Isolde Kurz

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Isolde Maria Klara Kurz (born December 21, 1853 in Stuttgart , † April 6, 1944 in Tübingen ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Isolde Kurz was the second of five children and the only daughter of the writer and librarian Hermann Kurz and his wife Marie Kurz , b. Freiin von Brunnow, born. Marie Kurz, who came from an old noble family and was also a great-great-great-niece of the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and great-granddaughter of his nephew, Colonel Heinrich Reinhard Ritter and Edler von Oetinger (1738–1796), taught her daughter herself.

Isolde lived in Stuttgart for five and a half years until the family moved to Oberesslingen in the spring of 1859, after two moves within Stuttgart . She later described her childhood there as idyllic, but not free from conflicts between the free-spirited lifestyle and upbringing style of her parents and the down-to-earth views of the village population.

Some time after the death of her father in 1873 Isolde Kurz moved to Munich , where her brother Erwin lived as an art student, in order to earn a living with translations and language lessons. From her first fee she had a marble monument erected for her father in the old cemetery in Tübingen. A year later, together with her mother and youngest brother, she accepted an invitation from her brother Edgar to Italy. He had recently settled in Florence as a doctor and ran a practice.

In Italy she socialized with Adolf von Hildebrand , Hans von Marées , Arnold Böcklin and Jacob Burckhardt , read Jacob Burckhardt's Renaissance culture in Italy at the women's table at the Biblioteca Nazionale , wandered through the galleries with the teacher and artist Althofen and planned one with him Draft Cicerone .

After Althofen's sudden death, she used the researched material to create her “ Florentine Novellas ”, which were published by Cotta in 1890.

This was her third independent publication. In 1888 she had already published her first volume of poems and also in 1890 at Göschen in Stuttgart the collected “Fantasies and Fairy Tales”, which had first appeared in magazines. In the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi , she met Eleonora Duse and the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio .

In 1904 she edited two volumes of poetry by her brother, who was almost a year older than her, the physician and poet Edgar Kurz , who had died in the same year.

After 1905 she lived with her mother, whom she looked after until her death in 1911, alternately in Munich and in the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi.

In 1911 her childhood friend Ernst von Mohl returned from Russia as a widower and stood by her as a partner until his death in 1929. Together they went on a trip to Greece in 1912 . In June 1933 Isolde Kurz was appointed to the Prussian Academy of the Arts , which was restructured according to the will of the NSDAP . In the opinion of the literary critic Tilman Krause , Kurz had hardly any difficulties during the Nazi era "to tune into the 'new spirit'". Her relationship to the National Socialist regime is definitely ambivalent. She wrote the eulogy for the Fuehrer's 50th birthday only under pressure from the President of the Reich Chamber of Literature Hanns Johst . In her calendar she noted: “The whole day long harassed by the Führer poem published by the Reichsschrifttumskammer, because I see that I cannot avoid the task.” Theodor Heuss already suggested her eightieth birthday in his letter of November 24, 1933 to Otto Meißner ("Suggestion to the Presidential Chancellery") the official honor of Isolde Kurz. It was not until ten years later that she received the Goethe Medal donated by Hindenburg from Joseph Goebbels ' hand . Although she remained a recognized writer in the Third Reich, she had previously signed the French manifesto against “excesses of nationalism, for Europe and for understanding between France and Germany” as well as the appeals “against anti-Semitism” and “for ostracism the means of war ”.

Isolde Kurz died in the night of April 5th to 6th 1944. She was buried in the Tübingen city cemetery.

Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Awards and honors

Translations

  • Ippolito Nievo : Memories of an eighty year old. Translated into German by I. Kurz . 2 parts. Grunow, Leipzig 1877
  • Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray : History of the Commune of 1871. Authorized German edition and completed by the author . W. Bracke jr., Braunschweig 1877
  • Marchesa Colombi : An ideal. Novel. Authorized processing according to the Italian by Isolde Kurz . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1885
  • Giovanni Verga : Your husband. Novel. Authorized processing according to the Italian by Isolde Kurz . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1885
  • Francesco De Renzis: On outposts and other stories. Authorized translation from Italian by I. Kurz . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1891

Works

  • 1888 poems
  • 1890 Florentine novellas
  • 1895 Italian stories
  • 1900 From then. stories
  • 1901 Our Carlotta
  • 1902 The City of Life: Depictions from the Florentine Renaissance
  • 1902 Frutti di mare
  • 1902 recovery. His mortal enemy and guilty of thought.
  • 1905 In the sign of the Capricorn: aphorisms
  • 1905 New poems
  • 1906 Hermann Kurz: a contribution to his life story
  • 1907 Floods of Life: Novellas
  • 1908 Lilith's children. A poem
  • 1910 Florentine Memories
  • 1910 The humanists
  • 1913 hiking days in Hellas
  • 1914 Two fairy tales
  • 1914 German sword 1914. Singing for Barÿton or unanimous male choir with orchestra accompaniment. Composed by Peter Gast . (Text: Isolde Kurz)
  • 1915 Cora. stories
  • 1916 sword out of its scabbard: poems
  • 1918 From my youth country
  • 1919 dreamland
  • 1922 nights of Fondi
  • 1924 The lovers and the fool
  • 1924 From the beach. stories
  • 1925 The despot . Georg Müller, Munich
  • 1925 Collected Works . 6 vols.
  • 1926 my mother
  • 1927 The hour of the invisible. Strange stories
  • 1928 From the early days. stories
  • 1929 A genius of love. The dwelling place for the dead friend
  • 1929 The Pan's call. Two stories of love and death
  • 1931 Vanadis. The fate of a woman
  • 1933 The night in the carpet room. Experiences of a hiker
  • 1935 Collected Works (6 volumes)
  • 1938 The pilgrimage to the unattainable. Life review
  • 1938 Collected Works . 8 vols.
  • 1939 The house of Atreus
  • 2003 A sliver of paradise, stories and memories from Florence at the turn of the century , Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig (selected volume)
  • 2016 Wegwarte: 50 timeless poems , Martin Werhand Verlag, Melsbach

