Lisa Baumfeld

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Lisa Baumfeld

Lisa Baumfeld (born April 27, 1877 in Vienna ; † February 3, 1897 there ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Baumfeld was born in Vienna as the only daughter of the Jewish bank director Baumfeld. She received a careful upbringing, spoke French and English and was interested in philology and literature from an early age .

At the age of twelve she wrote poems for the first time, which were published under the pseudonyms Ewald Bergen and Lizzy in Viennese magazines such as Gesellschaft (1895) and Wiener Mode (1896). Contemporaries praised her "unusual poetic talent" and her "poems, which stood out for the beauty of the language and the perfection of form." The poet Adolf Bartels criticized her poetry, as did Hugo von Hofmannsthal's , as too complicated and indistinguishable: "Nevertheless, I wanted to that you and Hofmannsthal's style would only be overcome, we Germans do not really live in oriental palaces, whose walls are covered by confusing arabesque ripples, whose floors are covered by colorful carpets without clear drawings. "

Baumfeld fell seriously ill and died within a few days at the age of 19 in Vienna. Posthumously Ferdinand Groß published a collection of her poems under the title Poems in 1899 .

literature

  • Baumfeld, Lisa . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, p. 148.
  • Baumfeld, Miss Lisa . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 478 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pataky, 478.
  2. ↑ Brümmer, p. 148.
  3. ^ Adolf Bartels around 1895; quoted after: Gerhard Kratzsch: Kunstwart and Dürerbund . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Baumfeld, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergen, Ewald (pseudonym); Lizzy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1897
Place of death Vienna