Grete Gulbransson

Grete Gulbransson born Jehly ( born July 31, 1882 in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, † March 26, 1934 in Munich) was an Austrian writer and poet home.

Life

Margaret was the daughter of the painter Jacob Jehly and Wanda Jehly (born Baroness von Pollnitz, widow Wanda Douglass ) in Bludenz and grew up as " Haldagreteli " on the heap on. After the death of her parents, the 19 -year-old in Munich settled where they tied closer contacts with the legendary Simplicissimus - circle around the publisher and patron of culture Albert Langen. By Langen, she met the Norwegian painter and Simplicissimuskarikaturisten Olaf Gulbransson, whom she married in Munich on August 14, 1906.

The marriage with Gulbransson one out of which the architect and church builder Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, was divorced in March 1923. Due to financial difficulties had to Grete Gulbransson her Munich house Kefer nest, rent, which is why her center of life end of the 1920s shifted back to Vorarlberg. From 1930 to January 1934, she lived at Castle White Mountain in Batschuns.

Literary creation

Grete Gulbransson could make a name for himself with the Vorarlberg published in 1934 and since then several editions beloved family saga shadow. Due to her parents' house they had already come as a child with culture and art in contact concerned with literature, especially with poetry. In 1914 she published her first volume of poetry, which she called poems. The second followed in 1922 ( Perpetual reputation ). In later years, she also dabbled in drama, so she published in 1932, the piece home to Johann Josef Batlogg. Also in 1932 was the ballad Ehreguta and minor prose sketches. In addition to her literary career led her sporadically since 1892, since 1896, consistently diary. This of it as a life's work titled, extensive records, 222 volumes with about 90,000 handwritten pages that provide detailed insights into cultural events regionally (Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein ) and internationally (Italy, Munich, Vienna, Berlin, England, Norway) embossed backgrounds. At the same time, they document the performed during the first decades of the twentieth century in almost all areas of life paradigm shift that changed the face of European life-world radically.

Discount

The bulk of the correspondence is privately owned, the diary originals belong to the museum Vorarlberg ( Bregenz). They were the Research Institute Brenner -Archiv ( Universität Innsbruck) provided for the conduct of the project edition of the diaries Grete Gulbranssons available (duration: 1993 - 2006).

Works

Prose, poetry, drama

  • Beloved shadow. A Chronicle of the home. Grote, Berlin, 1934. (New edition Bregenz, H. Lingenhöle and Co 1995. ISBN 3-85162-016- X)
  • Poems. Fischer, Berlin 1914
  • Perpetual reputation. Musarion, Munich 1922
  • Batlogg. Montafon home Pcs 6 Bildern.Selbstverlag the tourist office, Schruns 1932
  • Ehreguta. Ballad. F. Dworzak, Bludenz 1932
  • Publication of prose sketches in Vorarlberg's daily paper, in the Vorarlberg magazine home, and in Lake Constance book.

Diaries

  • The green bird of the ether. Grete Gulbransson: Diaries Volume I: 1904-1912, ed. u come. v. Ulrike Lang. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3- 87877-690 X -
  • My strange world. Grete Gulbransson: Diaries Volume II: 1913-1918, ed. u come. v. Ulrike Lang. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-87877-692-6
  • Beloved Liechtenstein. Diaries Volume IV: 1927-1929, ed. u come. v. Ulrike Lang, Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87877-696-9.
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