Laura Marholm
Laura Marholm (actually: Laura Mohr, married Hansson; another pseudonym: "Leonhard Marholm", * 1854 in Riga ; † October 6, 1928 in Jūrmala , Latvia) was a German-Baltic author.
Life
Laura Marholm grew up as the daughter of the Danish ship's captain Frederik Mohr and his wife Amalie, b. Roeder, in Riga. There she attended a seminar for teachers as a “German-speaking Danish-Russian woman from Latvia”. After her training, she worked for the newspaper for town and country . The successful publication of her first play gave her access to editorial work at various newspapers.
Laura Marholm moved to Copenhagen in 1885. There she met the Swedish writer Ola Hansson , whom she married in autumn 1889. A short time later she and her husband moved to Germany and had their son Ola (born September 8, 1890). The couple lived in Friedrichshagen near Berlin from 1891 to 1893 . There Laura Marholm joined the Friedrichshagener poet circle , in which August Strindberg was a frequent guest. In Berlin, with idiosyncratic, women's rights and pacifist books and essays, she developed into a well-known writer of comparable popularity to Ellen Key .
After Ola Hansson's break with August Strindberg, she and her husband moved to Schliersee in Bavaria in 1895 . In 1898 the couple converted to Catholicism. A year later they moved to Munich. Suffering from fear of persecution, Laura Marholm was transferred to an institution in April 1905 for several months. As a result, she lived in Meudon near Paris and in Riga . She only took up her writing activity to a limited extent.
Laura Marholm was in contact with important Scandinavian artists and writers of her time. a. with Georg Brandes , Edvard Munch and Arne Garborg .
Works
- Johann Reinhold Patkul , tragedy (double drama : Gertrud Lindenstern and Patkuls death ), 1879–1880
- Mrs. Marianne , Drama 1882
- The book of women. Portraits of contemporary psychology , Albert Langen, Paris and Leipzig 1894 (pre-dated to 1895)
- We women and our poets . 1895
- Karla Bühring , Drama 1895
- Mrs. Lilly as a virgin, wife and mother , 1896
- On the psychology of women , 2 parts, 1897 and 1903
- The way to Altötting and other short stories , 1900
- Book of the Dead , 1900
- Women in the Social Movement , 1900
items
- The farmer in literature . In: The art warden. Rundschau über all areas of beauty , 4th year, June 2nd issue 1891, pp. 273–277
literature
- Susan Brantly: The Life and Writings of Laura Marholm . Basel 1991 (German: Laura Marholm. Her life and works . Berlin, edition friedrichshagen, 2004)
- Peter Sprengel: Mohr, Laura. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 711 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Gerd-Hermann Susen (Ed.): Wilhelm Bölsche . Correspondence with authors of the Freie Bühne. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag 2010 (letters and comments), pp. 564–589.
- Edith Wack: Laura Marholm and the ›women's question‹. On the history of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama "Lonely People". In: Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann Jahrbuch, Vol. 6. Włocławek 2012, pp. 135–179
- Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, pp. 925-926.
Web links
- Literature by and about Laura Marholm in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marholm, Laura |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mohr, Laura (real name); Hansson, Laura (married name); Marholm, Leonhard (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1928 |
| Place of death | Jūrmala , Latvia |