Juliane Déry

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Juliane Déry on a painting by Franz von Stuck , around 1898

Juliane Déry (actually German or Decsy , born August 10, 1864 in Baja , Austrian Empire , † March 31, 1899 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Juliane Deutsch was born as the daughter of the German-Jewish businessman Moritz Deutsch in Baja, where she spent her childhood and wrote her first poems in Hungarian. In 1873 the family moved to Vienna and converted to Catholicism there. The family name was translated (Magyarized) into Hungarian Decsy and changed to Déry. Déry's father committed suicide after 1873. The family then lived in great poverty in Vienna, where Déry learned German, attended the “Girls 'Citizens' School” and then, until 1890, obtained her teacher’s diploma at the “Klosterschule zu St. Anna”.

Karl Emil Franzos encouraged Déry to become a writer. In 1888 he published one of her short stories in his magazine "Deutsche Dichtung". In 1890 Déry went to Paris , where, on the initiative of Princess Mathilde, she gained access to literary circles in the city, including a guest in Juliette Adam's salon . Déry did not leave Paris until 1893 and returned to Germany.

In 1893 the premiere of her one-act play, Engagement at Pignerols in Coburg, took place at the court theater of Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , who was her protector. The play was also performed at the Rezidenztheater in Berlin and made Déry known to the public as a playwright . She lived in Munich from 1895 to 1898 and "helped found the 'Intime Theater' [...]." Déry worked for the "Neue Deutsche Rundschau", "Quickborn" and S. Fischer Verlag . In Munich she was also in contact with the writers of the magazine “Die Gesellschaft” and was acquainted with Franz von Stuck , who portrayed her several times.

In 1898 Déry moved to Berlin. In Paris she was involved in the Dreyfus affair and accused of espionage. After their engagement was broken in Berlin and possibly also due to the twist in the Dreyfus trial, Déry committed suicide by falling out of the window in 1899.

Works

Novellas

  • 1888: high up (short stories)
  • 1891: Without a guide; Urban (2 novels)
  • 1891: Consent
  • 1893: Russia in Paris
  • 1895: disasters (new novellas)
  • 1900: Hans the Unlucky One (A Raven Story)

Plays

  • 1891: The engagement at Pignerols (comedy)
  • 1891: The amulet (comedy)
  • 1894: D 'Schand (Volksstück in six pictures)
  • 1896: A hoarfrost fell (drama in one act)
  • 1896: The Seven Lean Years (Drama)
  • 1897: The Seven Skinny Cows (comedy in three acts)
  • 1897: The Blessed Island (Dramatic Idyll)
  • o. J .: The stronger one (comedy)
  • o. J .: Pusztastürme ( comedy )

Dependent publications

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Juliane_Déry  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schwerte: Juliane Dery . In: Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen (eds.): Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945 . dtv, Munich 1986, p. 68.
  2. ↑ Hans Schwerte: Dery, Juliane . In: New German Biography (NDB) . Volume 3. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, p. 612.
personal data
SURNAME Déry, Juliane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Juliane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Baja , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1899
Place of death Berlin