Marie Madeleine

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marie Madeleine (born April 4, 1881 in Eydtkuhnen , East Prussia; † September 27, 1944 in Katzenelnbogen ; actually Gertrud Marie Madeleine Baroness von Puttkamer, née Günther ) was a German writer and poet . She became known through the collection of erotic poetry Auf Kypros (1900). She had already written some of the poems published in it when she was 15 and 16 years old.

Life path

She was the daughter of the businessman Karl Günther and his wife Emmy Siemssen (Emma Simonsohn). The young woman described as dark-haired and dark-eyed beauty married General Heinrich Georg Ludwig Baron von Puttkamer (1846–1914), 35 years older than General Heinrich Georg Ludwig Baron von Puttkamer (1846–1914), at the age of 19 on August 2, 1900 , who came from an old Baltic family Century and owned large estates in Pomerania. After the wedding, the couple lived in a magnificent villa in Berlin-Grunewald . In 1903 their son Jesco Günther Heinrich was born, who was given early training in the cadet school that his father had already attended. From then on, Marie Madeleine hardly took care of her child. She had an extravagant lifestyle made possible by the fortune left by her husband. She loved traveling - after the death of her husband in the company of a Herr von Cramster - she wore the latest Parisian fashions and was known for eye-catching hats. She lost her fortune in the global economic crisis at the end of the 20s. Part of it also disappeared due to her 30 years of addiction to morphine . She also experimented with cocaine . In 1942 or 1943 she was admitted to a private clinic in Katzenelnbogen. There she died in 1944 under unexplained circumstances. Her son, who was a soldier in World War II and was only released from captivity in 1951, was unable to find out the exact circumstances of her death. He believed that Nazi doctors used their drug addiction and poor health to bring them to death.

Her husband's family reacted indignantly to her erotic publications, which she considered obscene. Her husband stood behind her and demonstratively left the traditional family association.

Literary work

The general's wife wrote poetry, short stories and dramas under the pseudonym Marie Madeleine. She caused a sensation in 1900 with her erotic poetry collection Auf Kypros , the 37th edition of which appeared in 1910. The collection was particularly popular in the salons of higher society. More literarily educated contemporaries like the critic Willy Haas , of course, "laughed (themselves) piebald at so much perfumed literary ardor". Haas described the lyrical products of Marie Madeleine as prime examples of Victorianism in a laced bodice that is cracking at the seams and placed them in a row with early works by the later "geniuses" Richard Dehmel and Edvard Munch .

Works

  • On Cyprus. Vita Verlag, Berlin 1900 (poems)
  • That little love. Continent Verlag, Berlin 1900 (play in 4 acts)
  • The three nights. Liebeslieder Sklarek, Berlin 1901 (play)
  • On the fool's rope of love . 1902 (poems)
  • The Indian rock pigeon . 1902
  • Made of rotten wood. 1902 (novellas)
  • In the gamer's paradise . Snapshots from Monte Carlo. 1903
  • Frivolous . From the life of a horse. 1903 (novel)
  • Crabs. Continent Verlag, Berlin 1903 (seaside resort stories)
  • Poor knight! Continent Verlag, Berlin 1904 (novel)
  • Your bad reputation. Elischer, Leipzig 1905 (novel)
  • In bliss and sins. Continent Verlag, Berlin 1905 (poems)
  • That little love . 1906 (drama)
  • The red champion. Moeser, Leipzig 1906 (novel)
  • The duchess's clothes. Continent Verlag, Berlin 1906 (novel)
  • The last hurdle. Grethlein, Leipzig 1907 (sketches) (co-author)
  • The cousin . 1908 (comedy)
  • The guide. Berlin 1908 (novel)
  • Prince Christian . 1909 (novel)
  • The place where they are mortal ... Grethlein, Leipzig 1909 (novellas)
  • Burning Love. Elischer, Leipzig 1910 (novellas)
  • Cats. Continent Verlag, Berlin 1910
  • The most sacred goods. Elischer, Leipzig 1911 (novellas)
  • The red rose passion. Elischer, Leipzig 1912
  • Panther kitten. Ullstein, Berlin 1913 (novel)
  • The sweet intoxication. Elischer, Leipzig 1916
  • Tumult. Borngräber, Berlin 1920 (poems)
  • The daughters of Prometheus. Paetel, Berlin 1926 (novella)

expenditure

  • Selected Works. Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva", Leipzig 1924
  • In bliss and sins. (Talk plate) Speaker: Boy Gobert , piano: Hans Geisendörfer. Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft (Literary Archive), Hamburg 1963.
  • Poems by Marie Madeleine. (Talk plate) Speaker: Boy Gobert , piano: Hans Geisendörfer. Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft (Literary Archive), Hamburg 1963.
  • The red rose passion - poems a. Prose Selected. by Sibylle Kaldewey. Matthes and Seitz, Munich 1977. Selection, together with texts by other authors ( Alfred Jarry , Oskar Panizza ).

literature

  • Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , p. 640
  • Evelin Förster : Die Frau im Dunkeln - Authors and composers of cabaret and entertainment from 1901 to 1935 - A cultural history , With contributions by Anja Köhler and Jörg Engelhardt, Edition Braus, Berlin 2013, p. 156ff, ISBN 978-3-86228- 057-5 (There is a double CD for the book, Duo-phon Records, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937127-15-6 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Astrid Freyeisen: Shanghai and the politics of the Third Reich . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2000. ISBN 978-3-8260-1690-5 , p. 272
personal data
SURNAME Marie Madeleine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttkamer, Marie Madeleine von (real name); Günther, Gertrud Marie Madeleine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Eydtkuhnen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1944
Place of death Katzenelnbogen