Valeska von Gallwitz

Valeska von Gallwitz (born January 22, 1833 in Glogau , † April 9, 1888 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

She was born as Agnes Valeska Eugenie von Tempsky and came from a noble family who, originally based in Pomerellen, had been in Prussia since 1415 and settled in Silesia around 1640 . Her father Karl Gustav von Tempsky and her brothers, like most of their ancestors, were officers in the Prussian army . The adventurer, painter and journalist Gustav Ferdinand von Tempsky was her cousin.

Valeska von Tempsky grew up in Glogau and married in 1855 in Jauer August von Gallwitz called Dreyling († 1914 in Breslau), landlord on Dziersno near Gleiwitz . She lived in Breslau , Hanover and Berlin and began to write in 1868.

She published her first novel Editha and other stories from 1876 in the magazines of the Münchmeyer Verlag in Dresden , which Karl May was responsible for as editor, under the pseudonym Eugen Valeski . Another pseudonym she used was C. Michael .

The Goethe and Schiller archive of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar has an exchange of letters between Valeska von Gallwitz and the writer and editor Joseph Kürschner from the years 1877–1885.

Works

• Editha , Roman, in: Deutsches Familienblatt I, Dresden 1876, Verlag HG Münchmeyer
• The grandmother's talisman , narrative, in: "Celebration hours on the domestic stove", Dresden 1876, Verlag HG Münchmeyer
• A stepmother , narrative, in: Deutsches Familienblatt II, Dresden 1877, Verlag HG Münchmeyer
• Wrested from death , novella , in: Deutsches Familienblatt II, Dresden 1877, Verlag HG Münchmeyer
• Jelka , Novelle, Stuttgart 1878, Verlag Richter and Kappler
• The castle at Roche Malon , Roman, Freiburg 1879, Kiepert publishing house
• Jelka , Roman. 2nd ed., Falkenberg O / S. 1882, Bartelt publishing house
• Worn from death , novel, (2 volumes) Freiburg 1880, Kiepert publishing house
• Two women's hearts , character picture, Freiburg 1880, Kiepert publishing house
• From palace and hut , novellas, Leipzig 1881, Schulze & Co
• Magdalena , Roman, Breslau 1883, Schottländer publishing house

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogical Handbook of noble houses Part B . Justus Perthes publishing house, Gotha 1933.
• Gallwitz, Valeska v. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 243 ( digitized version ).
• Michael, C. . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 44 ( digitized version ).
• Volker Griese : Karl May. People in his life .
• Roland Schmid: A Countess of Gallwitz , in: Communications of the Karl May Society . No. 70 (1986), p. 24