Wanda von Sacher-Masoch

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Wanda von Sacher-Masoch in the satirical newspaper Die Bombe (1879)

Wanda von Sacher-Masoch (born March 14, 1845 in Graz as Angelika Aurora Rümelin , † probably spring 1933 in Paris ; pseudonym Wanda von Dunajew, D. Dolorès ) was an Austrian writer and translator.

Life

Childhood and youth

Angelika Rümelin grew up in Graz as the daughter of Marie Rümelins (née Schuber) and the civil servant Wilhelm Rümelin, who came from an old Württemberg family . When she was fifteen years old, her parents separated and she fell into poverty. After completing a sewing school, she earned her living by doing laundry and sewing work as well as selling tobacco and soda.

Life partner and children

An intensive correspondence with the then respected writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , which she began in 1871 under the pseudonym Wanda von Dunajew (after the protagonist in Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs ), finally culminated in the marriage in 1873. The relationship, from which three children emerged, was difficult and was additionally strained by the precarious financial situation and the frequent changes of residence ( Bruck an der Mur , Budapest , Graz , Leipzig and Vienna ). The Sacher-Masochs separated in 1883 and were divorced in 1886. Wanda von Sacher-Masoch lived from 1882 to 1888 with her lover Armand or Jacques Saint-Cère (di Armand Rosenthal, 1855–1898) in France, then for a few years in La Neuveville (Switzerland) and at changing addresses in Paris.

Career as a writer and translator

Wanda von Sacher-Masoch had already published The Novel of a Virtuous Woman before her first independent publication . A counterpart to the 'divorced woman' by Sacher-Masoch (1873), first smaller feature pages and short stories in magazines such as the “Neue [n] Pester Journal”, “Auf der Höhe. International Revue ”or in the“ Belletristische Blätter ”Leopold von Sacher-Masochs. 14 of her 35 short stories were published in magazines. As can be seen from the titles of several other publications ( Echter Hermelin. Stories from the Noble World , 1879; Die Damen im Pelz , 1881), she repeatedly referred to the works of her husband, some of which she translated into French after her divorce translated. Her memoirs achieved multiple editions and have been translated into Bulgarian, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. She responded to Carl Felix von Schlichtegroll's harsh criticism of these with the addendum Masochism and Masochists (1908).

No reliable information is available for the period after 1909.

Works

Fiction

  • The novel of a virtuous woman. A counterpart to the "divorced woman" by Sacher-Masoch. Bohemia, Prague 1873.
  • Real ermine . Stories from the noble world . Frobeen, Bern 1879.
  • The ladies in fur . Stories. EL Morgenstern, Leipzig 1882.
  • My life confession . Memoirs. Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin / Leipzig 1906, full text online in the Gutenberg project and also online  - Internet Archive
  • Masochism and masochists . Addendum to the life confession . Hermann Seemann, Berlin / Leipzig 1908.

Translations

From the French

  • Georges Ohnet : The right of the child . Novel in two volumes (1894).

In French

  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: L'Amour cruel à travers les ages. La czarine noire et autres contes sur la flagellation (1907, nine short stories)
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: L'Amour cruel à travers les ages. La pantoufle de Sapho et autres contes (1907, nine short stories)
  • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: La jalousie d'une impératrice (1908, four novellas)

literature

  • Ingrid Spörk: Love and Decay: Family Stories and Love Discourses in Realism and Late Realism . Königshausen & Neumann, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8260-1490-1 (from page 190 dedicated to Wanda von Sacher-Masoch).
  • Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815. (2nd revised edition - online). March 1, 2011, accessed on March 8, 2020 (German).
  • Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from. In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 3-205-79348-X , pp. 2797-2798.
  • Wulfhard Stahl: Wanda von Sacher-Masoch: An extraordinary temperament . In: derStandard.at , July 2, 2017, accessed on December 16, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from . In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. tape 3 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 3-205-79348-X , p. 2797–2798, here p. 2797 (The information on the date of death "presumably after 1933" is based on information provided by Mechthild Saternus, granddaughter of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch in 2008.).
  2. ^ Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from . In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women . tape 4 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79348-9 , pp. 2797–2798, here p. 2797 .
  3. ^ Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from . In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women . tape 4 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79348-9 , pp. 2797-2798 .
  4. ^ Wulfhard Stahl: Wanda von Sacher-Masoch: An extraordinary temperament. In: DerStandard. July 2, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  5. ^ W. Stahl: Sacher-Masoch, Wanda von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 (2nd revised edition - online). March 1, 2011, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  6. ^ Wulfhard Stahl: Sacher-Masoch Wanda from . In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women . tape 4 . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79348-9 , pp. 2797-2798, here p. 2798 .
personal data
SURNAME Sacher-Masoch, Wanda from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wanda von Dunajew (pseudonym); Rümelin, Angelika Aurora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer and the wife of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH 1933
Place of death Paris