Helene Siegfried

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Portrait of Helene Siegfried on a memorial stone in front of the Hüsli local history museum
Blackboard at the Villa Aichele in Loerrach

Helene Siegfried (* May 18, 1867 in Lörrach as Helene Aichele ; † June 27, 1966 in Grafenhausen -Rothaus) was a German concert singer and writer. She is the builder of the later Hüsli local history museum in Rothaus.

Life

Helene Aichele was born on May 18, 1867, the daughter of the factory owner Albert Aichele (partner and managing director of KBC textile printing company ) and his wife Marie, née Vom Hove, and was baptized as a Protestant on June 6. One of her two siblings was the later electrical engineering pioneer Albert Aichele (1865–1922).

After attending elementary school, Helene Aichele married the Swiss writer Walther Siegfried (born March 20, 1858 in Zofingen , Canton Aargau ; † November 1, 1947 in Partenkirchen) in Partenkirchen in 1890 , to whom she gave birth to daughter Margot Heller-Siegfried around 1895 . At the turn of the century she left her family and moved to Berlin. After her musical training, she was successful there as a concert singer under the name Helene Siegfried-Martini.

She also collected antiques in her apartment. There she also associated with well-known artists of her time, including the opera singer Enrico Caruso , the composer Richard Strauss , the later Twain translator Else Otten (1873-1931) and the painters Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach . The latter made a portrait of her. In Berlin she was also active in literature and published titles such as Goethe as a companion , Einkehr with Gottfried Keller and wisdom and beauty of the Bible .

After she had already spent a lot of time in the Black Forest before the First World War, she had a summer residence built in the Grafenhausen district of Rothaus - the Hüsli - by 1912. She brought together village art objects, furniture and house components such as stairs, doors and railings from the farmhouses in the near and far and used them to furnish the Hüsli. This house in the Black Forest became her main residence after Siegfried lost all of her property in World War II.

Already during Siegfried's lifetime, District Administrator Alfred Mallebrein campaigned for the collection to be preserved after her death. After the district council had inspected the building, it unanimously decided at the district council on March 26, 1958 in Hinterzarten that the Upper Black Forest district would buy the Hüsli .

Helene Siegfried-Aichele died on June 27, 1966 at the age of 99. The Hüsli was converted into a local museum.

In 1974 Margot Heller-Siegfried published a biography of her mother in the booklet Hüsli Memoirs .

Works

  • Wisdom and Beauty from the Bible , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, 1948

literature

  • Margot Heller-Siegfried (author), district of Waldshut (ed.): Hüsli memories , Rosgarten-Verlag, Konstanz 1974; New edition: Grafenhausen 2008.
  • Berthold Hänel: Siegfried, Helene , in: Badische Biographien . New series, Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1982, p. 250 ( E-Text )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ familysearch.org: Helene Aichele, 1867 , in: Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898 , accessed on July 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Alois Schwarzmüller: Walther Siegfried, From the picture book of a life - Hermann Levi and Haus Riedberg ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.gaponline.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2009, accessed July 5, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Gudrun Wedel: Autobiographies of Women: Ein Lexikon , Böhlau, Cologne and Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20585-0 , p. 329, preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ a b dbnl.org: Jaarboek Letterkundig Museum 6 Den Haag 1997, accessed on July 5, 2012
  5. ^ Leopold Schmidt: From the concerts in: Berliner Tageblatt (morning edition) of March 3, 1915, accessed on July 5, 2012
  6. ^ Alfred Mallebrein: The Hüsli in Rothaus-Grafenhausen. A collection of Black Forest folk art , Neustadt 1959, accessed on July 5, 2012
  7. ↑ badische-zeitung.de: Grafenhausen: New edition of the "Hüsli memories" , August 28, 2008, accessed on July 5, 2012
  8. ^ New edition of the "Hüsli memories" , badische-zeitung.de, August 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Siegfried, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aichele, Helene (maiden name); Siegfried-Aichele, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert singer, writer and collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1966
Place of death Grafenhausen -Rothaus