Maria Scholz

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Maria Stonavski

Maria Scholz (born December 1, 1861 in Strzebowitz (Třebovice, now a district of Ostrava ), Wagstadt district ; † March 30, 1944 ibid) was the owner of the Strzebowitz estate and castle near Mährisch-Ostrau , a patroness and writer under the pseudonym Maria Stona .

Live and act

Maria Scholz was the daughter of Joseph Stonawski , who bought the Strzebowitz estate and castle as a tenant in 1861, and his wife Marie, née Prymus from Schöbischowitz, Teschen district in Teschen Silesia , now Soběšovice. The first two syllables of her maiden name Stonawski became her pseudonym Maria Stona .

Maria married Dr. jur. Albert Scholz , a son of the entrepreneur Alois Scholz (1821–1883), director of the smelters of the Witkowitz Mining and Metalworking Union in Mährisch-Ostrau. The married couple Maria and Albert Scholz lived from 1881 to 1888 in Chropin in Moravia. Their daughter Helene Scholz-Zelezny , who became a sculptor and mostly lived in Rome , was born there on August 16, 1882 . Maria Scholz was Eugenia Wasilewska's aunt .

The marriage with Albert Scholz was divorced in 1899. Maria Stona married the writer, editor and art critic Karl Erasmus Kleinert (1837-1933) for the second time . In 1933 Maria Stona published a tribute to his life: an old Austrian - Karl Erasmus Kleinert . His biography and works were published by Adolf Drechsler Verlag, Troppau in Moravia . In text passages reference is made to a marriage with her.

Literature group at Strebowitz Castle near Mährisch-Ostrau

After the death of her father Joseph Stonawski, Maria Scholz, nee Stonawski, took over the Strzebowitz and Martinau estates in Silesia, and had Strzebowitz Castle and the surrounding park redesigned as her residence. At Strzebowitz Castle near Mährisch Ostrau, Maria Stona was - as her guest books showed - the center of a literary circle. Among him were the writer Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach , the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner , the writer Alexander Roda Roda , the doctor and writer Karl Schönherr , the writer and publicist Paul Keller , the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes , the writer Oskar Kokoschka , the Journalist and publicist Theodor Herzl and personalities in political life. She supported young artists, including the Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurník , and traveled to Eastern Europe , southern France and Spain, among others .

Working as a writer

Her extensive literary legacy includes travelogues, volumes of poetry with homely, often sentimental poetry, short stories, short stories and novels. (Fritz Echler: Introduction to Maria Stona: village figures in the run-up to Groß-Ostrau , Odertorverlag for writings from the East Sudetenland , Heidelberg 1962) Maria Stona was one of the most important writers of her time. She drew her subjects with psychological empathy from the world around her, which went under when Russian troops of the Soviet Union ( Red Army ) on their advance to Berlin at the end of the Second World War , occupied Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia and plundered Strzebowitz Castle, devastated and destroyed in 1958.

Maria Stona, died in 1944, created in her works the German, Czech and Polish-speaking people (mainly immigrants from Galicia ) on the upper reaches of the Oder in the mouth of the Oppa , the nearby industrial metropolis Moravian-Ostrava and the administrative city of Opava in Moravia, A memory image seen through the eyes of a wealthy woman with an astonishingly self-assured assessment of people and their living conditions. Some of her volumes of poetry were translated into Czech by the writer Helena Salichova after her death .

Works (selection)

  • The book of love. Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 1888, 3rd expanded edition 1897.
  • Love of a young woman. 3rd edition, Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin.
  • Sounding depths. New poems. Anzengruber Verlag, Wie / Berlin.
  • King Eri, a song of love. Anzengruber Verlag Vienna / Berlin.
  • People and paragraph. Novellas. Anzengruber Verlag Vienna / Berlin
  • Narrated and sung. Short stories and poems. Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin.
  • Ludwig Jakobowski in the light of life. With contributions by H. Friedrich, RM Werner Georg Brandes, AKT Tielo and others, Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin.
  • The raven cry, novel of a divorce. 1907.
  • The woodlark and other cheerful stories. Philipp Reclam Verlag, 1910.
  • My village, novellas and sketches from Silesia. Kürschner's Treasure of Books No. 604.
  • Flames and floods. Poems. Anzengruber Verlag Vienna / Berlin, 1912 ( online  - Internet Archive ).
  • Little Doctor - A Child's Life. Turmverlag Albert Platzek, Leipzig 1918.
  • The double party in town. In: Rur-Blumen , born 1923, No. 12, sheets for local history. Supplement to the Jülisches Kreisblatt , born between 1921 and 1924.
  • From Prague to Provence via Strasbourg, Verdun and Reims. Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 1922.
  • Beautiful Spain, a journey in 51 pictures. AGV Verlag, Berlin, no year (1942 to 1944).
  • Before the fall. Social novel.
  • Rachel. Novel. 2nd edition, Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna / Berlin.
  • O you fun world of women. Steyrermühl Verlag, Vienna, Tagblatt Bibliothek, No. 76.
  • The wild Volhynian. Novel from Ukraine. Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig, 1922. (A recognizable reference to the youth of a cousin of Maria Stona Wilhelmine Ladislawa Koszyc (Kosietz), Ebenhöch married in 1st marriage, Laessig married in 2nd marriage , died 1938, daughter of Wenzeslaus Koszyc in Żywiec (Saybusch) in Galicia , at that time a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy )
  • A trip to Carpathian Russia. Adolf Drechsler Verlag, Troppau 1936.
  • My mother. In: Narrated heritage - selection of East German storytelling. Odertor-Verlag for literature from the East Sudetenland, Heidelberg 1961. Pages 27 to 52.
  • Village figures from the apron of Greater Ostrau. Selected, introduced and edited by Fritz Eichler, Odertor-Verlag für Literatur aus den Ostsudetenland, Heidelberg 1962. (With a dedication on the 100th birthday of Maria Stona and a portrait photograph of her.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANNO, Mährisches Tagblatt, 1915-11-16, page 5. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ANNO, Deutsches Nordmährerblatt, 1916-03-29, page 4. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stona, Maria (pseudonym); Stonavski, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Patroness and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Strebowitz, Moravian Ostrau
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1944
Place of death Strebowitz, Moravian Ostrau