Magdalene Pauli

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Monument in Knoops Park in Bremen-St. Magnus

Magdalene (Matti) Carlotta Pauli , b. Melchers , also spelling of first names Magdalena and Magda , (born November 4, 1875 in Bremen , † August 5, 1970 in Hamburg ; as a pseudonym also Marga Berck ) was a German writer .

biography

Magda (lene) Pauli, daughter of the wealthy Bremen merchant Karl Theodor Melchers (1839–1923) and his wife Luise Adelgunde nee. Struve (1841–1921) from Dresden , was a soulful and musically gifted girl. She grew up in a middle-class family and attended Betty Goosmann's private girls' school. In the summer months the family lived in the Lesmona house , which Hermann Melchers, her father's brother, had bought in St. Magnus. There Magda fell in love with the German-English Gustav Rösing and, with her cousin Bertha Schellhass (1875-1896), with whom she was a close friend, carried out an extensive correspondence from 1893 to 1896 about this relationship, which was rejected by the Melchers family .

In 1896 Pauli married the art historian Gustav Pauli , who later became the museum director of the Kunsthalle Bremen and Hamburg , who was dismissed in Hamburg in 1933 for political reasons and died in Munich in 1938 . The marriage had four children: The first child was the art historian and art dealer Alfred Pauli (1896–1938). One daughter died in 1898 immediately after giving birth. The daughter Liselotte (1902–1931) committed suicide because of a leg amputation after a traffic accident, as did the son Alfred, as a result of a preliminary investigation opened against him in 1938 in Hamburg for alleged "homosexual bundling". In 1938 she published the book “In memoriam Alfred Pauli” with 16 poems by him in his memory. The youngest son, the businessman and first lieutenant Carl Theodor (1914–1944), was shot down as an aviator in World War II on December 24, 1944 and has been missing since then. The Paul family grave is located in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen-Schwachhausen (T 0631A).

Summer in Lesmona

The Hamburg notary and later Senator for Culture, Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen , had Magda Pauli publish the correspondence from 1893 to 1896 about her love for Gustav Rösing. Under the pseudonym Marga Berck, the story of an unfulfilled love appeared in the form of a letter novel in 1951 under the title Summer in Lesmona by Christian Wegner Verlag and was a great success. This book was created in 1985 under the direction of Peter Beauvais with Katja Riemann in the lead role of Radio Bremen filmed .

The events from summer in Lesmona take place in St. Magnus . Since 1994 there has been an open-air concert by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the title “Summer in Lesmona” in the local Knoops Park , which includes a picnic and a film screening in the evening.

Honors

In 2001 the Magdalene Pauli Monument (also called Magdalene Melchers Monument ) was erected below Villa Lesmona in Knoops Park in St. Magnus , and it was inaugurated on May 19, 2001. The sponsor was the Knoops Park Association . The monument consists of a bronze bust on a natural stone plinth and was designed by the sculptor Claus Homfeld .

Inscription on the monument

The bust of Magdalene Pauli is holding a song sheet on which the text of the song “Daisy, Daisy” is reproduced. The natural stone base is provided with the following inscription:

Magdalena Pauli
b. Melchers
1875–1970,
published her letters “Summer in Lesmona” under
the pseudonym
Marga Berck .

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremen Women's Museum
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/haben/seiler/lesmona-projekt/Buch/kapitel5.pdf
  3. ^ Gravestones - Bremen-Riensberg cemetery
  4. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
  5. ↑ a b The Magdalene Melchers monument. In: Heimatarchiv St. Magnus. SchoenerHistory, May 2001, accessed December 15, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Magdalene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melchers, Magdalene (maiden name); Berck, Marga (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1970
Place of death Hamburg