Thekla Lingen
Thekla Lingen (born March 6 or 18, 1866 in Goldingen / Kurland ; died November 7, 1931 in Eittenau or Eitenau ) was a German writer .
Life
She made an early decision to become an actress and pursued this career in Saint Petersburg from 1880 until she married. After that, she continued to circulate in the German-speaking districts of the city. A first volume of poetry appeared in Berlin in 1898 and received a lot of attention. After collecting a second collection of poems and a volume of novels in the following years, she gave up journalism. Nothing is known about her further life except for the fact that she died in a psychiatric hospital.
Between 1900 and 1914, some of her poems were set to songs by Franz Dannehl, Franz Bachmann and Alexander von Zemlinsky . Gisela Brinker-Gabler re -edited some of her poems in 1978.
plant
- At the crossroads (poems, 1898)
- The beautiful women (novella, 1900)
- From darkness and twilight (poems 1902)
literature
- Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 203.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thekla Lingen in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ So consistently the information, for example in Brinker-Gabler and in the DNB. This could mean the W ittenau sanatoriums in Berlin-Wittenau
- ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler: German poets from the 16th century to the present in 1978. ISBN 3-596-23701-7 . Pp. 274-277
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lingen, Thekla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lingen, Thecla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1866 or March 18, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goldingen , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1931 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Eittenau or Berlin-Wittenau |