Heilwig Eulenburg

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Heilwig Countess zu Eulenburg (born September 10, 1939 in Berlin, † March 12, 1975 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) was a German writer .

family

Her father Botho-Ernst Dietlof Graf zu Eulenburg-Wicken (1903-1944) was a farmer, major and commander of the Grenadier Regiment 234 and was reported missing at Hlybokaye / Глыбокае in the Vilna governorate. Her mother was Adelheid Marianne Viktoria Freiin von Weizsäcker (1916-2004), born in 1916, a sister of the German Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and the physicist and peace researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . Adelheid wrote a. a. with Hans Engels the volume "East Prussian manor houses in Poland". She was a granddaughter of the officer, state secretary and war criminal Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (1882–1951) and Marianne, née. von Graevenitz (1889–1983). Heilwig had a younger sister, Apollonia.

Career

She spent her early childhood on the family estate Wicken / Klimówka in East Prussia , and after the expulsion of the Germans lived with her family in Lindau on Lake Constance. During her studies and four years thereafter, she lived in Munich and from 1970 back in Lindau, where she died in 1975 after a long illness at the age of 35. According to JW König, her grave is also in Lindau on Lake Constance. The serious physical illness, which increasingly robbed Heilwig Eulenburg of her ability to move, shaped her life as an adult and her work.

Heilwig Eulenburg completed a degree in Romance languages. In his memories of his student years in Munich, Raimund Büdel describes that although he got to know her, he did not really have access to her. Eulenburg's 1966 approved dissertation "Coping with the suffering in the French novel after the Second World War " was published in 1966 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich as booklet 23 of the Munich Romance works published by F. Rauhut and H. Rheinfelder and in 1967 in Max Hueber Published in Munich.

In 1967 Die Zeit published five sketches with autobiographical connotations under the title "Childhood Memories" on three pages. In 1969 her text "And yet being human" was also published in "Zeit".

Her first book was published in 1970, a collection of texts subdivided into five parts under the title "Too Close", a second edition was published in 1972. In this book, she reflected on her life, her relationship to her family and in particular with great openness and expressive language to her sister Apollonia and, above all, her long life with a serious illness. Her spelling, based solely on precise reflection of perception and mental states, bears testimony to Eulenburg's astute and consistently independent thinking, goes as far as the formation of new words where the author seems advised to express herself briefly and aptly and comes without the then largely upright separation from literature and analytics or between autobiographical sketch, poetry and story. In 1974 Piper released another edition of the work.

In 1976 her second literary work, "Elsewhere", was published posthumously, in which Eulenburg consistently continued her confrontation with her life and illness, aimed at knowledge and personal development.

Publications

  • Childhood memories. In: The time . Hamburg, November 24, 1967.
  • And yet be human - condemned to disease. In: The time. No. 50, December 12, 1969.
  • Too close. (= Red cut ). 2nd Edition. Piper Verlag, 1970, ISBN 3-492-01858-0 .
  • Somewhere else. Biederstein, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7642-0157-6 .

reception

Correspondence

  • Correspondence received in literary archives (access partially limited by data protection)
  • 4 letters to Carl Jacob Burckhardt. Some short stories are enclosed, as well as 2 reply letters; Period: 1969–73
  • Correspondence with Hans Bender
  • Correspondence with Klaus Piper
  • Correspondence with Hans Dieter Müller
  • Correspondence with Hans Paeschke ( Merkur magazine )
  • Correspondence with Urs Widmer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zeit.de
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, pp. 51-52, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408
  3. ↑ Martin Wein: The Weizsäcker - History of a German Family. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-426-02417-9 .
  4. ↑ ISBN 978-3-406-36798-4 .
  5. ↑ ostpreussen.net
  6. ↑ zeit.de
  7. ↑ JW König, Die Grabstätten deutschrachigen Dichter und Denker, 2000.
  8. ↑ portal.dnb.de
  9. ^ Raimund Büdel, The enthusiast and the brittle, youth in Würzburg, JHRoll-Verlag Dettelbach, ISBN 978-3-89754-282-2 .
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personal data
SURNAME Eulenburg, Heilwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eulenburg, Heilwig Countess to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1975
Place of death Lindau (Lake Constance)