Lili du Bois-Reymond

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Elisabeth "Lili" Hermine du Bois-Reymond, b. Hensel (born June 24, 1864 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † October 22, 1948 in Zurich ) was a German writer.

Life

Lili Hensel was born in 1864 as the youngest child of the landowner Sebastian Hensel , son of the composer Fanny Hensel and the painter Wilhelm Hensel and great-grandson of the entrepreneur and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn , and his wife "Julie", born of Juliette Adelson (1836-1901), a daughter of the Russian Consul General in Königsberg i. Pr., Born. When Lili Hensel was six years old, the family moved to Berlin because the location of the property in the Pregel valley had a negative impact on the family's health, which is why Sebastian Hensel sold the property.

Lili Hensel grew up in an educated environment. In 1886 the almost 30 years older engineer- poet Max Eyth (1836–1906) fell in love with her. He described her as "lively and intellectual". She didn't even notice his interest. Instead, she married the electrical engineer and patent attorney Alard du Bois-Reymond (1860-1922) in 1889. Lili and Alard du Bois-Reymond remained friends with Max Eyth until his death, they proofread some of his books and Lili du Bois-Reymond later wrote his biography. At first the couple lived in Berlin and Potsdam , then in Plön . They had five children: Felix, Fanny, Eleonore, Roland and Lea. Lilis Nichten, Ilse (1887–1954) and Eva Roemer (1889–1977), the daughters from the marriage of their eldest sister Fanny Hensel (1857–1891) with the sculptor Bernhard Roemer (1852–1891), lived with in as full orphans since childhood the family household.

Alard du Bois-Reymond devoted himself to research into underwater sound signaling technology during the First World War and moved to Kiel for this purpose. In 1917 the family acquired numerous properties in the nearby town of Plön , in what is now the water tower area, and converted a former stable building into a residential building. In 1919, Plön became her permanent residence.

Lili du Bois-Reymond published a collection of short stories as early as 1894, which was followed by several novels and short stories in the following decades. Her novels and short stories "testify vividly from the past of cheerful, assured enjoyment of life". Her novel Die Insel im Sturm from 1910 is about the break-in of modern ideas into the happy but cramped life of a family. She also worked as a translator.

After the First World War, she campaigned for pacifism .

In 1922, her husband and youngest son were killed in a boat accident.

Lili du Bois-Reymond was part of a large family and circle of friends. This included the artist couple Sabine and Reinhold Lepsius and also Käthe Kollwitz . In 1941 she arranged the contact between Reinhard Schmidhagen and Kollwitz. She was also in contact with the opera singer Marie Gallison-Reuter, a woman from Lübeck who lived in the USA through marriage to the American painter Henry Gallison and who had started her professional career as a nurse in Kaiserswerth, Germany. Lili du Bois-Reymond had a lifelong friendship with Louisa Loring-Dresel, who lives in Boston and is the daughter of the German-born composer Otto Dresel.

Awards

Works

  • Land ahead! and other stories (short stories). Hertz, Berlin, 1894.
  • The Gerboth house. Hertz, Berlin, 1899.
  • The island in a storm (novel). Meyer & Jessen, Berlin, 1910.
  • The formula of life (novellas). Meyer & Jessen, Berlin, 1911.
  • Engels Erdenwallen (novel). Van den Broecke, Leipzig, 1913.
  • Max Eyth. Engineer, farmer, poet (biography). People's Association of Book Friends, Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin, 1931.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Lexicon of women. Vol 1: A - H. . Encyclios, Zurich 1953, p. 533 .
  2. ↑ Helmut Hasse: Kurt Hensel to the memory . In: Journal for pure and applied mathematics . tape 187 , 1950, pp. 1–13 ( uni-goettingen.de ).
  3. ↑ Bärbel Kuhn: Marital status : Single. Singular women and men in the middle class (1850–1914) . Böhlau, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-412-12999-2 , pp. 229-231 .
  4. ↑ Marion Heine: In the footsteps of the family du Bois-Reymond (Part I). As a contribution in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde im Kreis Plön , Volume 48, 2018, pp. 75–118.
  5. ↑ Renate Tobies: Iris Runge. A life at the crossroads of mathematics, science, and industry . Birkhäuser, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-0348-0229-1 , p. 26 .
  6. ↑ Georgina Koch: "Forward dear Schmidhagen" - Käthe Kollwitz and Reinhard Schmidhagen . In: Astrid Boettcher, Iris Berndt (ed.): Käthe Kollwitz and her friends . Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-282-9 , pp. 113-124 .
  7. ^ Annett Büttner (author) on Marie Gallison-Reuter, in: Pflegewwissenschaft. Journal for Nursing Science and Nursing Practice, Volume 8 / pp. 74-77, ISSN 1662-3029. Gallison-Reuter, Marie
  8. ^ Susanne Schwabach-Albrecht: The German Schiller Foundation 1909–1945 . In: Archives for the history of the book industry . tape 55 , 2002, pp. 1–156, here 53–54 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110942941.1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bois-Reymond, Lili you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bois-Reymond, Lili you (nickname); Bois-Reymond, Elisabeth du (married name); Hensel, Elisabeth Hermine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1948
Place of death Zurich