Isolde Kurz
Isolde Mary Clare Short ( born December 21, 1853 in Stuttgart, † April 6, 1944 in Tübingen) was a German writer and translator.
Life
Isolde was born the second of five children and the only daughter of the writer and librarian Hermann Kurz and his wife Marie Short, born Baroness von Brunnow short. Marie Short, who came from an old noble family, which shall include a Ururgroßnichte the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and great-granddaughter of his nephew, Colonel Heinrich Reinhard knights and noble things of Oetinger (1738 - 1796) was her daughter taught itself in Stuttgart Isolde lived five and a half years, to the family in the spring of 1859, after two moves within Stuttgart, after Oberesslingen moved. Your local childhood, she later described as idyllic, but not free from conflicts between the free-spirited life and parenting style of their parents and the down to earth views of the village population.
Some time after the death of her father in 1873 moved Isolde Kurz to Munich, where her brother Erwin lived as an art student, there to earn their livelihood with translations and language lessons. From their first fee they had at the old cemetery in Tübingen erect a marble monument to her father. A year later, she followed along with the mother and the youngest brother of an invitation of her brother Edgar to Italy. This had recently moved to Florence as a doctor and performed a practice. In Italy she associated with, among others, Adolf von Hildebrand, Hans von Marées, Arnold Böcklin and Jacob Burckhardt, read at the women's table of the Bibliotheca Nazionale Jacob Burckhardt's " Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy," wandered through with the teacher and artist Althofen the galleries and made plans to together to write a Cicerone. After the sudden death Althofens she formed from the material researched their " Florentine novels " which were laid in 1890 by Cotta. This was her third independent publication. In 1888, she had already published her first volume of poems and also 1890, Goschen in Stuttgart collected " fantasies and fairy tales " that were first published in magazines. In the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi, she met Eleonora Duse and know the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio.
After 1905 she lived with her mother, she used until her death in 1911, alternately in Munich and the seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi. In 1911, her childhood friend Ernst von Mohl returned as a widower from Russia and stood her up to his death in 1929 as a life companion to the side. Together they undertook in 1912 a trip to Greece. According to the literary critic Tilman Krause was short in the time of National Socialism little difficulty " to the " " tune in " new spirit. On the 50th birthday of the leader, she wrote a eulogy, from Joseph Goebbels hand she took on her ninetieth birthday highly satisfied the Goethe Medal contrary.
Isolde Kurz died in the night of 5 and 6 April 1944. She was buried in the town cemetery in Tübingen.
Awards and honors
Translations
- Ippolito Nievo: Memoirs of an octogenarian. German Ins transmitted by I. Short. 2 parts. Grunow, Leipzig 1877
- Prosper -Olivier Lissagaray: History of the Commune of 1871 Authorized German edition and completed by the author. . W. Bracke, Jr., Brunswick 1877
- Marchesa Colombi: An Ideal. Novel. Authorized processing after Italian by Isolde Kurz. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1885
- Giovanni Verga: your spouse. Novel. Authorized processing after Italian by Isolde Kurz. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1885