Muschelkalk Ringelnatz

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Muschelkalk Ringelnatz , nee Leonharda Pieper , also Leonharda Gescher (born November 22, 1898 in Rastenburg in East Prussia , † February 26, 1977 in Berlin ), was a German translator and the wife of Joachim Ringelnatz .

Life

Ringelnatz trained as a teacher for English and French. Ringelnatz, whom she married in 1920, gave her the name "Muschelkalk", which she used officially from then on. She moved to him in Munich.

Joachim Ringelnatz appeared in the numerous cabarets of the time with his poems and ballads and was therefore often on tour for months . Muschelkalk took care of the correspondence, the manuscripts, and his engagements at home, and accompanied the development of his poetic work. In addition, she occasionally gave private language lessons and occasionally got short-term jobs.

In 1930 the couple moved to Berlin. Shell limestone appears in various poems by Ringelnatz. After his death in 1934 she edited his as yet unpublished texts with Hans Siemsen ( Der Nachlaß , 1935) and compiled the book In memoriam Joachim Ringelnatz , which appeared in 1937 , with Gerhard Schulze and Karl Heinz Silomon .

Ringelnatz married Julius Gescher, the ophthalmologist, homeopath and long-time friend and admirer of Ringelnatz. Their son Norbert Gescher was born in December 1938. Julius Gescher died in May 1945 of an infection that he contracted during an operation on a soldier.

Grave of Muschelkalk Ringelnatz in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In post-war Berlin , Muschelkalk worked for Henssel-Verlag , which reissued a number of Ringelnatz books and also published translations of contemporary literature at the time. Muschelkalk transferred numerous books from English and French into German under the name of Leonharda Gescher for this and other publishers. a. by Saint-John Perse , Marguerite Duras and James Baldwin . In addition, she put together collections of Ringelnatz poems. She also published some of the letters Ringelnatz had written to her with explanatory text in between ( Reiseriefe an M , 1964).

Muschelkalk Ringelnatz died in February 1977 at the age of 78 in Berlin. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: II-WG-6). She rests there by the side of her second husband Julius Gescher and not far from the grave of her first husband Joachim Ringelnatz.

literature

  • Barbara Hartlage-Laufenberg: In love, Muschelkalk. The changeful life of Leonharda Ringelnatz. Edition Karo , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937881-19-5 .
  • Maria Reichel: Leonharda Pieper - Muschelkalk Ringelnatz , in: Sabine Jung, Stadt Wurzen (ed.): The women around Ringelnatz (exhibition catalog), Wurzen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814317-5-9 , pp. 116–129.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Jochens, Herbert May: The cemeteries in Berlin-Charlottenburg. History of the cemetery facilities and their tomb culture . Stapp, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87776-056-2 . Pp. 224–225, here p. 225.
personal data
SURNAME Ringelnatz, shell limestone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieper, Leonharda (maiden name); Gescher, Leonharda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator and wife of Joachim Ringelnatz
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastenburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1977
Place of death Berlin