Marie Gevers

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Maria Theresia Carolina Fanny Gevers (born December 30, 1883 in Edegem , † March 9, 1975 ibid) was a Belgian writer and translator .

Life

Marie Gevers grew up on her parents' large estate, Missembourg Castle and Mussenborg. Her parents raised her in French, the language in which she wrote all of her works, on the basis of a family tradition, despite her Flemish origins. The rest of the area in the early years of life spoke Flemish. Very close to nature, she began early with her first poetry, encouraged by Émile Verhaeren , whose family her parents were acquainted with.

In 1908 Marie Gevers and Jan Frans Willems married, who was a descendant of Jan Frans Willems . The marriage had two sons (one son died in World War II ) and one daughter.

Marie Gevers died in March 1975 in her parents' house.

Works

Marie Gevers was interested in her origins and in family research and, in addition to poetry, also created homeland books for children, volumes of poetry and almanacs. After 1930 she began to write prose as well. It was largely translated into German by Eva Rechel-Mertens . Gevers also translated works by Flemish authors himself.

The following is a selection from his life's work:

  • Missembourg (1917/18, first anthology of poetry)
  • La comtesse des digues (1931, Die Deichgräfin , first novel)
  • Madame Orpha ou la sérénade de mai (1933, Madame Orpha or Serenade in May , second novel, is considered the main work)
  • Guldentop (1934)
  • Le Voyage de frère Jean ( The happy journey / The journey of brother Jean )
  • La ligne de vie (1937, The Lifeline )
  • Paix sur les champs ( Peace over the fields )
  • La Grande Marée ( The dam rips apart )
  • Château de l'Ouest ( High Dune )
  • Plaisir des météores
  • Vie et mort d'un étang
  • L'Herbier légendaire ( The year of flowers )

Honors

  • Member of the Belgian Academy of Language and Literature, first elected in 1938
  • Correspondez member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , 1958
  • Prix ​​quinquennal de littérature pour l'ensemble de sa carrière, 1959
  • Grand Prix quinquennal de littérature française (Belgian literary prize awarded every five years and with the highest endowment), 1961

literature

  • Ute Jancke: Le temps qu'il fait, le temps qui passe. Studies on the literary work of Marie Gevers . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-631-30165-0
  • Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 185
  • Anne-Marie Mercier, Xavier German: Marie Gevers. Un livre 'La comtesse des digues', une oeuvre . Ed. Labor, Brussels 1988, ISBN 2-8040-0256-X
personal data
SURNAME Gevers, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gevers, Maria Theresia Carolina Fanny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Edegem , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1975
Place of death Edegem , Belgium