. (Signature of the ÖNB: 465627-B)
    • Look around . A. Opitz, Vienna, 1909 (signature of the ÖNB: 466272-B)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strohmeyr, Armin: The women of the Brentanos. Portraits from three centuries. List / Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-546-00389-6 , p. 342

literature

  • Bruno Jahn (adaptation): The German-language press. A biographical-bibliographical handbook. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11710-8 .
  • Armin Strohmeyr : The women of the Brentanos. Portraits from three centuries. List / Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-546-00389-6 , pp. 317-345.

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personal data
SURNAME Brentano, Hanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brentano, Johanna (real name); Legai, Johanna (maiden name); Brenner, Hans (pseudonym); Brentano, Maria Rafaela (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and newspaper founder
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1940
Place of death Salzburg