Jo van Ammers-Küller

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Jo van Ammers-Küller (1937)

Johanna van Ammers-Küller (born August 13, 1884 in Noordeloos as Johanna Küller , † January 23, 1966 in Bakel ) was a Dutch writer .

Life

Johanna Küller, called Jo, came from a prominent family of lawyers and doctors and grew up as the only child of her parents in Delft . As a child, she wrote plays and stories and performed them with relatives and friends. She published her first short story at the age of 14. In 1906, at the age of 21, she married Rudolf van Ammers (1881–1941), with whom she moved to London and had two sons. She did not publish a play again until 1912 and wrote two more dramas and a novel over the next nine years. Ammers-Küller became internationally known in the mid-1920s with her successful novels about the life of the bourgeois Dutch middle class in the period after the First World War . She used her fame for extensive travels through Europe and the United States , where she met Franklin D. Roosevelt , among others . Many of her historical and family novels are set in upper-class circles and deal with love, marriage and women's emancipation . Her books have been translated into twelve languages, mainly into German, by Franz Dülberg and Eva Schumann , among others , but also into English, Czech and Polish.

Jo van Ammers-Küller lived in England and France for a long time . Her pro-German stance, combined with her enthusiastic support for National Socialism in the period before the Second World War and during the German occupation of the Netherlands between 1940 and 1945, led to a publication ban after the liberation , which she tried to circumvent by using a pseudonym. While this became known, she was acquitted in court for lack of evidence. It did not regain its pre-war popularity internationally.

Works

  • Novel of a student ( De roman van een student ), 1914
  • The women of the Coornvelts ( De opstandigen ), 1925, trilogy
  • The Silent Struggle ( De verzwegen stryd ), 1928
  • Women 's Crusade ( Vrouwen-kruistocht ) 1930
  • The apple and Eve ( De appel en Eva ), 1932
  • Important women of the present ( Twaalfinteresting vrouwen ), 1933 - 12 biographies, including Rosa Manus , Mary Wigman , Elsa Brändström , Yvette Guilbert
  • The Tavelinck House ( Heeren, knechten en vrouwen ), 1934–1938, trilogy
  • Elzelina ( Elzelina, de geschiedenis van een Hollandsche vrouw in de jaren 1776-1845 ), 1940
  • Ma , 1943
  • Experienced and seen from the Dutch East Indies , 1943, Meinhold Verlagsgesellschaft Dresden
  • as Adriaan Hulshoff (pseudonym): Dorstig paradijs. Een Curaçaose roman. Strengholt, Amsterdam 1949
  • Kolibri auf Goldenes Nest ( De kolibrie op het gouden nest ), 1951, biography of Karl Wilhelm Naundorff
  • Prinz Inkognito , 1960, Fackelverlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Ammers-Küller, Jo van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ammers-Küller, Johanna van (full name); Küller, Johanna (maiden name); Hulshoff, Adriaan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Noordeloos
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1966
Place of death Bakel