Hedwig Lachmann
Hedwig Lachmann , married Landau, (born August 29, 1865 in Stolp , Pomerania province ; died February 21, 1918 in Krumbach ) was a German writer , translator and poet .
Life
Hedwig Lachmann was the oldest of six children of the cantor Isaak Lachmann (1838–1900) and Wilhelmine (Minna), née Wohlgemuth (1841–1917). After spending her childhood in Stolp and then seven years in Hürben , now part of the city of Krumbach (Swabia) , she passed her exams as a language teacher in Augsburg at the age of fifteen . Two years later, Hedwig Lachmann was a teacher in England . In 1885 she settled in Dresden .
Lachmann's life continued to be varied. Only two years later she worked as an educator and language teacher in Budapest . In 1889 she moved to Berlin . It was there that her translations appeared for the first time in the publishing house of the Bibliographical Bureau ( Hungarian Poems and Selected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ). From 1889 until shortly before her death in 1917, she kept in touch with the Friedrichshagener and Pankow poets.
In 1892 Hedwig Lachmann met Richard Dehmel for the first time ; a long friendship began. Lachmann met her future husband Gustav Landauer for the first time in 1899 at a reading in Dehmel's house. Her father died the following year.
In the spring of 1901 she began her “heartfelt alliance” with Gustav Landauer, and in September of the same year they emigrated to England together. In the same year the Austrian poet Anton Lindner published her translation of Oscar Wilde's Salome , which became the textual basis for Richard Strauss ' opera of the same name .
A year later they both returned to Berlin and their daughter Gudula was born. Lachmann's poems and adaptations were published that same year. In March 1903 Gustav Landauer divorced his first wife in order to marry Hedwig Lachmann in May 1903.
In 1905 Lachmann published an Oscar Wilde monograph. Just one year later, their second daughter Brigitte was born. Richard Dehmel's enthusiasm for the war at the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 led Lachmann to break his friendship.
Hedwig Lachmann's mother died in Krumbach in 1917; the Landauer family moved to Krumbach because of the poor food situation. Hedwig Lachmann died of pneumonia on February 21, 1918 and was buried in the Krumbach Jewish cemetery . In the following year the widower published her collected poems in the publishing house Gustav Kiepenheuer.
Her daughter Brigitte Landauer was the mother of the American film director Mike Nichols .
Works
Poems
- Im Bilde (poems and adaptations), 1902
- Familiar and strange and still me (poems, adaptations, essays), 2003
Posthumous editions:
- Collected Poems , 1919
- Familiar and strange and still me. Poems, adaptations and essays , 2003
Translations
- from English:
- Sir Thomas Malory - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1913); Original: Le Mort d'Arthur (1485)
- Works by Oscar Wilde , including:
- The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1909, with Gustav Landauer , reprinted several times)
- Works by Edgar Allan Poe
- Works by Rabindranath Tagore
- The post office (around the beginning of the 19th century, with Gustav Landauer , reprinted several times)
- The King of the Dark Chamber (around the beginning of the 19th century, with Gustav Landauer , reprinted several times)
- from Hungarian:
- Hungarian poems , 1891
- Works by Sándor Petőfi
- from French:
- Works by Honoré de Balzac
- Works by Oscar Wilde:
- Salomé (1901, Richard Strauss used this translation for the libretto of his opera Salome )
literature
- Ruth Wolf: Changes and Metamorphoses. Female poets of the 20th century. In: German literature by women. Vol. 2 (19th and 20th centuries), Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-33021-5 , pp. 334-352.
- Annegret Walz: I don't want to be at the logical height of my time. Hedwig Lachmann. A biography. Edition Die Schnecke, Flacht 1993, ISBN 3-929589-00-1 .
- Birgit Seemann : "With the vanquished". Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918) - German-Jewish writer and anti-militarist . Revised and updated new edition. Ill. V. Uwe Rausch. Lich / Hessen 2012, Edition AV, ISBN 978-3-86841-073-0 .
- Thomas Heitele, Heinrich Lindenmayr (ed.): "... already relieved on earth ..." Hedwig Lachmann. Krumbach 2006. (= series of publications by the Mittelschwäbisches Heimatmuseum Krumbach; Vol. 1)
- Renate Heuer : Landauer, Hedwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 493 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Heinrich Lindenmayr: The poet and the social revolutionary. The marriage of Hedwig Lachmann and Gustav Landauer. In. Krumbacher Heimatblätter 19 (2012) pp. 64–83
- Barbara Hahn : Under a false name. The difficult authorship of women. Frankfurt / M. 1991 (edition suhrkamp 1723) - especially pp. 71-87.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hedwig Lachmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Hedwig Lachmann at Zeno.org .
- Works by Hedwig Lachmann in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Transcriptions at ngiyaw eBooks - as well as digital copies at ngiyaw Sources
- richard-dehmel.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hanna Delf von Wolzüge: Hedwig Lachmann (1865-1918) , Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. March 1, 2009. Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ Rabindranath Tagore: The Post Office , translated by Hedwig Lachmann and Gustav Landauer. Oct 7, 2018. projekt-gutenberg.org
- ↑ Rabindranath Tagore: The King of the Dark Chamber , translated by Hedwig Lachmann and Gustav Landauer. Oct 7, 2018. archive.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lachmann, Hedwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hedwig Lachmann-Landauer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolp , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1918 |
| Place of death | Krumbach |