Hilde Stieler

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Hilde Stieler (born Hildegard Meyer ; born March 28, 1879 in Zurich , † February 19, 1965 in La Seyne-sur-Mer ) was a German writer and painter.

Life

Hildegard Meyer was the middle of five daughters of the chemist Victor Meyer . The family of the mother Hedwig, b. Davidson, who was originally Jewish, converted to Protestantism, and Hedwig Meyer's children were also raised Protestants. In 1902 she married the actor Kurt Stieler , whom she had met while studying piano in Munich, and followed him to Leipzig and Berlin for his engagements.

In Berlin she belonged to the circle around Franz Pfemfert's magazine Die Aktion , where several of her poems appeared in 1917 and 1918. She also published in the magazines Das Reich (Ed. Alexander von Bernus ), Die Schaubühne and Maß und Wert . In 1918 a volume of her poetry was published as Volume 17 of the series “Der Rote Hahn” in Verlag der Aktion .

She separated from her husband around 1922 and divorced in 1926. In 1928 she moved to Paris together with the painter and art historian Erich Klossowski , and in 1932 to the Côte d'Azur , where she lived first in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer and then in Sanary-sur-Mer until her death and as Writer and painter worked with Klossowski for a long time. In 1949 she separated from Klossowski and married the Dutch Carthusian monk and translator Robert Marie Henri de Wilt, which gave her Dutch citizenship .

Works

Hilde Stieler: The rainbow. Poems , Verlag Die Aktion, 1918 ( The Red Rooster, Volume 17 )
  • The Rainbow. Poems. Action, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1918.
  • Monika Molander. Novel. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1929.
  • The high-class extra from Sanary. Transl. And ed. by Manfred Flügge . AvivA, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-932338-39-7 .

literature

  • Hartmut Vollmer (ed.): The sun dances its way to death in red shoes. Poetry by expressionist female poets. Igel, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86815-526-6 .
  • Ulrike Voswinckel, Frank Berninger (ed.): Exile on the Mediterranean. German writer in the south of France from 1933–1941. Allitera (Edition monacensia), Munich 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Stieler, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Hilde (maiden name); Meyer, Hildegard Selma Gertrude (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1965
Place of death La Seyne-sur-Mer