Maria Benemann

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Maria Benemann (born Maria Dobler; born April 5, 1887 in Herrnhut ; † March 11, 1980 in Überlingen ) was a German writer .

Life

Dobler spent her youth in Dresden , where she was trained to be a Froebel kindergarten teacher. After her marriage in 1906 to Gerhard Benemann, bookseller and founder of Horen Verlag, she lived in the house "Insel Poet" in Neu-Finkenkrug in one of the country houses that had been built in 1908 as a result of a competition organized by the magazine "Die Woche". She gave birth to a daughter in 1907 and a son in 1911. After the death of her husband, who died of a war wound in 1914, she had to give up the house in 1915. In her memories she describes the years there as the happiest of her life.

During stays in Worpswede , she became friends with Heinrich Vogeler , but they also had close ties with the poets Richard Dehmel , Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Werfel and the architect Walter Gropius . In 1914 she published her first poems in the Weisse Blätter , and in 1915 a first volume of poems followed. The poems are thematically strongly influenced by the horror of war, for example in Lord, now is time or in war :

Lord, I am yours. Take me as your hostage,
And throw me a thousand times over to the furies,
And form your chisel from my eddies,
For new values ​​when I'm no longer.

This was followed by a fairy tale and a volume of novels in 1916. Finally, in 1978, the commemorative volume, Leih mir die Licht Sandale, was published again .

After the Second World War, Benemann lived in Mexico for a few years, then in Großhansdorf near Hamburg.

Works

  • Changes. Poems. White Books Publishing House, Leipzig 1915.
  • The trip to the sea. Fairy tale. Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1915.
  • Little novels. Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1916.
  • Lend me the light sandal again. Memories and movements. Christians, Hamburg 1978.

literature

  • Hartmut Vollmer (ed.): The sun dances its way to death in red shoes. Poetry by expressionist female poets. Arche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7160-2164-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gropius and Rilke under one roof ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augusta-presse.de
  2. ↑ Wandlungen (1915), p. 85. Quoted from: Vollmer (ed.): The sun dances itself to death in red shoes. Zurich 1993, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Benemann, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobler, Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnhut
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1980
Place of death Überlingen