Hedwig Kym

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Hedwig Kym (born May 27, 1860 in Zurich ; † August 31, 1949 in Neerach ) was a Swiss poet and women's rights activist .

Life

Hedwig Kym was the daughter of the philosophy professor Andreas Ludwig Kym and Anna, nee Biedermann. She grew up in Zurich, where she met Meta von Salis at the University of Meta in 1883 , with whom she then had a lifelong friendship. Together with her, she fought for better educational opportunities and equal rights for women. The two women were together from 1887, and from 1904 they spent a few years on Capri . In 1910 Hedwig Kym married Ernst Feigenwinter . On this occasion she converted and became a Catholic. She lived in Basel with Feigenwinter and von Salis. Later she lived in Neerach. She has published books of poetry and dramas, but also articles for the journal Die Philanthropin , which was edited by Caroline Farner . Kym was one of the very first women to become a full member of a reading society (in this case: the Zurich Museum Society) in 1894 .

Works

  • Poems. Munich 1887.
  • with Meta von Salis-Marschlins: songs and sayings. Munich 1892.
  • The Virgin. Dramatic poetry. 1898.
  • New poems. 1900.
  • Ballads from Switzerland. Zurich 1910.
  • In Memoriam Meta from Salis. Poems. Zurich 1929.
  • In the ring of years. Poems. 1934.
  • Double tragedy. Part I: Farner's bull. Part II: The fall of the Niobids. Basel 1935.
  • Hours of the day and hours of the night. Selected poems. Basel 1938.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regula Ludi : Kym, Hedwig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Doris Stump, Maya Widmer, Regula Wyss: German-speaking writers in Switzerland 1700–1945. A bibliography . Zurich 1994, p. 122.
  3. ^ Deutsches Literaturlexikon , founded by Wilhelm Kosch, 3rd edition, Bern / Munich 1984, Volume IX, p. 779.
  4. ↑ Thomas Ehrsam: "Silentium!" Reading and literary life in Zurich: Museum Society and Literature House. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2009, p. 98.
personal data
SURNAME Kym, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1949
Place of death Neerach