Helene von Götzendorff-Grabowski

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Helene von Götzendorff-Grabowski , married Helene Freifrau von Maderny (born April 19, 1860 in Silesia , † May 27, 1908 in Venice ), was a German writer.

Life

Helene von Götzendorff-Grabowski began to write mood pictures, poems and novellettes as a child. She spent her youth in the province of Poznan . When her father, a senior Prussian officer, retired in 1877, the family moved to Wiesbaden . There Helene von Götzendorff-Grabowski married Baron Adrian von Maderny, a former Bavarian officer, in 1887. She lived with him in Vienna (from 1898) and then in Berlin . Her husband suffered from an injury sustained near Sedan and took his own life with poison on May 26, 1908 while visiting Venice. The following day, Helene von Maderny also committed suicide. Both were buried in the San Michele cemetery in Venice.

Helene von Götzendorff-Grabowski published stories, short stories, poems and novels under her birth name - initially in various magazines, later summarized in books. The Nordische Rundschau commented on the appearance of its first collections of Butterflies and Hilarious Stories in 1886 , saying that Götzendorff-Grabowski had been "no stranger to the German reading public for a long time", since many of their works were already in print in the "feature sections of the most widely read newspapers." appeared ”, so that reading the two books one encounters“ a number of good old acquaintances ”. They show a "pretty, fresh talent for representation, which does justice to both the seriousness of life and its cheerful sides". Götzendorff-Grabowski chose romantic subjects for her works several times, for example in her most recent novel Der Märchenprinz (1908).

In addition to her work as a writer, she also translated from English, French and Italian and worked as a columnist and critic.

Works (selection)

  • Butterflies. Novellettes and mood pictures. 2nd edition, Bechtold & Co., Wiesbaden 1890 (1st edition 1886).
  • Cheerful stories. 2nd edition, Bechtold & Co., Wiesbaden 1890 (1st edition 1886).
  • Serious and joking for the girl's heart! : Short stories and sketches for the mature girl age. Bardtenschlager, Reutlingen 1888.
  • Stories in Cœur. Eckstein's successor, Berlin 1890.
  • The Cameroonian. Romantic story. Schuhmann, Leipzig 1897 (previously published as a sequel in Die Gartenlaube . From issue 30, 1891).
  • Tangled threads. (= Roman gallery for salon and travel. Volume 32) Schuhmann, Leipzig 1897.
  • From the carnival of life. (= Roman gallery for salon and travel. Volume 41) Schuhmann, Leipzig 1897.
  • Children of light. Novellas and sketches. (= Roman gallery for salon and travel. Volume 49) Schuhmann, Leipzig 1897.
  • Magic lantern. All sorts of colorful images of life. Lützenkirchen & Bräcking, Wiesbaden 1897.
  • Questioning stories, novellas and sketches. Schmidt, Berlin 1899.
  • Martyr of love. Novellas. Schmidt, Berlin 1899.
  • The great Mielke. A true story. Schmidt, Berlin 1899.
  • Opposite: a silent story. (= Gabelsberger library. Series H, 75.) Hecknersche Druckerei, Wolfenbüttel 1905.
  • The Prince Charming. Novel from society (= Kürschner's book treasure no. 630), Hermann Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1908 ( dnb, with portrait of the author ).

literature

  • Maderny, Baroness Helene von. In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. Volume 2, Berlin 1898, p. 6 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Maderny, Helene Freifrau von. In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 4, Leipzig 1913, p. 339 ( online in the German text archive ).
  • von Götzendorff-Grabowski, Helene. In: Gerhard Lüdtke (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog, de Gruyter, Berlin 1936, p. 231.
  • Maderny, b. v. Götzendorff-Grabowski, Helene v. In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries: a lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-476-00456-2 , p. 193.
  • Götzendorff-Grabowsky, Helene v. In: Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography: short biographies from 13 centuries. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 238.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. 1981, p. 193. Deviating from this, 1855 is also given as the year of birth (including Kürschner's German Literature Calendar ) or Posen as the place of birth ( Lexicon of German Women of the Pen. )
  2. ↑ Maderny, b. v. Götzendorff-Grabowski, Helene v. In: Elisabeth Friedrichs: The German-speaking women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries: a lexicon. Metzler, 1981, p. 193
  3. ↑ Maderny, Helene Freifrau von. In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 4, Leipzig 1913, p. 339.
  4. ↑ Nordische Rundschau: a monthly publication. Volume 5, Lindfors' Erben, Reval 1886, p. 572.
  5. ↑ Maderny, Baroness Helene von. In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. Volume 2, Berlin 1898, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Götzendorff-Grabowski, Helene von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maderny, Helene von (married name); Goetzendorff-Grabowski, Helene von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1908
Place of death Venice