Marie Herzfeld
Marie Herzfeld (also HM Lyhne and Marianne Niederweiden ; born March 20, 1855 in Güns , Hungary , † September 22, 1940 in Mining ) was an Austrian writer, literary critic and translator. She took an active part in literary and artistic life at the turn of the 20th century and was in lively exchange with colleagues such as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Karl Emil Franzos , Rainer Maria Rilke , Gustav Klimt and Hugo von Hofmannsthal .
life and work
The daughter of a Jewish doctor, baptized Catholic in 1886, first translated Scandinavian literature ( Björnstjerne Björnson , Jonas Lie , Arne Garborg , Knut Hamsun and, as the first, the complete edition by Jens Peter Jacobsen ). Her critical literary essays on contemporary Scandinavian authors have been published in the Frankfurter Zeitung and the Wiener Literaturzeitung, among others .
From the beginning of the 20th century she concentrated on the Italian Renaissance and especially Leonardo da Vinci , on which she published a monograph, among other things, which received attention into the second half of the 20th century.
Herzfeld was Vice President between 1901 and 1919, and later an honorary member of the Vienna Association of Writers and Artists , and in 1904 she received the Bauernfeld Prize .
Works (selection)
- People and books. Literary studies by Marie Herzfeld . Verlag von Leopold Weiß, Vienna 1893 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
- Scandinavian literature and its tendencies along with other essays by Marie Herzfeld . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1898 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
- Jens Peter Jacobsen : Collected Works . Eugen Diederichs, Florence and Leipzig 1899, Volume 1: Novellas, Letters, Poems. From the Danish by Marie Herzfeld (digital copies of the edition from 1899 with book decorations by Wilhelm Müller-Schönefeld and the edition from 1919 with book decorations by Heinrich Vogeler in the Internet Archive ) and Volume 3: Niels Lyhne. Translated from the Danish by Marie Herzfeld (digital copy of the 1911 edition with book decorations by Heinrich Vogeler in the Internet Archive).
- Leonardo da Vinci. The thinker, researcher and poet. Based on the published manuscripts, selection, translation & introduction by Marie Herzfeld . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1904 ( digitized version of the 2nd, increased edition from 1906 in the Internet Archive ; introduction pp. I – CLVI).
- Leonardo da Vinci : Treatise on painting. Reissued after the translation by Heinrich Ludwig and introduced by Marie Herzfeld . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1909 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
- The Age of the Renaissance (14 volumes, 1910–26; editor).
literature
- Herzfeld, Marie. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 11: Hein – Hirs. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22691-8 , pp. 194-201.
- Florian Schwanninger : At home in different worlds. On the 75th anniversary of the death of literary critic Marie Herzfeld . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, September 25, 2015
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von: Letters to Marie Herzfeld. Edited by Horst Weber. Heidelberg, Stiehm 1967.
Research literature
- Karen Gallagher: Marie Herzfeld (1855-1940) and European Modernism , University of California, 2007 (dissertation), ISBN 978-0-549-36889-2
- Gerd-Hermann Susen (Ed.): Wilhelm Bölsche . Correspondence with authors of the Freie Bühne. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag 2010 (letters and comments), pp. 597–601
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Herzfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marie Herzfeld in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
- Entry on Marie Herzfeld in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry on Marie Herzfeld by Bernhard Judex for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Krobb, Sabine Strümper-Krobb: Literature mediation around 1900: Case studies on ways into the German-speaking cultural system. Amsterdam / New York 2001, ISBN 9042013567 ( excerpts ), p. 117
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzfeld, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lyhne, H. M (pseudonym); Niederweiden, Marianne (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, translator and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Güns |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1940 |
| Place of death | Mining |