Leonie Meyerhof

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Leonie Meyerhof (pseudonym Leo Hildeck ; born March 2, 1858 or 1860 in Hildesheim , † August 15, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer, literary critic , playwright and women's rights activist. In plays, novels and newspaper articles, she reflected the traditional image of women with a fine sense of humor and was a widely read author at the time.

Life

Leonie Meyerhof grew up as the youngest of five siblings in a German-Jewish family. Her father Magnus Meyerhof was a merchant in Hildesheim. Her mother Carolina, b. Schwabe, who inspired her artistically, died in 1877. Leonie attended the secondary school for girls in Hildesheim and received drawing lessons from the sculptor Prof. Friedrich Küsthardt . She took courses in art and literary history and philosophy. In 1886/87 she moved with her father to Frankfurt am Main , where her sister, the painter Agnes Meyerhof , also worked. After the death of her father in 1900, Leonie Meyerhof first lived in Munich, then mostly again in Frankfurt am Main, including Berlin.

Under the pseudonym Leo Hildeck , later under her own name, she achieved literary importance in her time. In the 1920s in particular, she wrote literary reviews and smaller articles on the situation of women for the Frankfurter Zeitung, which was then considered liberal and progressive .

Her play Sie hat Talent (1888) became famous. Her most popular work was the now-forgotten "Munich novel" Töchter der Zeit (1903). Anna Costenoble's illustrated “Women's Breviary for Men-Hostile Hours”, Penthesileia (1907), was published anonymously and had five editions within two years. The fate of women also received a lot of attention . From a consultation in “Mutterschutz” (Frankfurt, 1913), in which she defended Helene Stöcker's emancipatory work for unmarried mothers. Also lyrics for compositions by Rudolph Bergh or the font Hoheh! - Strike! (Berlin, 1919) come from her versatile pen.

The city of Hildesheim has named a Leonie-Meyerhof-Ring after its former citizen, from whose family Otto Meyerhof , the Nobel laureate in biochemistry, also comes.

Works (selection)

  • Off the beaten path. Two stories (under the pseudonym Leo Hildeck). Heinrich Minden, Dresden 1894
  • She has talent. Comedy in one act . Reclam, Leipzig 1888
  • The golden cage and other short stories , 1892
  • Pillar of fire. The story of a bad person by Leo Hildeck , Roman. Heinrich Minden, Dresden a. Leipzig 1895
  • Dragonflies (under the pseudonym Leo Hildeck). Heinrich Minden, undated [1898]
  • Evening storm. Acting . Scheller, 1899
  • Autumn confession. A romance novel . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin 1900
  • Daughters of time. Munich novel . Cotta, Stuttgart 1903
  • The ever-living . Novel. Cotta, Stuttgart 1905
  • Wayward hearts . Novel. Hillger, Berlin et al. 1906
  • Penthesileia. A women's training course for lessons that are hostile to men (anonymous), 1907
  • The Unforgettable , novel (in 32 episodes) in the Rigas Latest News № 213 from September 16 to № 244 from October 22, 1909
  • Fate of women. From a consultation in the "maternity leave" . In: Frankfurter Zeitung of August 17, 1913 (3. Morgenblatt 1–2); Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt a. M. 1913
  • I come first! Four proofs by Leo Hildeck , four one-act plays ( The Dog Whistle ; The Other ; Isle of the Blessed ; Fräulein Theory ). Institution for the right to perform dramatic works of literature and music, Charlottenburg [Berlin] o. J. [1913?] ( Digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • First I come !. Four one-act plays . Baer, ​​Frankfurt undated [1913?]
  • Hoheh! - Strike! . Streisand, Berlin undated [1919]

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Meyerhof, Miss Leonie . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 43 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Meyerhof, Leonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildeck, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1933
Place of death Frankfurt am Main