Lulu von Strauss and Torney

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Lulu von Strauss and Torney
Peter Matzen (Göttingen): Lulu von Strauss and Torney

Luise "Lulu" Elisabeth von Strauss and Torney (born September 20, 1873 in Bückeburg , Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe , today Lower Saxony ; † June 19, 1956 in Jena , Thuringia ) was a German poet and writer.

family

Luise Elisabeth von Strauss and Torney came from the Lower Saxon family Strauss and Torney , who were raised to the nobility in the 19th century and were first mentioned in Rethmar with the pastor Georg Burchard Strauss (around 1584-1632) . She was the daughter of the Royal Prussian Major General Lothar von Strauss and Torney (1835-1903) and from the Office Varel derived landowner daughter Katinka Harms (1843-1917). Her grandfather was the princely schaumburg-Lippe minister, religious historian and poet Viktor von Strauss and Torney (1809–1899), her uncle was the Senate President of the Berlin Higher Administrative Court Hugo von Strauss and Torney (1837–1919) and her aunt was the writer Hedwig von Schreibershofen ( 1840-1922).

life and work

In 1898 she published her first poems . She found her subjects in the idyllic Schaumburger Land , but also in the marshland and on the North Sea. In 1901 her first novella Bauernstolz appeared . She made contact with the Göttingen circle around Börries von Münchhausen , to whom she introduced Agnes Miegel , and with Theodor Heuss . They had a lifelong friendship with them. She wrote her most important works before the First World War. On April 18, 1916, she married the publisher Eugen Diederichs (1867–1930) in Bückeburg and moved to Jena. Under his influence, she turned to religious subjects, sagas and fairy tales .

On October 26, 1933, she and 87 other German authors signed a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . In 1939 she had herself entered with some of her poems in the “Congratulations Magnificent Volume on Hitler's 50th Birthday”. From 1941 she took part in the Eisenach Institute, founded at the time, for the research and elimination of Jewish influence on German church life, in its project for the “de-Jewification” of the New Testament . She was responsible for its "poetic word version" in the "Volkstestament working group" there and helped to develop the translation of the NT into a "de-Jewised" version. This made Jesus of Nazareth an Aryan and opponent of Judaism and its biblical traditions. This new version, based on racist and anti-Semitic guidelines, was published under the title The Message of God . Strauss and Torney's involvement in it has been historically explored since 1994.

The Nazis were the works of Lulu by Strauss and Torney for blood-and-soil literature . It belonged in the era of National Socialism to the poets and poetesses, by the Reich Chamber were particularly appreciated and used. A training guide for the Association of German Girls said: The poet's stories and ballads are "earthly" and an expression of the "holiness of blood and soil". For today's literary scholars, the themes and traits of some of their works ( e.g. frost stands the seed ) fit into the category of blood-and-soil literature. Other of her works have been compared with the Wehrwolf novel by Hermann Löns .

Part of the estate of Strauss and Torney is in the manuscript department of the Dortmund City and State Library, and another part in the Bückeburg State Archives .

Awards and honors

Works (in selection)

  • Peasant Pride , novella, 1901
  • Atonement for one life , novella, 1904
  • Village history in modern literature , 1906
  • Hof am Brink , 1906
  • Lucifer , novel, 1907
  • The life of St. Francis of Assisi , 1909
  • Victors and vanquished , short stories, 1909
  • Judas , Roman, 1911 (later under the title Der Judashof. A Low German Hereditary Farm Novel , 1937)
  • The seeds are ripe. New ballads , 1919
  • Judgment Day , novel, 1922
  • The life of Saint Elizabeth , 1926
  • German women's life during the time of the Saxon Emperors and Hohenstaufen , 1927
  • From Biedermeier to Bismarckian times. The life of a nonagenarian , Biography, 1932 (biography of Viktor von Strauss and Torney)
  • An eye for an eye , story, 1933
  • Earth of fathers. Selected poems , 1936
  • The golden face , poems, 1943
  • The Hidden Face , Memories, 1943

literature

  • Ulf Diederichs : Agnes Miegel, Lulu von Strauss and Torney and the Diederichs house. The story of a lifelong friendship. Agnes-Miegel-Gesellschaft, Bad Nenndorf 2005, ISBN 3-928375-27-X .
  • Nicolaus Heutger:  Lulu von Strauss and Torney. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 37-39.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Gisela Horn: The NS University of Jena honors women: Lisa Sauckel and Lulu von Strauss and Torney-Diederichs. In: Cornelia Amlacher, Dietmar Ebert, Gisela Horn (Hrsg.): Adaptation persecution resistance. Women in Jena 1933–1945. Jena 2007, pp. 91-96.
  • Gisela Horn: Lulu von Strauss and Torney-Diederichs - an example of female adaptation. In: Gisela Horn (Ed.): Design and Reality. Women in Jena 1900 to 1933. Rudolstadt 2005, pp. 311–324.
  • Birgit Jerke: How was the New Testament to a so-called People's Testament "entjudet"? From the work of the Eisenach "Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life". In: Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz (Hrsg.): Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Theological and church programs of German Christians. Frankfurt am Main 1994, pp. 201-234.
  • Friedrich von der Leyen:  Diederichs, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 637 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mention)
  • Hans Prolingheuer: The church “Entjudungsinstitut” 1939 to 1945 in the Lutherstadt Eisenach. P. 16, footnote 35 ( PDF 1.6 MB; accessed on August 11, 2011).
  • Liselotte Zander: The ballads of Lulu by Strauss and Torney. An appreciation for content and shape. Univ. Diss., Greifswald 1951.
  • German gender book : Strauss from Rethmar at Lehrte in Hanover (single print from the 9th Lower Saxony volume, DGB 141). CA Starke Verlag (72 pages).
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B, volume VI, volume 32 of the complete series. CA Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1964, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 366.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Lorenz: A picture of Jesus in the horizon of National Socialism: Studies on the New Testament of the 'Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on Church Life'. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 3-16-154569-9 , pp. 18-20 and footnote 68, 70
  2. ^ Hans Sarkowicz, Alfred Mentzer: Writer in National Socialism. A lexicon. Insel, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-458-17504-9 , p. 578.
  3. ↑ Sabine Hering-Calfin, Kurt Schilde: The BDM work "Faith and Beauty": The organization of young women under National Socialism. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-663-09536-1 , p. 113
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Schoeps: Literature in the Third Reich. Herbert Lang, 1992, ISBN 3-261-04589-2 , p. 145
personal data
SURNAME Strauss and Torney, Lulu von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss and Torney, Luise Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1956
Place of death Jena