Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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Marie Luise Kaschnitz , actually Marie Luise Freifrau Kaschnitz von Weinberg ; Born Freiin von Holzing-Berstett (born January 31, 1901 in Karlsruhe , †  October 10, 1974 in Rome ) was a German writer .

Life

Grave of Marie Luise Kaschnitz in Bollschweil

The daughter of Major General Max von Holzing-Berstett and his wife Elsa, née Freiin von Seldeneck (December 14, 1875 in Karlsruhe - December 11, 1941 in Bollschweil), grew up in Potsdam and Berlin and trained as a bookseller in Weimar after graduating from high school (1922–1924) and then worked in a Munich publishing house and an antiquarian bookshop in Rome .

In 1925 she married the classical archaeologist Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg , with whom she made numerous trips to France , Italy and Greece and lived alternately in Rome , Königsberg (Prussia) , Marburg and Frankfurt am Main . From 1941 until her death, she lived mainly in Frankfurt, where her husband had taken over the chair of classical archeology at the university . After the death of her husband in 1958, she temporarily withdrew to the family estate in Bollschweil near Freiburg .

Her first novel Love Begins (1933), which Marie Luise Kaschnitz wrote on the occasion of a competition for the Cassirer publishing house , was followed by stories, essays and poems, including dance of death and poems at the time (1947), which were entirely influenced by the war experience. In 1947 and 1948 she was co-editor of the monthly Die Wandlung . In the following works, Zukunftsmusik (1950) and the Ewige Stadt cycle (1952), there was an increasing tendency towards a dialogue between the lyrical self and the present. Essayist notes and autobiographical writings played a central role in her late work. According to the Roman records Engelsbrücke (1955), among other things, Das Haus der Kindheit (1956) and Sticht Noch dahin appeared. Neue Prosa (1970), in which the ego increasingly questions reality and its own identity.

From the 1950s onwards, Marie Luise Kaschnitz increasingly turned to radio plays. In 1955 she was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and in 1960 was a guest lecturer for poetics at the University of Frankfurt . She was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , among others . She received special support throughout her life from the publishing editor Max Tau , who originally worked for Cassirer but who emigrated to Norway before the outbreak of war , who named her in an interview in 1965 as one of the literary talents he had discovered.

Marie Luise Kaschnitz was buried in Bollschweil , the place of her parents' family residence, to which she had set a literary memorial with a description of a village (1966). A plaque commemorates her on her long-term home at Wiesenau 8 in Frankfurt's Westend . Her estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Book editions and works (selection)

Title page of description of a village
Title page of Der Tulpenmann
  • Love begins (Roman, Berlin 1933)
  • Elissa. (Roman, Berlin 1936)
  • Greek myths. (Hamburg 1943. Contents: The Syville , Chiron , The Night of Argo , Demeter , Hephaistos , Perseus , Bellerophontos , The Boeotian Dioscuri , Niobe , The Journey to Crete , Marpessa , Philemon and Baukis , The Encounter , Dido , Eos .)
  • People and Things 1945. Twelve essays. (Heidelberg 1946. Contents: About me , About nature , About things , About awakening , About the experience of God , About illness , About wandering in the depths , About silence , About our children , About hunger , About guilt , About transformation .)
  • Poems. (Hamburg 1947)
  • Dance of Death and Poems at the time. (Hamburg 1948. Therein: return to Frankfurt )
  • Adam and Eve (1949)
  • Gustave Courbet. Novel of a painter's life (1949. New edition as The Truth, Not The Dream. The Life of the Painter Courbet , 1967; as well as a new edition in Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1978)
  • Future music. (Poems, Hamburg 1950)
  • The fat child and other stories. (Krefeld 1951, new edition 1962. Contents: The fat child , Adam and Eve , Enough, over , I love Mr. X , You, my hero , Pax , March wind , The sleepwalker , Nesemann , The mountain slide .)
  • Hiroshima (1951)
  • Eternal City. Rome poems. (Krefeld 1952)
  • Angel Bridge. Roman reflections. (Hamburg 1955, new edition 1976)
  • The house of childhood. (Autobiography, Hamburg 1956, new edition 1962)
  • New Poems (1957)
  • The environs of Rome (art book 1960)
  • Long shadows . (Stories, Hamburg 1960. In it: Popp and Mingel . New edition 1981)
  • Your silence - my voice. Poems 1958–1961. (Hamburg 1962, new edition 1981)
  • One of Two (1962)
  • Where am I going? Records. (Hamburg 1963, new edition 1967)
  • I lived (poems, 1974)
  • The deserter (short stories and poems, 1964)
  • One word further (poems, 1965)
  • Never anywhere. Selected poems 1928–1965. (Hamburg 1965)
  • Description of a village. (Frankfurt am Main 1966; new edition 1982)
  • Long distance calls . (Erzählungen, Frankfurt am Main 1966, new edition 1981. 24 short stories, see main article)
  • A poem (1967)
  • Days, days, years. Records. (Frankfurt am Main 1968)
  • Bird skirt. Eerie stories (content: the black lake , bird rock , ship history , the spinner , Jennifer's dreams )
  • Still there. New prose. (Erzählungen, Frankfurt am Main 1970; new edition 1984)
  • Not from here and from today (1971)
  • Between always and never. Shapes and themes of poetry (essay 1971; new edition 1977)
  • Polar bears (stories 1972)
  • No spell. Poems. (Frankfurt am Main 1972)
  • The old subject (poems, 1973)
  • Places. Records. (Frankfurt am Main 1973)
  • Song of Human Life (Poems, 1974)
  • The old garden. A fairy tale. (Düsseldorf 1975, published posthumously, new edition 1981)
  • A Quiet House (published posthumously)

