Maria Stona

Maria Scholz ( born December 1, 1861 in Strebowitz, † March 30, 1944 ibid ), owner of Good and lock Strebowitz in Ostrava, philanthropist and writer under the pseudonym Mary Stona.

Life

Maria Scholz is a daughter of Joseph Stonawski, which in 1861 bought the estate and castle Strebowitz tenant farmers in years, and his wife Marie, nee Kosietz ( Koszyc ) from Bludowitz, Landkreis Teschen ( Cieszyn ) in Silesia. The first two syllables of her birth name Stonawski were her pseudonym Maria Stona.

Maria married in 1881, Dr. jur. Albert Scholz, a son of the entrepreneur Alois Scholz (1821-1883) Director of the huts of the Vítkovice Mining and Metallurgy Trade Union in Ostrava. The couple Maria and Albert Scholz lived for seven years from 1881 to 1888, in Chropin an der March in Moravia. In Chropin came on 16 August 1882, daughter Helene to the world, which was a sculptor and died as a married name Helene Scholz- Zelezny in Rome, Italy in 1974. She is the aunt of Eugenia Wasilewska.

The marriage with Albert Scholz was divorced in 1899. Maria married Stona likely second husband, the writer, editor and art critic Karl Kleinert Erasmus ( 1837-1933 ). In 1933 Maria Stona issued a tribute to his life: An old Austrian - Charles Erasmus Kleinert. His life and his works published by Adolf Drechsler, Opava in Moravia. In passages referring to a marriage with their subscription.

Literary circle at Castle Strebowitz in Ostrava

After the death of his father Joseph Stonawski took Mary Scholz, born Stonawski the goods Strebowitz and Martinau in Silesia, had the castle Strebowitz and remodel the surrounding park as their residence. At Castle Strebowitz in Ostrava Maria Stona was - to see how their guest books was - the center of a literary circle. To him were the writer Marie Baroness von Ebner -Eschenbach, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner, the writer Alexander Roda Roda, the physician and writer Karl Schönherr, writer and publicist Paul Keller, the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes and political figures. She promoted young artists, to which the Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurník belonged and made ​​trips among others Eastern Europe, Southern France and Spain.

Work as a writer

To her extensive literary heritage include travelogues, poetry books with home related, often sentimental poetry, short stories, novellas and novels. Maria Stona was one of the most important writers of her time. They drew its subjects with psychological empathy from the world around them, what went down when Russian troops of the Soviet Army at the end of World War II in 1945, Silesia and Moravia had occupied and lock Strebowitz was lost as a family residence.

Maria Stona, died in 1944, in their works, created the German, Czech and Polish-speaking people in the upper reaches of the Oder estuary of Oppa, the nearby industrial city of Ostrava and the administrative city of Opava in Moravia, with the eyes of a wealthy woman seen memory portal. The volumes of poetry were after the death of Mary Scholz, born Stonawski, translated by the writer Helena Salichová in the Czech language.

Works

  • The Book of Love, 1888, 3rd revised edition 1897., Anzengruber Verlag Wien, Berlin.
  • Love of a young woman, 3rd edition, Anzengruber Verlag Vienna and Berlin.
  • Sounding depths, new poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
  • Flames and floods, poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
  • King Eri, A song of love, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
  • People and paragraphia. Short stories, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin
  • Narrated and sung, short stories and poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
  • Ludwig Jakobowski in the light of life, Anzengruber Verlag Wien, Berlin.
  • The raven cry, novel of a divorce, in 1907.
  • The Woodlark and other light-hearted stories, Philipp Reclam Verlag 1910.
  • My village, short stories and sketches from Silesia, furrier Books Treasure No. 604
  • Small Doctor - A Child's Life, Leipzig Tower Publisher Albert Platzek 1918
  • The double fixed in place, in: Rur flowers, born in 1923, No. 12, leaves home for history. Supplement to Jülischen Kreisblatt, born in 1921 until 1924.
  • From Prague to Provence via Strasbourg, Verdun and Reims, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin 1922.
  • The beautiful Spain, a trip to 51 images AGV Verlag Berlin, without year ( 1942 to 1944 ) -
  • Before the fall, society novel.
  • Rachel, Roman, 2nd edition Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
  • O you fun world of women, Steyrermühl Verlag Wien, Tageblatt Library No. 76
  • The wild Wolhynierin, Roman from Ukraine, one based on the life story of the cousin Maria Stonas Wilhelmine Ladislawa Koszyc ( Kosietz ), daughter of Wenceslaus Koszyc in Zywiec ( Żywiec ) in Galicia, then a crown land of Austria -Hungary, Anzengruber Verlag, Wien and Leipzig, 1922.
  • A trip to Carpatho, Adolf Drechsler Publisher Opava 1936.
  • Narrating Heritage - East German elite storytelling, in page 27-52 Stona Maria: My mother ( Marie Stonavski, born Koszyc, 1890) Odertor - publisher of literature from the East sudetenland, Heidelberg 1961.
  • Village characters from the context of major Ostrava, selected, introduced and edited by Fritz Eichler, Odertor - publisher of literature from the Ostsudetenland, Heidelberg in 1962 with a dedication on the 100th birthday of Maria Stona (* 1861) and a portrait photograph of it.
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