Maria Luise Weissmann

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Maria Luise Weissmann 1926

Maria Luise Weissmann (born August 20, 1899 in Schweinfurt , † November 7, 1929 in Munich ) was a German poet .

Life

Weissmann was the oldest child of the grammar school professor Karl Weissmann and his wife Klara, geb. Serious. She spent a sheltered childhood first in Schweinfurt and from 1909 in Hof , where her father had been transferred. During the First World War, she moved to Nuremberg , where the first works (sometimes under the pseudonym M. Wels ) appeared in the Franconian Courier from 1918 . There she made friends with Georg Britting , in whose magazine Die Sichel four of her poems appeared, and became secretary of the Nuremberg Literary Association . During a reading there in June 1918, she met the author and publisher Heinrich FS Bachmair , whom she was to marry four years later.

In 1919 Weissmann moved to Munich, where she worked with her cousin Wilhelm von Schramm in the bookstore Die Bücherkiste , newly founded by Bachmair . She joined the Munich society Bund für Buddhistisches Leben and worked for Oskar Schloß's publishing house in Neubiberg . She also became a member of the literary revolutionary group Das Junge Franken, founded in Nuremberg in 1919 . In the following years she published poems in various magazines, including Die Sichel , Der Weg , Der Anbruch and Die Flöte .

Bachmair had been active on the left side in the Munich Soviet Republic and was sentenced to imprisonment after its end. He was released in July 1920 and Weissmann moved to live with him in Pasing and married him in June 1922. In the following years the couple lived alternately in Pasing, Munich and Dresden. In the same year, 1922, her first volume of poetry, The Early Festival, was published . The title poem can serve as an example of her poetry:

The early festival

You are the silver willow by the stream.
Shadow of the cloud you floating.
You walk the moonlit ways.
The city streets know you.
Animals felt your trail all.

Now catfish, steep ones, are looking for you prayerfully.
Since my foot went red - your distance was burning! -
The wanderers recognized each other with love.

Hartmut Vollmer said that Weissmann would create “in the spirit of Rilke and Hofmannsthal full of subtle imagery the tension between finite human existence and eternal perfect existence”.

In November 1929 Weissmann suddenly fell ill with severe angina and died shortly afterwards from the effects of sepsis . She was buried in the Munich forest cemetery.

Works

  • The early festival. Poems. Pasing 1922.
  • Robinson. Lyric cycle. Pasing 1924.
  • With a small collection of cacti. 6 sonnets. Private printing, Hamburg & Munich 1926.
  • Garden amendment. Söcking 1949 (unfinished).

Transfers:

Expenditure:

  • Collected seals. Pasing 1932.
  • Imago. Selected poems. Starnberg 1946.
  • “I wish to be what inflames me”. Collected Works. Edited by Hartmut Vollmer. Ivory, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-932245-68-7 .
  • Selected poems. Degener, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-940531-20-9 .

literature

  • Heinrich FS Bachmair (ed.): Maria Luise Weissmann. Pasing 1932.
  • Monika Dimpfl: "I am a lonely person and a pagan ...". The poet Maria Luise Weissmann . Munich 1991.
  • Monika Dimpfl: With an open soul. The poet Maria Luise Weissmann (1899–1929). In: Schönere Heimat 94 (2005), 4, pp. 266–269.
  • Monika Dimpfl: Maria Luise Weissmann (August 20, 1899 - November 7, 1929). "I wish to be what inflames me ...". In: Alfons Schweiggert, Hannes S. Macher (ed.): Authors in Bavaria. 20th century. Bayerland Verlag, Dachau 2004, p. 167f.
  • Dietlind Pedarnig, Edda Ziegler (ed.): Bavarian writers. A reader. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2013, pp. 133-138.
  • Jürgen Serke : Women write. Hamburg 1979, pp. 38-40.
  • Hartmut Vollmer: Weissmann, Maria Luise. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Vol. 12. De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Weissmann, Maria Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wels, M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1929
Place of death Munich