Liesbet dill

Liesbet dill

Liesbet Dill (born March 28, 1877 in Dudweiler / Saar, † April 15, 1962 in Wiesbaden ; actually Elisabeth Pauline Dill) was a German writer . She was a very productive Saarland writer who was widely read in her day.

life and work

Liesbet Dill was the daughter of the wealthy Dudweiler estate and brewery owner Friedrich Wilhelm Dill. She spent her childhood in the prestigious former princely hunting lodge ("Nassauer Hof") in Dudweiler. The family belonged to the thin class of the wealthy and educated middle class. She attended the secondary school for girls in Saarbrücken and then an English boarding school in Wiesbaden. In 1897 she married the Saarbrücken district judge and later Senate President at the Hamm Higher Regional Court, Gustav Seibert. From this marriage she had two children, Curt Seibert , among other things the author of numerous collections of anecdotes and joke books. a. Bonifazius Kiesewetter , Paramedic Neumann , and Dr. Claus Seibert , most recently judge at the Federal Court of Justice; one of her grandchildren is the lawyer Ulrich Seibert . After the divorce she married the medical officer and later professor of medicine Wilhelm von Drigalski in 1905 . Her second husband, later also the Hessian Minister of Social Affairs, paved her way into the first social circles of the Reich. With him she moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1925 . After 1942 the couple moved back to Wiesbaden and Liesbet Dill worked as a lecturer for the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart . Liesbet Dill was a member of the German group of the PEN Club founded in 1930 .

From 1903 to 1962 Liesbet Dill wrote over a hundred novels and stories, books for young people and travel sketches.

Literary creation was dominated by two basic themes:

1. The role of women in society (early 20th century)
2. The fate of the borderland of Saarland and Lorraine

Your work is classified as entertainment and trivial literature. Their basic theme, the natural, not ideologically motivated rebellion of young women against the subordinate and dependent role of women, especially in the Wilhelmine era, goes beyond pure entertainment literature. The biography of Helmut Lissmann from 2009 pays tribute to the work of Liesbet Dill against the backdrop of the empire and in its cultural-historical references. He draws comparisons with other women writers of their time, Thea von Harbou , Clara Viebig , Ida Boy-Ed , Agnes Miegel , Gabriele Reuter . Lissmann sums up (p. 133f.): “Liesbet Dill illustrates in a large part of her work the role of women in the Wilhelmine era. Under her pen a multifaceted picture of the existence of women, their role in society and the associated problems typical of the time emerges . She chooses her examples preferably, but not exclusively, from among the representatives of her (upper) circles. .. She impressively depicts the tutelage, control and oppression of women. Again and again she points out the lack of educational and professional development opportunities and objects to the obvious and emphatic refusal of independently determined female life prospects. So she also reveals that the security of the so-called higher daughter in the family ultimately only served to practice the subordinate role that she had to play in her later life. … Liesbet Dill's literary work did not limit herself to the portrayal of contemporary women's fates, but also demonstrated empathy and understanding for the male role of the time, which was also subject to strong constraints. She is not a women's rights activist or an enemy of men, but a sensitive, compassionate observer of her social environment. It gives us a realistic picture of the state of the officers and notables society around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, of their customs and traditions, their diversions, their prejudices and their caste-based thinking, their social rituals between the officers' mess, tennis courts, redoubts and hunting grounds. and riding events. "

However, her books have largely been forgotten today. The novel "Virago", which was reprinted in 2005, is an exception.

In the 1950s, a street was named after her in her birthplace Dudweiler . In 2007, the Dudweiler district administration acquired the joint gravestone of Liesbet Dills and her husband and transferred it from Wiesbaden to Dudweiler to give it a place of honor in the cemetery.

Works

• Lo's marriage, novel 1903
• First Lieutenant Grote, Roman 1904
• One of Too Many, 1907 novel
• The Little Town, Tragedy of a Man of Taste, 1907 novel
• Unburned letters, epistolary novel 1909
• Virago, novel 1913
  • New edition: Virago. Roman from the Saar area . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2005, ISBN 978-3-86110-392-9 .
• Freedom, 1911
• The day in Nancy, 1915
• The wallet, novel 1915
• Franziska, Roman, 1916
• Confessions of Baroness de Brionne, epistle novel 1917
• The Spy, novel 1917
• Lolotte, novel 1918
• Frau Doktor, Roman 1919
• Rose Ferron, novel first part 1919
• Rose Ferron, Novel, Part Two, 1920
• A mother's diary, 1920
• The lost land, 1920
• The valet and other short stories, 1920
• The Herweghs, A story on the right bank of the Rhine, 1922
• Women who do not age, short biographies 1923
• Marie Antoinette, the death of a queen, historical novel 1923
• The Teskow case, novel, 1924
• The border post, Roman, 1925
• The locked door, 1925
• Lorraine Novellas, 1926
• Between five and seven, novel 1927
• Pension Quisiana, novel 1927
• A fateful evening, novel 1929
• Shining days, novel 1928
• The fire on the Moselhof, Roman 1929
• The Black Madonna of the Saar, 1933
• We from the Saar, novel 1934
• The tenor, novel 1935
• A strange encounter, 1937
• A night in a strange city, 1938
• Love, novel 1939
• From the joys of everyday life, 1940
• Cardinal and Queen, Marie Antoinette's Collar Affair, Historical Novel 1942
• Liselotte von der Pfalz, historical novel 1944
• The Discovery, 1944 novel
• The singer Franziska Rott, Roman 1959
• The house without a face and other short stories without a year
• Lorraine border pictures, no year
• The young man without a heart, diary, no year
• Most, a novel from the Moselle, without a year

literature

• Günter Scholdt: Liesbet Dill, the borderland poet. In: 1000 years of Dudweiler 977–1977 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag. Saarbrücken 1977. pp. 355-365.
• Günter Scholdt: Liesbet Dill. In: Peter Neumann (Ed.): Saarländische Lebensbilder, Volume 3. Saarbrücken 1986.
• Helmut Lissmann: Neunkirchen as the literary background to Liesbet Dill's novel “Virago”. 2002.
• Helmut Lissmann: Liesbet Dill: A writer from the Saarland (1877–1962). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8370-3254-3 .
• Marlene Hübel: The brittle idyll of the little ladies' circle Liesbet Dill (1877 - 1962) , in: FEDERführerEND 19 authors from the Rhine , ed. Marlene Hübel and Jens Frederiksen, Ingelheim 2007, pp. 29–33.
• Lisbeth Dill , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/1975 of March 17, 1975, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Helmut Sauer: Liesbet Dill and Dudweiler, "Historical Contributions" Dudweiler History Workshop, Volume 12, Pages 31 - 33, Dudweiler 2012

Web links

• Liesbet Dill in the Saarland biographies
• Literature by Liesbet Dill and literature on Liesbet Dill in the Saarland Bibliography
• Review: Liesbet Dill - Virago
• Literature by and about Liesbet Dill in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia Online. De Gruyter Saur, ISSN 2193-2832 (accessed via de Gruyter online).
2. ↑ Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. , Volume 6, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York / Boston 2004, DOI: 10.1515 / dllo.zw.006.458 (accessed online from de Gruyter ).