Karin Michaëlis

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Karin Michaëlis (born March 20, 1872 in Randers as Katharina Marie Bech-Brondum , † January 11, 1950 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish journalist and writer.

Life

The daughter of the telegraph clerk and eminent Freemason Jacob Anthoniusen Brøndum squinted as a child and was successfully taken care of by Dr. Gad operates in Horsens .

In 1892 she moved to Copenhagen, where she met the writer Sophus Michaëlis (1865–1932) and married in 1895. The couple earned their living mainly from theater reviews . In 1911 they divorced and Michaëlis married the American diplomat Charles Emil Stangeland. Stangeland did not like his wife's literary and political activity, who was making her breakthrough as an author at this time with "A Dangerous Age". They separated in 1917.

On her first European reading tour, she met the pedagogue Eugenie Schwarzwald in Vienna , and a lifelong friendship developed from this. During the First World War Michaëlis was charitable in Austria. In 1932 she received the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Order of the White Lion in Czechoslovakia .

In 1919 she accompanied Helene Weigel , a student of the Black Forest, to the audition in Vienna's Volksbühne and wrote about it in the Vossische Zeitung . This also established a friendship.

In May / June 1929 she stayed in the Dr. Kohnstamm in Königstein im Taunus .

Karin Michaëlis warned early on of the danger posed by Mussolini and Hitler . In 1932 she took part in the anti-war congress in Amsterdam. From 1933 she took in German emigrants on her property on Thurø , including Bertolt Brecht , Helene Weigel and Maria Lazar . In 1940 she emigrated to America herself and returned to Denmark in 1946.

plant

Michaëlis wrote 35 novels.

In 1910 she published "The dangerous age". The book caused quite a stir because it broached taboo subjects such as the sexual desires of a woman of 40. The novel has been translated many times and has been filmed several times, including in 1927 as a silent film with the same title with Asta Nielsen .

Michaelis was also successful with a series of books from 1929 to 1938 about the development of the girl Bibi .

Mathilde Mann translated (selection):

  • Rachel. A ghetto novel. Berlin 1910, online
  • Betty Rosa , Berlin 1908
  • Thumbelina , Berlin 1909
  • Spouses , Berlin 1919
  • Elsie Lindtner , Berlin 1911
  • Mentally poor , Berlin 1903
  • Count Sylvain's Revenge , Munich 1913
  • Gyda , Leipzig 1905
  • The young woman Jonna , Leipzig [a. a.] 1908
  • The child , Berlin [u. a.] 1902
  • The fate of Ulla Fangel , Berlin [u. a.] 1903
  • Above all understanding , Berlin 1908
  • A night scandal , Berlin 1892
Documentation, diary and letters
  • The dangerous age: diary entries and letters from a forty-year-old woman . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-45710-1 , online .
  • Victim. War and peace works on the Danube. Vienna 1917, online
filming

literature

  • Birgit S. Nielsen: Bert Brecht and Helene Weigel's friendship with Karin Michaëlis. A literary-human relationship in exile , in: Edith Böhne (Ed.): The arts and sciences in exile 1933–1945 . Gerlingen: Schneider, 1992, pp. 71-96

Web links

Commons : Karin Michaëlis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Michaëlis: The little goblin - memoirs, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-933056-67-5 , p. 281
  2. ↑ ibid. Chapter 4, “The Operation”, p. 35 f.
  3. ↑ Superwomen 8 - Biographies of Famous Women Writers
  4. ↑ Dr. Benno (Bernhard) Spinak (1884 Warsaw - 1963 Lucerne ) was the attending physician at the time. Information from the Königstein city archive
  5. ↑ fembio.org
personal data
SURNAME Michaëlis, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bech-Brondum, Katharina Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Randers
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1950
Place of death Copenhagen