Helene Raff

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Helene Raff (born March 31, 1865 in Wiesbaden , † December 8, 1942 in Munich ) was a German painter, writer and collector of sagas . She made her debut as a visual artist at the Munich Secession in 1890 .

Life and work

She was the daughter of the composer Joseph Joachim Raff (1822–1882) and the actress Dorothe "Doris" Raff , b. Genast (1826-1902). Her parents decided to let her teach privately.

As a visual artist, Raff was a student of Heinrick Lossow and Claus Meyer in Munich and Gustave Courtois in Paris.

Raff's father composed the cantata Die Tageszeiten (Opus 209) (1878) and the song cycle Blondel de Nesle (Opus 211) (1880) to accompany her texts . The pseudonym Helge Heldt was supposed to conceal the fact that these were works by his daughter, who was still in her teenage years.

She was in a close but asexual relationship with the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen , who was fascinated by her beauty. In order to better appreciate Ibsen's works, she learned Norwegian. As a birthday present in 1890, she gave him a study in oil of a young woman with a white headscarf, whom the poet described as “little Solveig” - the female figure he portrayed in the drama Peer Gynt . Later he received a painted landscape of Normandy from her.

Helene Raff became known as a portrait painter in Munich and gained a solid reputation as a writer. In addition to her father's biography and other articles about him, she wrote an unpublished Ibsen diary that was lost. Her autobiography Blätter vom Lebensbaum was published in 1938.

Raff specialized in collecting fairy tales and myths from southern Germany. Her works in this area include Regina Himmelschütz , Old Bavarian Legends , Franconian Legends and Legends and Der Münchner Waldfriedhof . She also wrote several historical novels. In the 1920s, Raff chose not to support Hitler.

bibliography

  • The good and the bad. Stories from Bavaria and Tyrol . Berlin 1904.
  • Sinners and atoned for. Stories and sketches . Berlin 1907.
  • Forces of nature. Four stories . Stuttgart 1909.
  • Paul Heyse ; with three portraits. JG Cotta. Stuttgart 1910.
  • German women across the sea . R. Thienemanns Verlag. Stuttgart 1911.
  • The Nebelreiter and other stories . Stuttgart 1912.
  • The boulder from the Arlberg . Munich 1913.
  • Peace fights . Stuttgart 1917.
  • The georgine . Novel. Stuttgart 1920.
  • Laurin's rose garden. Fairy tales, stories and legends from Tyrol . Stuttgart undated (around 1920)
  • Regina Himmelschütz . [Paperback]. R. Thienemanns Verlag. Stuttgart 1921.
  • So long old Peter. An old Munich city book . Knorr & Hirth GmbH. Munich 1923
  • Tyrolean legends . With pictures by Hugo Grimm. Innsbruck 1924.
  • Joachim Raff: A picture of life . German music library. German Music Library Vo. 42. Gustav Bosses Verlag. 1925.
  • Old Bavarian legends. Retold by ... . Illustrated by Hans Röhn. Publishing house ”Bücher der Heimat”. Altoetting 1925.
  • Franconian legends and sagas. Selected and partly retold by ... . Altoetting 1927.
  • The girl from Spinges . Stuttgart 1927.
  • German women across the sea . Stuttgart 1930.
  • Hertha's strange journey . Stuttgart 1937.
  • Helene Raff: Leaves from the Tree of Life . Knorr & Hirth GmbH Munich 1938.

literature

  • Marit Lange: Three Women in Ibsen's “Blue Drawing Room” (p. 188-201) In: A Thing or Two About Ibsen. His prossessions, dramatic poetry and life . Andrimne Forlag and Communicators AS. Oslo 2006. ISBN 82-92546-08-1
  • AE Zucker: Ibsen, the Master Builder . Thornton Butterworth Ltd. London 1930.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Raff, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1942
Place of death Munich