Julie Virginie Scheuermann

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Julia Virginia Scheuermann (around 1912)

Julie Virginie Scheuermann (pseudonym: Julia Virginia ; born April 1, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 23, 1942 ) was a German poet, painter, translator and author on the subject of women's literature.

family

On her mother's side, she came from the old Frankfurt patrician family Bromm, who had become rich from the 15th century with international wholesalers ( Venice and Genoa ) and also played a politically important role in the city during the Reformation as partisans of the Lutheran side. The family accommodated the reformer Philipp Melanchthon on his way to and from the Reichstag in Worms (1521) in their Frankfurt headquarters . Her father Wilhelm Scheuermann was a court advisor in Frankfurt.

Life

The multi-talented, linguistically gifted artist first studied painting and sculpture with Karl Ludwig Sand in Kassel and Munich and with Professor Gustav Eberlein in Berlin, and quickly became a sought-after portraitist, whose works were shown in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1900. She portrayed in the form of busts and reliefs a. a. the author Ludwig Fulda , the poet composer Victor von Woikowsky-Biedau , the Frankfurt Senate President Diehl and the author Hermann Sudermann . Around the turn of the century, Franz von Lenbach, a fellow painter, made a half-act of her, a portrait that shows her as a nymph with vines in her hair and a fox skin. A memorial plaque for Richard Wagner , which was unveiled on July 9, 1910 in Bad Ems, comes from her.

She married a French banker and lived for a few years in Paris under the name Virginia Fould. After his death she returned to her hometown Frankfurt.

At the same time she began to write and from 1898 was one of the authors of the Schuster & Löffler publishing house in Berlin. Under her stage name Julia Virginia she published a number of volumes with her own poems. She has translated, among other things, poems and the novel Der Künstler by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko into German, as well as diary notes and the correspondence between the Russian painter Marie Bashkirtseff and the French writer Guy de Maupassant . She edited the poems of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and published a highly regarded anthology on contemporary German women's poetry.

She was a member of the Berliner Frauenclub von 1900 eV. Her circle of friends included u. a. Richard Dehmel , Detlev von Liliencron , Paul Heyse , Wilhelm von Scholz and Josephine Levy-Rathenau . In 1922 she married Richard Laengsdorff, an acquaintance from childhood, and has called herself "Julia Virginia Laengsdorff" ever since. After 1938 the traces of her life disappear. In Marbach Literature Archive and in the Hamburg State Archive there are some letters and manuscripts of her. Shortly before her death on April 23, 1942, she bequeathed a letter from the philosopher to the Schopenhauer Museum.

Works (selection)

Books

  • Primitia, Poems, 1903
  • Sturm und Stern, Gedichte, Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin, 1905. Newly edited with an afterword. by Nikola Roßbach. Hamburg, Igel-Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-86815-717-8
  • Women's poetry of our time, Berlin, Leipzig 1907
  • Annette Freiin von Droste-Hülshoff - Poems Virginia, Julia (Hg / Einl) Berlin-Leipzig, Hermann Seemann Nachf, (1907)
  • Maria Bashkirtseff diary sheets and correspondence with Guy de Maupassant, Seemann Verlag, 1910
  • Selected poems by Taras Shevchenko . From the Ukrainian. Leipzig 1911. In Xenien-Verlag. 108 p. With 7 plates.
  • The Colorful Ribbon, Poems, 1913

Articles and lectures

  • Thoughts on Goya , Berlin, 1928
  • Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein on her 70th birthday. In: Frau und Gegenwart, 25, 1928/29.
  • The Roederstein, Westermannsmonthshefte, Braunschweig, September 1929
  • Small Schopenhauer Memory, 19th yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society 1932
  • From old German culinary art, in "Deutsche Heimatküche" by Ernst Marquardt. Societäts-Verlag Frankfurt, 1935
  • Frankfurt women heads, Frankfurter Zeitung. City Gazette No. 204, August 1936

literature

Web links

Commons : Julie Virginie Scheuermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Holzmann, Hanns Bohatta (Ed.): German Pseudonym Lexicon . Academic publishing house, Vienna / Leipzig 1906, p. 144 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b Schopenhauer yearbook. No. 30. Frankfurt, 1943, p. 299, ( Google snippet ).
  3. ↑ Bernhard Schuster (Ed.): The music . 9th year, 4th quarterly volume , volume 36 (1909–1910), issue 22. Schuster and Loeffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1910 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Scheuermann, Julie Virginie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheuermann, Julia Virginia (maiden name); Fould, Julia Virginia (1st married name); Laengsdorff, Julia Virginia (later name); Julia-Virginia (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and painter, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1942