Helene Böhlau

Helene Böhlau, married. al Raschid Bey, ( born November 22, 1856 in Weimar, † March 26, 1940 in Augsburg) was a German writer.

Life

Helene Böhlau was the daughter of the Weimar publishing bookseller Böhlau Hermann and his wife Therese, née Thon. She enjoyed a careful private education. In order to broaden their intellectual horizons, they were sent on trips abroad. On such in the Orient, she met the architect and scholar Frederick Arnd know and love. This in order to marry Helene as a second wife can converted from Judaism to Islam and changed his name to Omar al Raschid Bey. Her father forbade her then the house. He met her while later, their fame but he has not seen.

After the wedding in 1886, the couple lived for a year in Constantinople Opel, then in Munich. Helene Böhlau continued to publish under her birth name, sometimes with the addition of " woman -al-Raschid Bey ". To her friends and the writer and art critic Anna Spier, the wife of the politician and scholar Samuel Spier, the Helene Böhlau 1903 enthusiastic commemorate belonged " our Green Summer! " Dedicated to her " summer book Altweimarische stories ". After the death of her husband in 1911 Helene Böhlau lived in Ingolstadt, Munich, Widdersberg and Augsburg. Your 1895 born son Omar Hermann formed in 1915 as a private in Munich recruits, including Victor Klemperer.

Helene Böhlau died in 1940 and found their final resting place in the cemetery at Aries mountain in located at the church family grave ( inscription " Helene Böhlau al Raschid Bey ").

Services

Helene Böhlau among the most important writers in their time. She was awarded the Prize of the German Schiller Foundation. Max Lesser called it in 1901 along with Gerhart Hauptmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Peter Altenberg most important German -language writer of our time. In 1882 she published novels and short stories. Her first novel was published in 1888, " Pure heart guilty." The work Helene Böhlaus includes both ambitious art and literature use. Her early, influenced by naturalism feminist novels " The Marshalling Yard " (1896 ), "The right of the Mother" (1896) and " half- animal " ( 1899) were considered by his contemporaries and overall positive reviewed (though occasionally a train to ' has been criticized for ' of genius, strange ). A larger crowd was Helene Böhlau known primarily as the author of "Rats girl stories " (1888; further volumes in 1897, 1905 and 1923) and various " Altweimarischer stories " ( 1897ff. ).

Works

All works Böhlaus were frequently reprinted, often in varying combinations

  • Novels. 1882 ( new edition under the title Salin Kaliske 1902; Content:. Under the Spell of death; Salin Kaliske; Maleen )
  • The beautiful Valentin. The old folks. Two novellas. 1886
  • Pure heart guilty. Novel. 1888
  • Heart delusion. Novel. 1888
  • Rath girl stories. 1888
  • In the hawser of art and other stories. 1889
  • In fresh water. Novel. 2 vols 1891
  • The marshalling yard. Novel. 1896 - New ed. by Henriette Herwig, Turmhut, Mellrichstadt 2004, ISBN 3-936084-44-0
  • The mother's right. Novel. 1896
  • Altweimarische love and marriage stories. 1897
  • Council girl and Altweimarische stories. 1897
  • In ancient Rödchen at Weimar. The ehrbußliche females. Two novellas. 1897
  • The playful people. In confectioners apprentice Midsummer Night. Two novellas. 1897
  • Playful people. Novel. 1898
  • Desperate honeymoon. Novels. 1898
  • Glory, Glory Hallelujah. Novel. 1898
  • The screamer stock. Novel. 1898
  • Half animal! Novel. 1899th New ed. by Henriette Herwig, Turmhut, Mellrichstadt 2004, ISBN 3-936084-42-4
  • The Philistines are upon you! Spectacle. 1900
  • Summer book. Altweimarische stories. 1903
  • The crystal ball. A Altweimarische history. 1903
  • Summer soul. Mother longing. Two novellas. 1904
  • The Council girls run a duke 's arms. 1905
  • The "house of flame. " Novel. 1907
  • Kußwirkungen. Narratives. 1907 (Excerpt from Council girl and Altweimarische stories )
  • Isebies. The story of a life. Novel. 1911
  • Gudrun. 1913
  • The spicy dog. Novel. 1916
  • A stupid prank. 1919
  • In the garden of Mrs. Maria stream. Novel. 1922
  • The Council girl go to a haunted body. Narratives. 1923 ( Excerpt from Council girl and Altweimarische stories )
  • The reckless marriage Dearest: A love tangle. Novel. 1925
  • The small Goethe mother. Novel. 1928
  • Kristine. Novel. 1929
  • Evil honeymoon. Novel. 1929
  • A gentle soul. Novel. 1930
  • As the granddaughter of the Council girl became the bluestocking, in: Council girl and Altweimarische stories. Altweimarische love and marriage stories. German Book Club nd, 1930, pp. 128-166; first in council girl and Altweimarische stories. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1897, 1899
  • Hair dryer. Novel. 1931
  • Haunting in Alt -Weimar. Narratives. 1935 (Excerpt from Council girl and Altweimarische stories )
  • The three mistresses. Novel. 1937
  • Gold bird. Narratives. 1939
  • Youth in Goethe's day. 1939
  • Works. 9 vols, 1929
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