Ulla Dydo

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Ulla E. Dydo , real name Ursula Elisabeth Eder , ( February 4, 1925 in Zurich - September 10, 2017 in New York City ) was an author , editor and a renowned Gertrude Stein expert. She was a professor at the City University of New York and author of Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises (1923-1934).

biography

Ulla Dydo was the daughter of Robert Eder (1885–1944), professor of pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry and the president of the International Women's Council and Swiss  women's rights activist , Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer . In 1948 she accompanied the Swiss politician , banker and philanthropist Paul Lachenal as a secretary and biographer on his trip to the USA. She then decided to live in the United States . There she studied at the University of Yale and later became a professor at the City University of New York in New York. In the 1970s she began her first research on Gertrude Stein. She described it as follows in her working notes: Working Notes for THE LANGUAGE THAT RISES: THE VOICE OF GERTRUDE STEIN 1923–1934 “I started working on Gertrude Stein in the late seventies and focused on the 'stanzas in meditation '. When I started examining the Stanzas manuscript at Yale, I realized that it is possible to follow the creative process of their writing in the manuscripts - an exciting and tedious affair… ”.

Ulla Dydo has become a recognized stone expert over the years. As an author, she has published, among others: Coming to Light: American Poets in the Twentieth Century , Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises (1923–1934) and A Stein Reader in 1993, a text that revealed Stein's constant questioning of the convention. She was quoted in numerous papers on Gertrude Stein. Ulla Dydo interviewed Isabel Wilder ( Thornton Wilder's sister ) about her studies on stone, visited her weekly from 1985 to 1995 and thus had access to many printed and written sources. She published this in The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, edited with Edward M. Burns and William Rice . She also supported the latter as an artist, such as the painters Dieter Hall and Daniel Garbade or the authors Elisabeth Lennard and Jim Neu.

Ulla Dydo died in New York in September 2017 at the age of 92.

family

In 1963 she married John Stephen Dydo (1922-2004); their son Malcolm was born in 1967. In her second marriage she married the pianist Nurit Tilles.

Works

  • Gertrude Stein; Thornton Wilder; Edward Burns; Ulla E. Dydo; William Rice: Mirrors of friendship: The letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder , Publisher: Yale University Press, 1996,
  • Gertrude Stein; Ulla E. Dydo: Descriptions of literature: texts and contexts in the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers: October 8-December 14, 2012 . Publisher: Kniecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Press
  • Ulla E. Dydo; William Rice: Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises: 1923-1934, Northwestern University Press, 1996
  • Gertrude Stein; Ulla E. Dydo: A Stein reader , 1996, Northwestern University Press, 1993
  • Elizabeth Lennard; Ulla E. Dydo; Gertrude Stein: Objects lie on a table , Filigrans editions, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris 2000
  • Ulla E. Dydo; Peter Bichsel : Dieter Hall  : Bilder = Paintings: Dieter Hall; Gallery Margrit Gass (Basel)
  • Ulla E. Dydo: "Stanzas in Meditation", The other Autobiografy,
  • Ulla E. Dydo: Must Horses Drink. Or "Any Language Is Funny If You Don't Understand It"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulla Dydo , biography of Charles Bernstein on jacket2.org, accessed August 31, 2019
  2. ^ Friedrich Dobler: Eder, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ International Council of Women (ICW). Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Soon, Wambly. "Blessed Land of Neutrality, Scenery, Watches and DDT". New York Post .1948
  5. ↑ Ulla E. Dydo | Jacket2. Retrieved October 18, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ John Whittier-Ferguson: Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises 1923-1934 (review) . In: Modernism / modernity . tape 12 , no. 4 , November 15, 2005, ISSN  1080-6601 , p. 723–726 , doi : 10.1353 / mod.2005.0122 ( jhu.edu [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo: A Stein reader . Evanston, Ill .: Northwestern University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8101-1058-X ( gov.au [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Janet Malcolm : Strangers in Paradise . In: The New Yorker . November 6, 2006, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  9. ^ Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder: The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder . Yale University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-300-06774-7 ( google.co.uk [accessed October 18, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Holland Cotter: BILL RICE: 'Paintings and Works on Paper' . In: The New York Times . June 16, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 30, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Elizabeth Lennard; Ulla E Dydo, Objects lie on a table , Filigrans publishing house, 2000, Les filles du calvaire gallery, Paris
  12. ^ Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises | Northwestern University Press. Retrieved October 18, 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ Ulla Dydo (1925-2017). Accessed August 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dydo, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dydo, Ulla E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author, editor and Gertrude Stein expert
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 10th September 2017
Place of death New York City