Helene von Hülsen
Helene von Hülsen (born Countess von Haeseler; born February 16, 1829 at the Blankenfelde manor near Teltow; † May 8, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German writer and salonnière.
Life
Helene von Hülsen was born in 1829 as the daughter of the Prussian upper castle captain Eduard Graf von Haeseler and Adolfine von dem Knesebeck on the Blankenfelde manor near Teltow. In 1849 she married the Prussian officer and theater manager Botho von Hülsen and went to Berlin with him. In the following years she wrote poems, short stories and novels, some of which were published under the pseudonym "Helene". Numerous novels appeared in sequels in magazines, such as B. the Deutsche Rundschau .
As early as 1850, she and her husband had received members of Berlin's court society in their house. Later, Helene von Hülsen organized so-called “Helene tees” or “artist coffees” as a salon lady, to which she attended stage greats in Berlin and fellow writers such as B. Fedor von Zobeltitz received. She also received Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima several times in her apartment at Französische Strasse 36 . Helene von Hülsen died in 1892 and was buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. Her grave has not been preserved.
Helene von Hülsen is the mother of the Prussian general Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler and the theater manager Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler . Her sister Adelheid von Treskow (1833–1908) was landlady in Schloss Friedrichsfelde near Berlin and is mentioned by Theodor Fontane in the 15th chapter of his novel Der Stechlin : “[…] lovely village and lovely castle. I was there once; the lady of the house is a sister of Frau von Hülsen ”.
Trivia
The military musician Friedrich Lübbert (1818-1892) named his Helenenmarsch , which was awarded at a composition competition in Berlin in 1857, after Helene von Hülsen. Today, the Helenenmarsch is one of the most famous marches in Germany even outside of military circles, which is not least due to its use in the Christmas sketch by Hoppenstedts by Loriot .
Works
Under the pseudonym Helene
- From heart and life (poems, 1867)
- Short stories and sketches for their friends (1869)
- Not wanted - found (novellas, 1872)
- From old and new times (novellas, 1874)
Under her name
- Dream and Truth (novel, 1874)
- Without tinsel (novellas, 1877)
- In light and shadow (novellas, 1878)
- Elimar (1879)
- Nemesis (1883)
- Images from the Modern World (1882)
- Then and now (short stories, 1885)
- Memories of someone who went home (meaning Professor Adolf Schottmüller; 1890)
- Three Life Episodes (1892)
As editor
- “Under two kings”: memories of Botho von Hülsen, general manager of the Royal Drama; 1851-1886 (1889)
- Under Frederick the Great. From the memoirs of the elder father 1752–1773 (1890)
literature
- Heinrich Groß: German female poets and writers in words and pictures . 2nd volume. Fr. Thiel, Berlin 1885, p. 324 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hülsen, Countess Helene v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 383 f. ( Digitized version ). (the second part of the list of works can be found at zeno.org under Hülsen, Helene v. )
- Helene . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adolfine von dem Knesenbeck is not identical to Adolphine von Klitzing , who was Helene von Hülsen's great-aunt.
- ^ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin salons: With historical-literary walks . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-020488-6 , p. 424 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hülsen, Helene von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Häseler, Helene Countess von (maiden name); Helene (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blankenfelde |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1892 |
| Place of death | Berlin |