Sophie Gallwitz

Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz , also Sophie D. Gallwitz , (born March 30, 1873 in Wernigerode , † December 30, 1948 in Quelkhorn ) was a German writer .

biography

Gallwitz was the daughter of pastor Karl Gallwitz (1828–1879) and his wife Marie. She attended secondary school for girls. In 1888 she moved to Braunschweig after the death of her mother. She then trained as an opera singer in Munich . In 1898 she appeared at the Koblenz Theater and in Dresden in 1899.

She lived in Bremen from 1900 and was engaged as a soloist at the Bremen Theater in 1901/02 . In 1902 she gave up her profession as a singer and worked as an author and journalist. She soon made a name for herself as a music critic. In 1904 she explained her self-image as a reviewer in the magazine Die Frau - a monthly magazine for the entire women's life of our time . Her talent as a writer was shown in her three books on the history of Bremen. The work was criticized for inaccuracies, even if it succeeded in presenting the history of Bremen clearly and appealingly. In the Bremer Tageblatt she published numerous articles on women's rights and criticized the conventional image of girls. In 1908 she moved into a shared apartment (Am Wall 163) with her partner, the Jewish music teacher Margarethe Wolff. The relationship lasted until the end of her life and survived the endangerment of the Nazi era.

It was at the instigation of Alfred Faust , then head of advertising at Kaffee Hag , editor of the cultural magazine Die Güldenkammer , founded by Ludwig Roselius , which appeared in Bremen from 1910 to 1916. Paula Modersohn-Becker also became known through her with articles in her magazine and the newspaper of the women's movement Die Frau and in 1915/17 with the work An artist's letters and diary sheets by Paula Modersohn-Becker . She maintained close contact with the Worpswede artists' colony . In 1922 she published the anniversary publication Thirty Years Worpswede . Artist, spirit, get out. The romanticizing work, however, misunderstood the effects of the November Revolution of 1918.

As a cultural journalist, Gallwitz was a connoisseur of musical and literary works. She also wrote in the Bremer Tageblatt and in the Bremer Nachrichten (including women in Bremen's culture in older and more recent times ) as well as in the literary private courses founded by Wilhelm and Wera Tidemann in 1919 , from which the Neue Vortragsgesellschaft emerged in 1924 .

Through her extensive literary work, she became important in the Bremen women's movement . The magazine Die Frau printed around 40 articles from her between 1904 and 1941 on the emancipation of women as descriptions, criticism and suggestions. During the time of National Socialism , she criticized the role of women in this time. When her Am Wall apartment was destroyed in World War II , she lost her valuable library. She now lived in Quelkhorn near Fischerhude in an open house of spiritual encounter. She owned the house together with her partner Mrs. Wolf. Your tombstone is on the Quelkhorn cemetery as a cultural monument.

Honor

• The Sophie Gallwitz Street in Bremen - Obervieland was named after her.

Works

• Paula Modersohn-Becker. Letters and diary sheets . German house library or Kestner Society, Hanover 1917.
• Thirty years in Worpswede. Artist, spirit, becoming. Bremen 1922, ISBN 9781149349960 .
• The old baron . Wilhelmshaven 1924
• The new poet and the woman . Berlin 1927.
• The Bremen educator Betty Gleim - 1781-1827 . In: Bremer Nachrichten of December 13, 1931.
• Fate is calling. A picture of Cosima Wagner's life . Leipzig 1938
• The theater . Phases in the figure of the actress , in Emmy Wolff, ed .: Generations of women in pictures. Herbig, Berlin 1928, pp. 103-107

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Christine-Holzner-Rabe: Gallwitz, Sophie Dorothea . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Christine Holzner-Rabe: Gallwitz, Sophie Dorothee (Dorothea) . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 166-168.

Web links

• Portrait women museum
• Literature by and about Sophie Gallwitz in the catalog of the German National Library