Liana von Gentzkow

Liane Johanna Maria Olga von Gentzkow (born January 1, 1888 in Neisse , † after 1943) was a German-ethnic writer who worked between 1917 and 1942.

Life

Liane von Gentzkow was the daughter of the Prussian major general Alexander von Gentzkow and his wife Marie Viktoria, nee. Wegner. The von Gentzkow family moved to Berlin in 1879 , where Liane attended the secondary school for girls until 1904 . She was not employed until her father's death in 1910 and then traveled to Italy with her mother . In the First World War she was involved in the national women's service . After the war she worked in welfare work; From 1919 to 1924, she took care of disabled people in the First World War at the Central Office for Private Welfare in Berlin . In 1925 she became an employee of the news agency Frauenpresse in Berlin; she left there in 1936 because of her anti-Semitic convictions, because the agency employed Jewish colleagues, and from then on worked as a freelance writer. She wrote biographies of women, wrote novels and propaganda books for young people. According to the last known publication in 1942, she is said to have lost her Berlin apartment in a bomb hit in August 1943 and left Berlin; so their track is lost. The year and place of death are not known.

Fonts

• Curse of the beautiful are facts , 1917
• The demons are moving ... A German fate retold from an old chronicle , 1928
• The Messenger of God. St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , 1931
• Christine Wasa. The life picture of a Nordic woman , 1934
• Migration period and early Middle Ages royal women , 1936
• The Condottiere , 1936 (2nd edition 1942)
• Caterina Sforza. A heroic woman's life , 1937
• Germanic princesses. Pictures of Life , 1937
• Curse of beauty. Famous and Infamous Women of the Renaissance , 1939
• Love and bravery. Women around German soldiers , 1940
• The German girl. From the early days to the present , 1941
• Comrade in war and peace. German woman spirit , 1942

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch et al .: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century , Volume 11: Gellert-Gorski, Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 31/32 (digitized version)
• Ellen de Visser: Woman and War. Female war aesthetics, female racism and anti-Semitism. A psychoanalytical-depth-hermeneutical literature analysis , Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 1997.