Regina Ullmann

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Regina Ullmann , also called Rega (born December 14, 1884 in St. Gallen , Switzerland ; † January 6, 1961 in Ebersberg , Upper Bavaria ), was an Austrian-Swiss poet and storyteller .

Life

Regina Ullmann was born as the second daughter of the Jewish- Austrian embroidery merchant Richard Ullmann (1842–1889) and his German wife Hedwig Ullmann (1859–1938). The family was entitled to live in Hohenems in Vorarlberg . Apparently the daughter was a highly sensitive and at the same time clumsy child with language and writing inhibitions, so that she was initially not accepted into elementary school. In a private institute in St. Gallen she then received the hoped-for funding in order to complete primary and secondary school from 1896.

In 1902 she and her mother moved to Munich . She worked temporarily at the Bavarian State Library and attended courses in literature and art history with her mother. And she found access to well-known poets such as Ina Seidel , Hans Carossa , Ludwig Derleth and Rainer Maria Rilke . From 1908 she exchanged letters with Rilke, who later became her mentor and supporter and whom she met for the first time in 1912.

In January 1906 Regina Ullmann gave birth to her illegitimate daughter Gerda in Vienna. It came from a relationship with the economist Hanns Dorn . On July 18, 1908, their second illegitimate daughter Camilla (1908-2000) was born in Munich. The child's father was the psychoanalyst Otto Gross . The mother had to raise both children with foster parents. In 1911 she converted to the Catholic Church in Altötting . Since then, she has been considered an idiosyncratic, Christian-oriented narrator. Her “pious” affection for small things and simple people as well as her careful, detailed writing style are characteristic of her works.

Unmarried, without a trained profession, at times suffering from severe depression, clinging to her own mother, she only gradually became known - apart from her readings - with her (first) volume of stories, Die Landstrasse . Thanks to Rilke's mediation, she received the necessary financial support, first from her publisher Anton Kippenberg , and later from Swiss patrons and Catholic aid organizations. Around 1920 she got to know other poets: Thomas Mann , Robert Musil , Max Pulver and Albert Steffen , then in 1923 Carl Jacob Burckhardt .

In 1936 she had to leave Germany, excluded from the Protection Association of German Writers , and returned to St. Gallen in 1938 via several stations in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. There she lived in a Catholic nursing home until shortly before her death. In 1950 she received Swiss citizenship.

After the war, Regina Ullmann enjoyed a certain recognition as a writer: in 1949 she was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . In the same year a contribution to her and her work appeared in a volume of the Swiss Book Guild Gutenberg about Swiss poets, in 1954 an entry in the lexicon of women and a book by her friends for her 70th birthday. Her hometown of St. Gallen awarded her the culture prize that same year . Since 1955 she was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Ullmann spent the last months of her life under the care of her daughter Camilla. She died on Epiphany 1961 in Ebersberg, Bavaria, and was buried in Feldkirchen near Munich.

Works

Original editions

  • The field sermon. Dramatic poetry. Demuth, Frankfurt am Main 1907.
  • From the earth of life. Poems in prose (with a preface by Rainer Maria Rilke ). Frauen-Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1910.
  • Poems. Insel, Leipzig 1919.
  • The country road. Stories. Insel, Leipzig 1921.
  • The baroque church read down from a votive panel and reported in detail, at the same time with a number of folk tales. Grethlein / Seldwyla, Zurich 1925.
  • The dream of the angel. Narrative. In: The onion fish . Journal about books, art and culture (edited by Wolfgang von Weber), 20th year, issue 2, special supplement. Hans von Weber Verlag, Munich 1927.
  • Four stories. Contains: The Telegram , Ms. Laura Nägeli's fashion store , The lost cruiser , From a leper . Printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper in an edition of 150 numbered prints. Rupprecht-Presse (Volume 48), Munich 1930.
  • From the bread of the breastfeeding. Stories , 2 volumes. Rentsch, Erlenbach-Zurich 1932.
  • The apple in church and other stories. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1934.
  • The angel wreath. Stories. Benziger, Einsiedeln / Cologne 1942.
  • Madonna on Glass and Other Stories. Benziger, Einsiedeln / Cologne 1944.
  • Memories of Rilke. Letters from the poet and the Geneva speech by Carl Jacob Burckhardt for Regina Ullmann. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1945.
  • The honest thief and other stories. Good writings, Basel 1946.
  • From an old pub sign. Stories. Benziger, Einsiedeln / Zurich 1949.
  • Retribution by Angels and Other Tales , ed. v. Ellen Delp . With the remarks by Rainer Maria Rilke and a foreword by Regina Ullmann. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1952.
  • The black candle. Stories. Benziger, Einsiedeln / Zurich 1954.
  • Collected Works. 2 volumes, compiled by Regina Ullmann and Ellen Delp. Benziger, Einsiedeln / Zurich 1960.

