Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford OBE ( born March 16, 1911 in Berlin, † 17 February 2006 in London), born Baroness Sybille Aleid Elsa Schoenebeck, was a German - British journalist and writer.

Life

Sybille Bedford grew up in Germany, England, Italy and France. Her father was the retired lieutenant colonel and art collector Baron Maximilian von Schoenebeck ( 1863-1925 ). With him on Castle Feldkirch Sybille lived after the separation of their parents in 1918 in relative poverty in the midst of the art collection of her father. In 1921 she moved at the request of their mother, Elizabeth Bernhardt ( 1883-1937 ) - a daughter of wealthy Hamburg merchants - to Sanary -sur- Mer on the Cote d' Azur, then a small fishing village. The mother 's second marriage was an Italian architecture students. There begins Bedford's lifelong friendship with Aldous Huxley and his second wife, Mary, an experience that they forty years later crowned with an acclaimed two-volume biography of Huxley and has processed in a literary favorite of the gods. 1925 her father dies in a hospital in Freiburg appendicitis, his art collection will be auctioned in 1927 in Freiburg.

Her novels and travel narratives reflect the rich and varied life history of their author. In addition, Sybille Bedford worked as a court reporter for magazines such as Esquire and Life. She lived until her death in London. Last appeared under the title Quicksands her autobiography. She was friends with Klaus and Erika Mann and Aldous Huxley, who in 1935 her sham marriage with an English homosexual, Walter ( " Terry " ) Bedford, arranged for them by the Sybille British citizenship. She left France before the German invasion of 1940 in the direction of California / USA, also with the support of Huxley's, and spent the time until the end of the Second World War. Then they traveled through Mexico, a time she described in A Visit to Don Ottavio ( German Visiting Don Ottavio ).

Works

  • Aldous Huxley's new book. In: The Collection. Literary Monthly d under patronage of André Gide, Aldous Huxley, Heinrich Mann. Klaus Mann (eds.). 1 Born in 1934, No. IX, pp. 482-488. Amsterdam, Querido, 1934. Nachdr d ed Amsterdam, Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-8077-0222-9
  • The Sudden View: A Mexican Journey, also published as A Visit to Don Octavio. A Traveller's Tale From Mexico, 1953
  • A legacy. A Novel, 1956
  • The Best We Can Do: The Trial of Dr Adams, 1958
  • The Faces of Justice: A Traveller's report, 1961
  • A Favourite of the Gods, 1963
  • A Compass Error 1968
  • Aldous Huxley. A Biography, 1973
  • Jigsaw. An unsentimental Education, 1989
  • As It Was: Pleasures, Landscapes and Justice, 1990 ( re-release as Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tales from Europe)
  • Quicksands. A Memoir, 2005

Works in German translation

  • The case of John Bodkin Adams. A report, 1960
  • Five Faces of justice. Justice in England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, 1964
  • The legate, in 1964 and 1988
  • A Visit to Don Otavio. A Mexican Travel, 1967
  • Off Course, 1969
  • A favorite of the gods, in 1965 and 1968
  • Time shadows. A biographical novel, 1992 ISBN 3-8052-0503-1
  • A Legacy, 2003 ISBN 3-8218-4519-8 ( New Translation of The legate, in 1993 as The Legacy )
  • A favorite of the gods, 2005 ISBN 3-86555-021-5 ( re-translation )
  • Quicksand. Memories of a European woman, 2006 ISBN 3-86555-030-4
  • A false sense of summer, 2006 ISBN 3-86555-028-2 ( New Translation of price deviation )
  • A Visit to Don Otavio. A Mexican Travel, 2007 ISBN 978-3-86555-038-5 ( new translation )
  • Preferably to the south. Travelling in Europe, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86555-050-7
  • La vie de château. A wine tasting in Bordeaux, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86555-056-9 (Chapter from prefer to south)
  • Return to Sanary. A youth novel, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86555-062-0 ( recompilation from time shadows)
  • Hunting a man about town. The process Dr. Ward. A court report, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8296-0543-4 ( from the estate )

Awards

Bibliography

  • Martin Mauthner: German Writers in French Exile, 1933-1940, Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2007, ( ISBN: 978 0 85303 540 4).
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