Irene Forbes-Mosse

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Irene Forbes-Mosse , b. von Flemming (born August 5, 1864 in Baden-Baden , † December 26, 1946 in Villeneuve , Switzerland), was a German writer . She wrote poems and short stories famous for their atmospheric density and unsentimental psychological outlook, and worked as a translator. Her books were banned in the Third Reich.

Life

Irene Forbes-Mosse was born on August 5, 1864 as the daughter of the Prussian ambassador at the Baden court, Albert Graf von Flemming , and his wife Armgart. von Arnim was born in Baden-Baden . She was the granddaughter of Bettina and Achim von Arnim . The writer Elisabeth von Heyking geb. Flemming was her older sister.

In 1884 she married her cousin, the Prussian Rittmeister Roderich Deodat Wilhelm Albert Eduard von Oriola (1860–1911) and was divorced from him again in 1895. In 1896 she married the English Colonel John Forbes-Mosse and lived with him in Florence. There she made friends with the English writer Vernon Lee (actually Violet Paget) and began her writing activity. After the death of her husband in 1904, she made several trips. She lived in Germany until 1913, then in Italy and later in Switzerland. After the outbreak of the First World War , she took German citizenship again, which resulted in a loss of her property. During the war she devoted herself to social tasks. From 1931 she lived with her friend Berthy Moser in Villeneuve on Lake Geneva , where she died in December 1946.

“When wandering, one now touches poetic figures like Irene Forbes-Mosse, who is stronger than he [Th. Man], insofar as she, this magnificent woman, granddaughter of Bettina Arnim, easily has more poetic blood, more universal blood (in short: more strength). "

- Alfred Kerr

“Irène Forbes-Mosse [unites] a perfect rhythm with the greatest openness to the world, a love of the landscape, the poor and the disinherited of happiness [...] with an increasingly confident, elegant demeanor and instinctive taste. The epic core often suffers from the excessive tendency towards delightful, mood-saturated arabesques, which is why the novellas, stories and sketches [...] surpass the novels [...] considerably. "

- Ernst Alker

Works

Poetry

  • Mezzavoce. Poems. Book decorations and illustrations by Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede . 1901.
  • Peregrina's summer evenings. Songs for the twilight hour, as well as thirty translations from French, English and Danish. Book decorations and illustrations by Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede. 1904.
  • The rose gate. Poems. Book decorations and illustrations by Heinrich Vogeler-Worpswede. 1905.
  • Rain song. 1905. Set to music by Susanne Wosnitzka in 2007 for Regenmacher, cello, piano and a voice
  • Selected old and new poems. 1926.

Stories and novels

  • Barberries and other stories. 1910.
  • The little death. 1912.
  • The Queen's candlestick. Fantasies. 1913.
  • Leaf litter. 1923.
  • Gabriele Alweyden or give and take. Novel. 1924.
  • Don Juan's daughters. Three novels. 1928.
  • The grindstone. Novella. 1928.
  • Kathinka plush. Novel. 1930.
  • The advertising heart. Novellas. 1934.
  • ( posthumously from the estate :) Distant houses. Stories. 1953.

Forbes-Mosse translated works by Vernon Lee ( Genius Loci ) and two pieces by Holger Drachmann .

The estate of Irene Forbes-Mosse is in the archive of the Free German Hochstift / Goethe Museum in Frankfurt am Main .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . J. Perthes., 1922, pp. 682 ( google.de [accessed December 20, 2019]).
  2. ^ The Anglo-German Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I ; Edited by Herward Sieberg and Christa Zorn. With a Foreword by Phyllis Mannocchi, Lewis / Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2014.
  3. ↑ From: Alfred Kerr: Thomas Mann. Fiorenza (January 5, 1913). Published in: Collected Writings in Two Series , First Series, Vol. 3 ( Die Sucher und die Seligen ), S. Fischer, Berlin 1917, p. 97.
  4. ↑ From: The German Literature in the 19th Century (1832-1914) , section Die moderne Literatur , Stuttgart 1962, p. 776.

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personal data
SURNAME Forbes-Mosse, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1946
Place of death Villeneuve