Ilse von Stach

Ilse von Stach Stach actually Goltz home ( born February 17, 1879 House Pröbsting in Borken, † August 22 1941 in Münster) was a German writer.

Life

Ilse von Stach was the daughter of the Protestant manor owner Baron Georg Stach v. Goltz home and his wife Margaret, née von Barby. After the early death of her mother, she grew up with relatives in Aurich and in a convent in Altenburg. In Berlin, she trained as a teacher. After two failed marriages, the second in 1902 with the Polar driver Theodor Lerner, with whom she had two sons ( Klaus and Thomas ), she moved to Rome in 1905 and sat critically with their Protestant faith. In 1908 she converted to Catholicism. In the same year, she met her third husband, the art critic Martin Wackernagel know. They married in 1912 and first settled in Planegg, then in Leipzig down. From the marriage, Peter (1913-1958) and Maria Elisabeth went bold (* 1919). Since 1921, they lived in Münster. At the University and Regional Library Münster also written documents pertaining to Ilse von Stach is preserved.

Works

Ilse von Stach wrote plays, novels, stories and poetry. Your still best-known work, the Christmas tale The Christ- Elflein, originated in 1906 under the literary influence of Gerhart Hauptmann. It was set to music in the same year of the composers Hans Pfitzner and premiered in Munich.

  • Who can ensure that its Spring breezes weh'n ( poems, 1898)
  • The Christ- Elflein ( Christmas story, 1906)
  • The Holy Nepomuk ( Drama, 1909)
  • The emissaries of Voghera (novel, 1910)
  • Missa poetica ( poems, 1912)
  • The Confession ( short story, 1913)
  • House Elder Began (novel, 1915)
  • Requiem ( poems, 1917)
  • Genesius ( Tragedy, 1919)
  • Tharsicius ( Festival, 1921)
  • Woe to him who has no home (novel, 1921; 1931 edition under the title Non serviam )
  • Griselda ( Drama, 1921)
  • Melusine ( Drama, 1922)
  • Peter ( Comedy, 1924)
  • The Rosary ( poems, 1929)
  • The women of Corinth ( dialogue, 1929)
  • The Peter blessing. Memories and Confessions (1940 )
  • As the storm moves the time ( poems, 1948)

Secondary literature

  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia, KG Saur, Munich, 1998, p 426, ISBN 3-598-23169-5
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