Frida Uhl

Frida Maria ( Friederike ) Cornelia Strindberg Uhl ( born April 4, 1872 in Mondsee, † June 28, 1943 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian writer, literary critic, cabaret founder, translator and screenwriter.

Life

Frida Uhl Strindberg was the daughter of Friedrich Uhl, a respected theater critic, novelist and editor of the official Wiener Zeitung. She attended convent schools for nine years in Gorizia, Bad Reichenhall, London and Paris. The acquired language skills while you were good stead later as a translator.

In 1892 it was as a literary correspondent for the Viennese newspaper to Berlin, where she was 23 years older Swedish playwright August Strindberg met in January 1893 and married on May 2, 1893 Helgoland.

In marriage they lived for financial reasons, on an estate of their grandparents in Dornach Castle in Saxony, or in a house nearby. Her husband stayed on case by case basis, in Saxony and Klam and was active as a writer and painter. 1894, the daughter Kerstin was born in 1897 was a divorce.

From a liaison with Frank Wedekind she had the son Friedrich Strindberg, who also grew up in Saxen.

Frida Strindberg died alone in the State Hospital in Salzburg and was buried in her birthplace Mondsee, where she had last lived.

Professional and artistic creation

Strindberg Uhl worked in Vienna as a translator for publishers, among other things, she translated several pieces of a complete edition of Oscar Wilde, as some initial translation.

Strindberg Uhl founded in 1912 in Soho ( London), the first cabaret in London called The Cave of the Golden Calf which was designed by the Advantgardisten Percy Wyndham Lewis and Jacob Epstein artistic. She brought Strindbergstücke on stage, organized a reading of the Italian futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. 1914 after her sudden departure to America, the club was closed.

After the outbreak of the First World War, she moved to New York, where she lived from lecture tours, including through August Strindberg. Under the pseudonym Marie Eve, she wrote screenplays.

Works

• Strindberg och hans andra hustru, 2 volumes, Stockholm 1933-34 ( German language edition under the title " Dear, suffering and time: An unforgettable marriage," Goverts, Hamburg / Leipzig 1936)
• If no, no, August Strindberg and Frida Uhl: correspondence 1893-1902, evaluated, edited and translated by Friedrich Mayr book, Weitra 1993, ISBN 3-900878-91-9.
• As an audiobook: August Strindberg, Frida Uhl: The abyss that engulfed us. Setting a selection of the correspondence between August Strindberg and Frida Uhl. Kaleidophon Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810808-7-2.