Monika Hunnius

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Monika Adele Elisabeth Hunnius (born July 14, 1858 in Riga , Latvia , † December 30, 1934 in Riga) was a Baltic German writer . She is one of the best-known German authors from the Baltic States in the 20th century .

Life

Monika Hunnius grew up in Riga and spent the long summer holidays mostly in Paide (German Weißenstein ) with her uncle Hermann Hesse, the grandfather of the writer Hermann Hesse . Nevertheless, she only met her cousin Johannes Hesse , the father of the famous writer and Nobel Prize winner, much later in Germany. Until his death, Monika Hunnius felt a deep friendship with him.

She received vocal training first in Riga, then in Frankfurt am Main , where she was tutored by Julius Stockhausen , among others . In the Stockhausen house she met u. a. Johannes Brahms . She was friends with Clara Schumann , Raimund von Zur Mühlen , Hans Schmidt , Eva Jekelius-Lißmann and Amalie Schneeweiß , the wife of Joseph Joachim . From 1884 Monika Hunnius taught singing and declamation in Riga.

She supported Raimund von Zur Mühlen from 1904 to 1911 in conducting singing courses in Viljandi (Fellin) and later in Neuhäuser in East Prussia (today Noichoiser , Russian Нойхойзер ) on the Baltic Sea near Pillau (today Baltijsk ).

She spent the time of Bolshevik rule in Latvia after the First World War in Königsfeld in the Black Forest . In addition to her work as a writer, she worked there as an assistant in a sanatorium. In 1923 she returned to the Baltic States. In recent years she has increasingly suffered from symptoms of paralysis.

In the last years of her life, the artist in need of care lived in the family of the director of the German high school in Riga, Ernst Gurland. He also won over a particularly talented student, Gertrud Schettler, to handwritten dictation for the increasingly frail woman.

Works

  • Pictures from the time of the Bolshevik rule in Riga from January 3 to May 22, 1919 , 1921 (1938: 24-26 thousand)
  • My Christmas , 1922 (1975: 181-185 thousand)
  • My uncle Hermann. Remembrance of Old Estonia , with a foreword by Hermann Hesse, Verlag Eugen Salzer Heilbronn 1921 (1935: 82. – 85. Th.)
  • People I saw , 1922 (1962: 87th – 90th thousand)
  • My way to art , 1925 (1953: 87th – 89th thousand)
  • Baltic Houses and Figures , 1926 (1935: 19–20 thousand)
  • From home and abroad , 1928
  • Youth days of a German-Baltic woman , 1929
  • Baltic women from one tribe , 1930 (1941: 22-29 thousand)
  • The Song of Coming Home , 1932
  • My parents' house. Memories , 1935 (1960: 51st – 55th thousand)
  • Correspondence with a friend , ed. v. Sophie Gurland, 1935 (1955: 25th - 28th thousand)
  • Two women , Eugen Salzer-Verlag, Heilbronn 1936 (1964: 51st – 55th thousand)
  • When the time is fulfilled ... letters and diary sheets , ed. v. Anne-Monika Glasow, 1937
  • Johannes , 1948 (1948: 6th – 10th thousand)

literature

Web links

Commons : Monika Hunnius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Narva is often given as her place of birth, but this is incorrect; see. her family tree in When the time is fulfilled from 1937, and Baltic Houses and Gestalten , 1926, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Her baptism is registered by her father himself in the Narva church book (German Johannes-Congregation: Eesti Ajaloo Arhiiv (Tartu) Fund 4380.2.90: Born 1834–1860: 1858: No. 22) as well as in the Riga church book (St. Jacobi ). However, the father Constantin Hunnius writes that the mother stayed with her grandparents in Riga during his absence in Bad Reichenhall, that the daughter was born in Riga and in the Jacobi Church there (Riga: St. Jacobi: German Born 1846–1861 , P. 359, no. W-36) was baptized.
personal data
SURNAME Hunnius, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunnius, Monika Adele Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1934
Place of death Riga , Latvia