literature

in order of appearance

  • Rudolf Frank : Isolde Kurz on his 60th birthday on December 21st . Berlin 1913.
  • Otto Ernst Hesse: Isolde Kurz. Thanks to a woman . Wunderlich, Tübingen 1931.
  • Angela Koller: Longing and southern experience at Isolde Kurz . Dissertation at the University of Zurich , 1963.
  • In short, Isolde . In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler , Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945 . dtv, Munich 1986, pp. 168–170, ISBN 3-423-03282-0 .
  • Marion Ónodi: Isolde Kurz. Life and prose as an expression of the contemporary and human-individual situation from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1989, ISBN 3-631-41608-3 (= Würzburg University Papers on Modern German Literature History , Volume 11).
  • Isolde Kurz . In: Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon . Volume 7. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh / Munich 1990, pp. 98-99, ISBN 3-570-04677-X / ISBN 3-570-03707-X .
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Isolde Kurz. German woman of the pen . In: Maja Riepl-Schmidt (Hrsg.): Against the overcooked and ironed out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 124-135 .
  • Sandra L. Singer: Free soul, free women? A study of selected fictional works by Hedwig Dohm, Isolde Kurz, and Helene Böhlau . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 0-8204-2557-5 .
  • Eva Walter: Isolde Kurz and her family. Biography . Stieglitz, Mühlacker 1996, ISBN 3-7987-0331-0 .
  • Rainer Hillenbrand: Isolde Kurz as the narrator. An overview . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-631-36773-5 .
  • Hella Mohr: Difficulties of an emancipated woman at the transition from the 19th to the 20th century . On the occasion of Isolde Kurz's 150th birthday (December 21, 1853 to April 6, 1944), ISBN 3-00-012211-7 . online at: Lecture manuscript 2003 .
  • Gerhard J. Bellinger , Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstrasse and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today. Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , pp. 205-207.
  • In the inner home or nowhere. Isolde Kurz (1853-1944) . With contributions by Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Jutta Bendt and a chronicle by Karin Schmidgall. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach 2003, ISBN 3-933679-92-3 (catalog for the exhibition “In der Innere Heimat or Nirgends”. Isolde Kurz (1853–1944) , Schiller National Museum, Marbach am Neckar, December 7, 2003 to December 14, 2003). March 2004).
  • Inge Jens: Isolde Kurz in Tübingen . In: Sönke Lorenz, Volker Schäfer (Ed.): Tubingensia. Impulses for city and university history; Festschrift for Wilfried Setzler . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-5510-4 , pp. 523-536 .
  • Gabriele Freiin von Koenig-Warthausen:  Briefly, Isolde. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 332-334 ( digitized version ).
  • Christina Ujma: Florence, the Renaissance and Renaissanceism in Isolde Kurz 'novellas, short stories and essays . In: Yearbook for International German Studies , vol. 1 (2015), pp. 41–60.
  • Irene Ferchl: A childhood memory. Isolde Kurz. In: Dies .: Narrated city. Stuttgart's literary places . Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8425-1382-2 , pp. 42–43.
  • Dominik Schäffer: Isolde Kurz , In: Stefan Molitor (Ed.): The Swabian Poet Circle of 1938 and its denazification. Accompanying publication to the exhibition of the Ludwigsburg State Archives from June 5 to September 6, 2019. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-17-036527-8 , pp. 50–53.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlatter, Dora: Marie Kurz, [nee Freiin von Brunnow]: a picture of life. Basel u. a .: Reinhardt, [1907]. (From noble women; 2)
  2. ↑ Isolde Kurz: From my youth country. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart / Berlin 1918. Especially p. 24 and p. 29ff. [1]
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Neuestes Tageblatt of June 10, 1933. Quoted from Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1966, p. 35.
  4. ^ Tilman Krause: Only Italy could redeem , Literary World , July 28, 2012, p. 4
  5. ↑ Quoted from: Jutta Bendt: In the inner home or nowhere. Isolde Kurz (1853–1944) , in: Marbacher Magazin 104, p. 66.
  6. ↑ See ibid., P. 63.
  7. ↑ Gabriele Katz: Stuttgart's strong women . Theiss, Darmstadt 2015, p. 37 .
  8. ^ Karl Marx Friedrich Engels correspondence with Wilhelm Bracke (1869–1880). On behalf of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED ed. and introduced by Heinrich Gemkow . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963 (= Bücherei des Marxismus-Leninismus Volume 62), pp. 102, 104, 106–110, 116–119, 123–125, 132–135, 144–146, 149, 152–153 and 158
personal data
SURNAME In short, Isolde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurz, Isolde Maria Klara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1944
Place of death Tübingen