Irmgard Höfer from Feldsturm

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Irmgard Höfer von Feldsturm around 1909

Irmgard Adelheid Rosa Höfer von Feldsturm , née Sölch (born August 14, 1865 in Košátky (Koschatek), Bohemia ; † February 1, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer. Under the name Irma von Höfer , she published features, short stories and novels from the officer milieu and from the Biedermeier period .

Relatives and curriculum vitae

Irmgard Höfer von Feldsturm was born in Košátky (Koschatek) in the Dolni Slivno parish, in the Jungbunzlau district in Bohemia. She was a daughter of Johann Georg Sölch (1832–1873) from Mühlessen ( Milhostov ) near Eger in western Bohemia . He was a senior engineer and self-employed entrepreneur in the planning of railway lines and later became the landowner in Košátky. Her mother, Josefine Karnitschnig, came from Friedau ( Ormož ) in Lower Styria , now in Slovenia .

Irmgard Höfer von Feldsturm had the brother, Hermann Sölch (* 1859, died in Krcevina (Dompfarrei Marburg) on ​​November 26, 1926), the property owner in Friedau, Pettau ( Ptuj ) and Probezje in Slovenia and with Sidonia (Sida) O'Lynch de Lynch (Town), daughter of Carl O'Lynch de Town (* 1834; † 11 May 1916 in Graz), chief geometer of the record keeping, kk colonel, married in 1862 to Emilie von Gjurkovecki (* 1845; † 1897 in Graz) and Niece of the painter Carl O'Lynch of Town , was married.

Irmgard Höfer von Feldsturm was the wife of the Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal Franz Ritter Höfer von Feldsturm (1861-1918).

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Irma von Höfer is a representative of the German-language historical novel . She portrays 19th century society in her novels published after 1900. The Biedermeier period is described in Fanny Elßler - Franz von Gentzen's Last Dream of Love , represented by historical figures such as the dancer Fanny Elßler and her partner Friedrich von Gentz , who was 46 years her senior , and the secretary of the most important designer of this era, Prince Metternich . But also the life of the bourgeois society of this time is represented in the narrow alley .

Other of her novels dealing with the lives of the imperial officers, a world in which they an Austro-Hungarian general has as wife insight. Irma von Höfer thus becomes the co-founder of a subgenre of the historical novel in which this world of barracks life, often far from the family, in the border garrisons of the Habsburg monarchy , is depicted. The officers are often melancholy and plagued by fears about the future. Either they have improper affairs or they can not marry their proper lover due to lack of money in the absence of a marriage deposit . Gambling debts and the code of honor that repeatedly led to duels , which were already forbidden at the time , are further elements of this material. These descriptions find their climax in Joseph Roth's novel Radetzkymarsch and in Arthur Schnitzler's novella Leutnant Gustl .

Irma von Höfer's often sentimental representations were popular, but called critics like Karl Kraus on the scene. Especially her newspaper feuilletons their input to the First World War to the glory of the Imperial Army wrote while her husband Franz Höfer field storm as deputy chief of staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf acted, Karl Kraus was an eyesore. Irma von Höfer is mentioned by name and sharply criticized both in his Last Judgment and in The Last Days of Mankind .

Works

  • Youth, a novel , 1907
  • Spring Storm, a novel , 1908
  • Guilt, Story of a Love , 1908
  • At the Lido , 1909.
  • In a tumble , 1910
  • In the narrow alley, a novel from the Biedermeier period , 1911
  • Officer's daughters , 1912
  • Shade Days , Berlin, Gebr. Paetel, 1915
  • The expectation , Berlin, Gebr. Paetel, 1916
  • Family Marhold , Vienna, Phillip, 1916
  • Marburg Spring, Lower Styrian Idylls, Marburg Late Autumn Days, Wurmberg Castle, Styrian Snow , Stories, in: Franz Hausmann (Ed.): Südsteirische Heimat , 1916
  • Fanny Elßler . Friedrich von Gentzen's last love dream , novel, 1921, edited from the estate.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 2, 1953
  • Johann Nagl, Jakob Zeidler, Eduard Castle : German-Austrian literary history. A handbook on the history of German poetry in Austria-Hungary . Volume 4, 1937
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, Volume 3. Complete directory of German-language literature (GV) 1700–1910, Volume 62, page 370
  • Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries . Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Munich 1979, page 647.
  • Sölch family from Zettendorf , Eger district in Bohemia . German gender book . Volume 214, 58th general volume, CA Starke Verlag Limburg an der Lahn 2002, pages 1020 and 1021
  • Wiener Zeitung (Abendpost) from February 1, 1919

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Foster: Josef Roth's Radetzkymarsch as a Historical Novel. In: Osman Durrani, Julian Preece: Travelers through time and space: the German-language historical novel. Amsterdam Contributions to Newer German Studies, Volume 51-200, Amsterdam-New York 2001, p. 359
  2. ^ Obituary in the Wiener Abendpost from February 1, 1919

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personal data
SURNAME Hofer von Feldsturm, Irmgard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irma von Höfer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Košátky , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1919
Place of death Vienna