Emmy Hennings

Emmy Hennings or Emmy Ball-Hennings ( born January 17, 1885 in Flensburg, † August 10 1948 in Sorengo near Lugano ) was a German writer and comedienne.

Life and work

Emmy Hennings was the daughter of Ernst Friedrich Matthias Taklers Cordsen and grew up in Flensburg. There, she attended elementary school and then worked as a maid. At 18, she married 1903 amateur actor, with whom she joined a traveling theater. Their daughter grew up ( in the early years ) on with his grandparents in Flensburg.

1904 could be Emmy Hennings divorced and hoofed it as a lecture artist alone by Germany. 1905 she appeared in Elmshorn in the theater company Schmidt- Agte and played in Elmshorn and Kappeln. At that time she was probably along with fellow members of the troupe actor William Vio. From 1906 to 1908 it belonged to the troupe by Oskar Ludwig Georg Bronner, who recorded the then Schleswig -Holstein.

Although unskilled, to Emmy could obviously draw some success in the Force, as Bronner held at the end of the season in the most recorded places ( Tønder, Marne, Plön ) per a charity event for them. 1909 Hennings entered Berlin in Cabaret Neopathetischen of new clubs. During this time she met the journalist and writer Ferdinand Hardekopf, with whom she in 1910 a trip through France undertook. Shortly afterwards, Emmy Hennings separated from him again, forcing her into prostitution temporarily. There followed years of alternating stays in Berlin and Munich. In Berlin, she went temporarily on together with Claire Waldoff, in Munich, she worked as Diseuse among others in the Künstlerkneipe Simpl, where she met her future husband Hugo Ball, the painter and illustrator Hanns Bolz and numerous other artists.

In 1914 she was arrested for theft and suspected aid to desert for several months in a Munich jail. 1915, shortly after her release, she eventually traveled first to Berlin before, along with Hugo Ball in Switzerland, emigrated. In Zurich, she and Hugo Ball, Sophie Taeuber, Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco and others the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dadaism. To give more space to the visual arts, one later founded the Galerie Dada.

1920 Emmy Hennings married Hugo Ball In their Ticino time both turned away from Dadaism and dealt intensively with Catholicism. At that time a close, until her death lasting friendship with Hermann Hesse began.

After Hugo Ball's death in 1927, Hennings took care of his estate and wrote autobiographical works, stories, tales and legends. After her death in 1948 she was buried at her husband's side in Gentilino.

Quotes

" An upset stomach is much easier to cure than a mental overload. "

Writings

  • The last joy. Poems. Leipzig: Wolff ( Judgement Day 5) 1913
  • Prison. Novel. Berlin: Drawing 1919
  • The stigma. A diary. Berlin: Drawing 1920
  • Bright night. Poems. Berlin: Drawing 1922
  • The eternal song. Berlin: Zippers
  • The way to love. A book of cities, churches and saints. Munich: Kösel & Pustet 1926
  • Hugo Ball His life in letters and poems. With a foreword by Hermann Hesse. Berlin: Fischer 1930
  • Hugo Ball's way to God. A book of remembrance. Munich: Kösel & Pustet 1931
  • The birth of Jesus. Tells of children. Nuremberg: Glock 1932
  • Flower and flame. Story of a youth. Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger 1938
  • The wreath. Poems. Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger 1939
  • The volatile game. Detours a woman. Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger 1940
  • Fairy tale by the fireplace. Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger 1943
  • The Earthly Paradise and other legends. Lucerne: Stocker 1945
  • Call and echo. My Life with Hugo Ball Einsiedeln, Zurich, Cologne: Benziger 1953
  • Letters to Hermann Hesse. Edited by Anne Marie bulk - Hennings. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1956
  • Beloved Ticino. Zurich: The Ark 1976
  • Christmas joy. Narratives. Zurich: The Ark 1976
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