As editor

Radio plays (selection)

  • Jason's Last Night (first performed 1952)
  • The foreign voice (1952, new Munich 1969)
  • The Game of the Cross (1953)
  • What is seven years? (1953)
  • Caterina Cornaro (1954)
  • The Wedding Guest (1955)
  • The Children of Elisa Rocca (1955)
  • The tax collector Matthew (1956; also 1958 as an amateur play)
  • Hotel Paradiso (1957)
  • Who is afraid of the black man? (1958)
  • The Journey of Mr. Admet (1960)
  • Tobias or the End of Fear (1961)
  • A garden party (1961)
  • The dog (1961)
  • A Royal Child (1962)
  • Radio plays (1962, collection of her radio plays from 1952 to 1961)
  • Conversations in Space (1971)

Awards

literature

Collected Works

  • Christian Büttrich , Norbert Miller (ed.): Collected works: Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Seven volumes. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1981–1989, DNB 550882847 .
  • Christian Büttrich, Marianne Büttrich, Iris Schnebel-Kaschnitz (eds.): Marie Luise Kaschnitz: Diaries from the years 1936–1966. Two volumes. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-458-16971-0 .

Biographies and Introductions

Investigations on individual questions

  • Jan Badien , Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann (ed.): Marie Luise Kaschnitz. A sensitive contemporary (= Herrenalber Forum , Volume 30). Evangelical Press Association for Baden, Karlsruhe 2002, ISBN 3-87210-130-7 (collection of contributions to a conference in Bad Herrenalb 2001).
  • Anita Baus: Positioning as a process. An investigation into the prose of Marie Luise Kaschnitz (= treatises on art, music and literature, volume 129). Bouvier, Bonn 1974, ISBN 3-416-00885-5 (dissertation, Saarbrücken University 1971, 426 pages).
  • Karin Guni: L 'existence tragique dans la prose de Marie Luise Kaschnitz (= European university writings , series 1: German language and literature , Vol. 1447), Lang, Bern / Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / New York, NY / Paris / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-906751-95-3 (Dissertation Sorbonne, Université Paris I 1991, 253 pages).
  • Jana Hrdličková: It looks bad in the world: the moral appeal in the radio plays by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (= Acta Universitatis Purkynianae, Volume 139), Filozofická Faculty UJEP, Ústí nad Labem 2008, ISBN 978-80-7414-025-9 (Dissertation University of Aussig 2008, 264 pages).
  • Petra Huber-Sauter: The I in Marie Luise Kaschnitz's autobiographical prose . [Stuttgart] 2004, DNB 970157290 (Dissertation University of Stuttgart 2003, 270 pages, full text online PDF, free of charge, 274 pages, 1.61 MB).
  • Johannes Østbø: Reality as a challenge to the word. Commitment, poetological reflection and poetic communication with Marie Luise Kaschnitz . (= Oslo contributions to German studies , Volume 17). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-48215-9 .
  • Heide Rohse: mourn - remember - tell. Marie Luise Kaschnitz 'story "Adam and Eve" and the biblical story of paradise and expulsion (= Freiburg literary psychological discussions. Yearbook for psychoanalysis and literature. Volume 22: Mourning ). Edited by Wolfram Mauser and Joachim Pfeiffer . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, pp. 227-239, ISBN 3-8260-2529-6 .
  • Nikola Roßbach: "Every child a Christ child, every child a murderer". Child and childhood motifs in the work of Marie-Luise Kaschnitz . Francke, Tübingen et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7720-2744-X (dissertation, RWTH Aachen 1997)
  • Adelheid Strack-Richter: Public and private engagement. The poetry of Marie Luise Kaschnitz . Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1979, ISBN 3-8204-6545-6 (also dissertation, University of Waterloo, Ontario)
  • Ulrike Suhr: Poetry as the language of faith. A theological investigation of the literary work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz . (= Practical Theology Today; Vol. 8). Kolhhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-17-012008-5 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 1990)
  • Helga Vetter: I seek. Marie Luise Kaschnitz's diary prose . M und P Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-476-45053-8 (also dissertation, University of Hanover 1994)
  • Katharina Weil: "My veins porphyry". Reception of antiquities in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8253-6702-2 .
  • Monika Wolting : The garden as a topos in the work of Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Undine Gruenter and Sarah Kirsch . Wrocław 2009. ISBN 978-83-229-2985-8

Web links

Commons : Marie Luise Kaschnitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data of Freiin von Seldenceck on geneall.net
  2. ↑ Audio documents of the German book trade. Original recordings with publishers, booksellers and authors. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1988
personal data
SURNAME Kaschnitz, Marie Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaschnitz-Weinberg, Marie Luise Freifrau von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1974
Place of death Rome