Sylvia von Harden

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Sylvia von Harden (born March 28, 1894 in Hamburg , † June 4, 1963 in Croxley Green ( Rickmansworth / Hertfordshire ); actually: Sylvia von Halle , from 1922: Sylvia Lehr ) was a German poet and journalist .

A certain notoriety as an example of the New Objectivity became Otto Dix ' Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926), located in the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Center Pompidou in Paris is.

Life

Sylvia was the ninth of eleven children in the family of the Hamburg authorized representative Benjamin von Halle. She attended a school in Berlin until 1912 and then stayed in her parents' house until 1915, whose "bourgeois atmosphere" she could no longer endure. She worked for the Rauscher publishing house in Zurich until 1921, when her partner was the early Expressionist poet Ferdinand Hardekopf . In 1922 she married Friedrich Carl Lehr . The marriage lasted only a few weeks, since Lehr committed suicide in late January 1922.

As a journalist she worked for the Berliner Tageblatt , the Berliner Volks-Zeitung and the Prager Presse, among others .

In 1933 she emigrated to England via Switzerland and Italy . In later years she wrote book reviews and articles for newspapers in England and Germany ( Frankfurter Rundschau ).

Works

  • together with Leo Scherpenbach (Hrsg.): The book box: Monthly for literature, graphics and book review. Munich: Bachmair 1919–1921 (Reprint: Nendeln / Liechtenstein: Kraus 1977)
  • Tangled Cities 1920
  • Robespierre: A novella. [around 1924]
  • The Italian Gondola: Poems 1927
  • The Longstone lighthouse girl. 1958 ( Silberstern series of books for young people no.74 )

literature

  • Reimar Bendix: "She represents an entire era": Dix's portrait of the journalist Sylvia von Harden as the leading figure of a new culture? In: Klaus-Dieter Weber (Ed.): Managed culture or artistic freedom? Snapshots from the Weimar Republic 1918-1933. Kassel: Kassel Univ. Press 2002 ISBN 3-89958-005-2 , pp. 98-133. Online resource
  • Anna Rheinsberg: How colorfully my otherness unfolds: poets of the twenties; Poems and portraits. Mannheim: Persona 1993 ISBN 3-924652-21-X , pp. 46–56 (with 8 poems)
  • Renate Wall: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers in exile: 1933 to 1945. Bd. 1. Freiburg i. Br .: Kore 1995 ISBN 3-926023-48-1 , pp. 139-141. Review of the book
  • Harden, Sylvia von. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 10: Güde – Hein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22690-X , pp. 179-181.

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personal data
SURNAME Harden, Sylvia von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Sylvia von; Lehr, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1963
Place of death Croxley Green ( Rickmansworth , Hertfordshire )