Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz, actually Marie Luise baroness of Kaschnitz vineyard; born of Holzing - Berstett ( born January 31, 1901 in Karlsruhe, † October 10, 1974 in Rome) was a German writer.
Life
The daughter of Major General Max von Holzing - Berstett grew up in Potsdam and Berlin, was after high school in Weimar bookseller trained (1922-1924) and then worked in a Munich publisher and bookseller in Rome.
In 1925 she married the classical archaeologists Guido Kaschnitz by Weinberg, with whom she made numerous trips to France, Italy and Greece, and alternately in Rome, Königsberg ( Prussia), Marburg and Frankfurt am Main lived. From 1941 until her death she lived mostly in Frankfurt, where her husband had taken over the Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University. After the death of her husband in 1958 she moved temporarily back to the family estate in Bollschweil at Freiburg.
Her first novel, Love begins (1933 ), the Marie Luise Kaschnitz wrote on the occasion of a competition of the publisher Cassirer, followed stories, essays and poems, including death dance and poetry at the time (1947 ), which were all under the impression the experience of war, while in the following works future Music (1950 ) and the cycle Eternal City (1952 ) shows an increasing trend towards the lyrical ego with the present dialogue. In her later work essayistic records and autobiographical writings occupied a central position. According to Roman records Ponte Sant'Angelo (1955 ) published among other things, the House of Childhood (1956) and Is still there. New Prose (1970), in which the ego is increasingly the reality and identity in question.
Since the 1950s, Marie Luise Kaschnitz turned increasingly to the radio play. In 1955 she was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1960 and was a guest lecturer in poetry at the University of Frankfurt. She was also a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Academy for Language and Literature and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Marie Luise Kaschnitz was buried in Bollschweil, the location of the family seat, where she had a literary monument with description of a village ( 1966). At her longtime residence Wiesenau 8 in Frankfurt's Westend is a memorial plaque to her. Her estate is located in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar.
Works (selection)
- Love begins. Novel, Berlin 1933
- Elissa. Novel, Berlin 1936
- Greek myths. Prose, Hamburg 1943
- People and things 1945. Twelve essays. Heidelberg 1946
- Poems. Hamburg 1947
- Totentanz and poems at the time. Hamburg 1948 where:. Return to Frankfurt
- Adam and Eve (1949 )
- Future. Poems, Hamburg 1950
- Hiroshima ( 1951)
- The fat girl, and other stories. Krefeld 1952
- Eternal City. Rome poems. Krefeld 1952
- Ponte Sant'Angelo. Roman considerations. Hamburg 1955
- The House of Childhood. Autobiography, Hamburg 1956
- Long shadows. Narratives, Hamburg 1960
- Your silence - my voice. Poems 1958-1961. Hamburg 1962
- Radio plays. Hamburg 1962
- One of two (1962 )
- Where as I do. Records. Hamburg 1963
- Überallnie. Selected Poems 1928-1965. Hamburg 1965
- A Word On ( 1965)
- Distance calls. Narratives, Frankfurt am Main 1966
- Description of a village. Frankfurt 1966
- Popp and Mingel (1967 )
- A Poem (1967 )
- Days, days, years. Records. Frankfurt 1968
- The strange voice. Radio play, Munich 1969
- Is still there. New prose. Frankfurt 1970
- No spell. Poems. Frankfurt 1972
- Places. Records. Frankfurt 1973
- The old garden. A fairy tale. Dusseldorf 1977 ( posthumously published )