Bertha Eckstein-Diener
Bertha Diener ( born March 18, 1874 in Vienna, † 20 February 1948 in Geneva), better known by her pseudonym Sir Galahad, was an Austrian writer and travel journalist. Her book Mothers and Amazons, the first focused on women's cultural history, is considered a classic of the matriarchy.
Life
Bertha Helene servant came from a manufacturing family and got an education as a higher daughter. Against the wishes of her parents, she married in 1898 Friedrich Eckstein ( 1861-1939 ), a Viennese manufacturers and independent scholar. Like her husband, she was a member of the Viennese Masonic Lodge of the Theosophical Society Adyar ( Adyar -TG). The cornerstone rented in Baden near Vienna, Helen 19-21, the St. Genois Schlössl (now Villa Aichelburg ) in which they led a salon. Her guests included, among others, Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos, and Arthur Schnitzler, which incorporated the vast land the Ecksteinvilla and the 1899 born there son Percy ( 1899-1962 ) in the plot of his drama premiered in 1911.
In 1900 she met the living on Lake Geneva, wealthy Jewish physician Theodor Beer ( 1866-1919 ), know with whom she had a relationship from 1903. 1904 Bertha left her husband and son and took her first major trips that have taken her to Egypt, Greece and England. 1909, therefore, it came to the divorce of Eckstein. Beer in 1904 was a 1905 made to his disadvantage staunch morality process, which attracted some public attention. 1910, she had another son, Roger Diener, whose father was a berry, and they were placed with a foster family. Theodor Beer, deprived by the judgment of his professional and social position, as well as impoverished due to the war, 1919, on the day of the auction of his villa in Lucerne life. Roger took first time in 1936 - first epistolary - contact with his mother, who then visited him in 1938 in Berlin. 1939 Friedrich Eckstein died at the age of 78 years.
Bertha servant initially wrote under the pseudonym Ahasvera ( " The eternal traveler" ). However, their most famous works, she published as Sir Galahad, according to a panel Knights of King Arthur. In addition to her published books, she wrote a series of essays for newspapers and magazines and translated three works of American journalists and esoteric writer Prentice Mulford. Between 1914 and 1919 she wrote conics God, in which she criticized the situation of women during the early days. From 1925 to 1931 she worked on Mothers and Amazons, one focused on women's cultural history, which is mainly based on the researches of Bachofen.
She died on 20 February 1948 - five weeks after an operation - in Geneva. Her latest work on a cultural history of England remained unfinished.
In 2008 in Vienna Landstrasse ( 3rd District ) was the Bertha Eckstein- road named after her.
Works
- In the Palace of Minos. Albert Langen, Munich 1913 (2nd edition 1924)
- The conics of God. Novel, Albert Langen, Munich 1921 ( 2nd edition 1926, 3rd edition 1932)
- Idiots Guide to the Russian literature. Dedicated to the backbone of the world. Albert Langen, Munich 1925
- Mothers and Amazons. An outline of female realms. Albert Langen, Munich 1932 First reprinted in 1954 in the Non Stop - library (Berlin), then from 1981 at Ullsteinhaus ( here subtitled Love and Power in the Women's Empire) in paperback