Newer editions

  • Small gallery. A selection from their stories. With an introduction to the life and work of Elisabeth Antkowiak . St. Benno, Leipzig undated (1975).
  • Stories, prose pieces, poems. 2 volumes, compiled by Regina Ullmann and Ellen Delp. New ed. v. Friedhelm Kemp . Kösel, Munich 1978.
  • Selected stories. Ed. V. Friedhelm Kemp. Suhrkamp ( BS 651), Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • Golden stylus. And other stories. Schumacher-Gebler, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-920856-42-2 .
  • I took the detour instead of the way. A reader. Ed. V. Charles Linsmayer . Huber, Frauenfeld 2000, ISBN 3-7193-1220-8 .
  • The country road. Narratives . With an afterword by Peter Hamm . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-312-00401-2 .
  • Girgel and Lisette. Fragment of an unpublished pastoral novel. In: JUNE. Magazine for Literature and Culture, Issue No. 51/52, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1157-0 , pp. 195-219.

Correspondence

  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Correspondence with Regina Ullmann and Ellen Delp. Ed. Walter Simon . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1987.

Appreciations

In Munich , Regina-Ullmann-Straße is named after her, as is the street of the same name in Feldkirchen near Munich .

literature

  • Regina Ullmann on her seventieth birthday. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1954.
  • Entry in the Lexicon of Women , Volume 2, Col. 1504f (photo before Col. 1441). Encyclios, Zurich 1954.
  • Barbara Binder et al. in: Helvetic profiles. 47 writers from German-speaking Switzerland since 1800. Edited by the Zurich Seminar for Literary Criticism with Werner Weber, Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1981, pp. 272–277.
  • Olga Brand in: Quiet Work. Swiss poets. Gutenberg Book Guild , Zurich 1949.
  • Eveline Hasler : Stone means love. Regina Ullmann and Otto Gross. Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-312-00397-0 .
  • Christine Kanz: Gender differences in literature and psychoanalysis. Lou Andreas-Salomé , Margarete Susman , Franziska zu Reventlow and Regina Ullman in dialogue with Sigmund Freud and Otto Gross. In: 1st International Otto Gross Congress. Bauhaus Archive, Berlin 1999. Ed. Raimund Dehmlow and Gottfried Heuer. LiteraturWwissenschaft.de u. Laurentius, Marburg / Hannover 2000, pp. 142–166.
  • Friedhelm Kemp : Epilogue in: Regina Ullmann: Selected stories. Edited by Friedhelm Kemp. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997 (2nd edition).
  • Konrad Weiß in: Münchner Dichterbuch. Ed. V. Arthur Huebscher . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1929.
  • Christa Bürger : But I am loneliness and I love myself. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet Regina Ullmann. Series essay and discourse , Germany radio , November 6, 2011. ( mp3 )
  • Walter Fähnders: Girgel and Lisette. Regina Ullmann's pastoral novel. In: JUNE. Magazine for Literature and Culture, Issue No. 51/52, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1157-0 , pp. 187–194.
  • Don Steve Stephens: Regina Ullmann: Biography, literary reception, interpretation , Austin, Univ. of Texas, Phil. Diss. v. Dec. 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rega
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1961
Place of death Ebersberg