Josi from Koskull

Josi von Koskull , actually Josepha Benita Baroness von Koskull (born June 22, 1898 in Tergeln ( Tārgale ), Windau district , Courland ; † 1996 in Berlin ), was a German-Baltic translator of Russian literature who also worked as a writer - partly under the Pseudonym Peter Weibel - emerged and worked as a librarian in Berlin since 1919.

Life

Josepha, called Josi, the daughter of Alexander Freiherr von Koskull (1873-1928) and his wife Hermine Catharina Harriet Baronin von Koskull, born Baroness von Nolcken (* 1876), was educated by private tutors until 1911 and then attended the Fräuleinstift Finn . From 1921 to 1924 she lived in Weimar and was otherwise active in Berlin from 1919 on in the three areas mentioned above.

From September 3 to 5, 1944, Josi von Koskull was in the Gestapo prison in connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 .

From 1945 she worked as a freelance writer.

Work (selection)

• 1941 Summer on Oesel. narrative
• 1948 Young Pushkin. biography
• 1960 Baltic fairy tales. Part 1: Latvian fairy tales

Editor

• 1964 Haunted houses in the Baltic States. Experience reports and messages . The Baltic Library. Vol. 8, 14

Translations

• Pushkin
  • 1946 Dubrovsky . Novel fragment (1833: Дубровский )
  • 1949 The postman (1831: Станционный смотритель )
  • 1947 Count Nulin . A story in verse (1827: Граф Нулин )
• Leskov stories
  • 1947 The trailblazer (1873: Очарованный странник )
  • 1950 The Iron Will (1876: Железная воля )
• 1949 Chekhov : Kashtanka . Story (1887: Каштанка )
• Gleb Uspenski :
  • 1952 New times, new worries. Eight stories (1873: Новые времена, новые заботы ).
  • 1953 The ruin. Sketches from provincial life (1870: Разоренье. Очерки провинциальной жизни ).
  • 1958 The Road of the Lost (1866: Нравы Растеряевой улицы ).
• Konstantin Paustowski
  • 1955 distant years: memories of childhood and youth (1946: Далекие годы )
  • 1962 Restless youth. Memories (1954: Беспокойная юность )
  • 1983 The time of great expectations (1958: Время больших ожиданий )

• 1955 Afanassi Lasarewitsch Koptelow: The great migration . Novel (1935: Великое кочевье )
• 1956 Pyotr Ivanovich Samoiski: The Shepherd Boy . Narrative. Part 1 of the autobiography (1939: Подпасок )
• 1959 Nikolai Kornejewitsch Tschukowski: Under the Baltic sky. Novel (1955 Балтийское небо )

literature

• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 713 .

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Josi von Koskull. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Koskull, Josepha Benita Baronesse from . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• From the autobiography of Josepha von Koskull in the LeMO with a photo of the author:
  • The 1938 pogrom night in Berlin
  • Letter censorship during World War II
  • Racial Policy and Persecution of the Jews
  • General Lindemann and July 20, 1944
  • Bomb raids on Berlin