Ina von Grumbkow

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Viktorine Helene Natalie von Grumbkow , later Ina Reck (born September 15, 1872 in Övelgönne near Hamburg , † January 30, 1942 in Berlin ), was a German travel writer.

Life

She came from the old Pomeranian noble family Grumbkow and was the daughter of Viktor von Grumbkow (1842–1872) and Ina Bendixen (1840–1914). Her cousin was the writer Waldemar von Grumbkow (1888-1959).

When Grumbkow was engaged to the Berlin geologist Walther von Knebel , he undertook an expedition to the deserted interior of Iceland in 1907 , from which he never returned. All that was learned was that he had last taken a boat out to Lake Öskjuvatn , the lake on the Askja , with his friend and traveling companion Max Rudloff .

Grumbkow did not want to come to terms with the disappearance of her fiancé without a trace and undertook - unusual for the time - a trip to the area himself in 1908 in order to at least find and recover his body. She did not succeed, but on the other hand she found her future spouse in her travel companion Hans Reck , also a geologist. She also wrote a book about her journey called Ísafold .

The remarkable woman, who in 1907 did not feel able to accompany her fiancé Walther von Knebel (1880–1907) on his geological expedition to Iceland, recalled after her search expedition in the summer of 1908 in the foreword to her book published in Berlin in 1909 ( Ísafold. Die Eisumschlungene ) to the grueling preparations for carrying out their Iceland expedition: "After I had proven on a test expedition through the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland that I was capable of longer rides, we started the journey through the island." The route across Iceland from south to north - partly on the postal routes, there were no roads in Iceland at that time - went something like this: Reykjavík - Hekla - Laki crater - Tungnafellsjökull ( i.e. across the region of Suðurland = south country) - Sprengisandur - Akureyri in northern Iceland as a stopover on the search expedition to the central Icelandic highlands. Akureyri - Mývatn - Ódáðahraun - Herðubreið - Dyngjufjöll - Askja . In July 1907 the missing German researchers Walther von Knebel and Max Rudloff had also chosen this route from Akureyri to Askja, whose large crater lake was their undoing. After their unsuccessful search for weeks, Ina von Grumbkow and her companion Hans Reck managed an equally arduous return trip on horseback on the mail path, partly together with the postman at the time, to the capital Reykjavík, which they took with the Icelandic steamer Ceres on September 8, 1908 towards Left home.

After returning from the trip, Grumbkow married Hans Reck, 14 years her junior, on February 9, 1912, and lived temporarily in Africa with her husband, who later became a professor . On Mount Tendaguru in what was then German East Africa , today Tanzania , they excavated for the Berlin Museum of Natural History . After the end of the German colonial era, Ina and Hans Reck were interned in Dar es Salaam for a long time by the British .

Ina von Grumbkow, married Reck, retired to Germany for good after the death of her husband on African soil in 1937 to the shared villa in Glienicke near Berlin, where she died unhappy and lonely during the Second World War in 1942. Her grave is not known.

Works

  • Ina von Grumbkow: Ísafold. Travel pictures from Iceland. Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin 1909, OCLC 934807198 ( full text online HTML, free of charge, XXIII, 202 pages, numerous illustrations, online version created by Dieter Graser, no PDF); New edition with an afterword by Marion Malinowski (ed.): Ísafold. Travel pictures from Iceland. LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg October 2006, ISBN 978-3-936134-15-5 .
  • Ina Reck: With the Tendaguru expedition in the south of German East Africa , Reimer, Berlin 1924, OCLC 10444699 ; Reprint: Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-4208-3 .
  • Ina Reck: On lonely marches in the north of German East Africa , Reimer, Berlin 1925, DNB 575740728 , OCLC 25952339 .

literature

  • Lutz Mohr : Iceland - fascination and mystery: the tragedy of German researchers on the Icelandic crater lake . For Iceland's national holiday on June 17th. In: Greifswalder Blitz , Volume 2, No. 48 of June 14, 1995, p. 1 f.
  • Lutz Mohr: Ina von Grumbkow - just an adventurer? A woman from the Pomeranian aristocratic family on the search for traces in Iceland in the summer of 1908. In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , Volume 64, Episode 38 (September 14-20) 2014, pp. 12-13.
  • Frank Schroeder: The Eisumschlungene. A search for clues in Iceland . Lundi-Press, Eichstätt 1995, ISBN 3-9801648-3-7 .
  • Ingeburg Tiemann : Iceland - island of myths . With texts from Ina von Grumbkows Isafold (= The bibliophile paperbacks No. 565). Harenberg Kommunikation , Dortmund 1989, ISBN 3-88379-565-8 .
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume VIII, page 184, volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Marion Lerner : From the desolate and saddest region to the island of dreams: Iceland travel books in a tourist context (= Munich Nordic Studies , Volume 22), Utz, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4483-4 .

Web links

Wikisource: Ina Reck  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ida Pfeiffer : Journey to the Scandinavian north and the island of Iceland in 1845 . Ina Reck: Ísafold . Ingeburg Tiemann: Iceland.
personal data
SURNAME Grumbkow, Ina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grumbkow, Viktorine Helena Natalie von (full name); Reck, Ina (later name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German adventurer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Övelgönne near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1942
Place of death Berlin