Sylvia von Harden

Sylvia von Harden ( born March 28, 1894 in Hamburg, † June 4, 1963 in Croxley Green ( Rickmansworth / Hertfordshire); actually: Sylvia von Halle, 1922: Sylvia Lehr) was a German poet and journalist.

A certain notoriety as an example of the Neue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix became 'Portrait of journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926 ), which is located in the Modern Centre Pompidou in Paris at the Musée National d'Art.

Life

Sylvia was the ninth of eleven children of the Hamburg chief clerk of Benjamin Hall family. She attended a school in Berlin until 1912, and then remained until 1915, at her parents' house, the "bourgeois atmosphere " but they did not want to endure. By 1921, she worked for the publisher Rauscher in Zurich, her partner was in this time of frühexpressionistische poet Ferdinand Hardekopf. In 1922, she married Felix teaching.

As a journalist she worked for the Berliner Tageblatt, the Berliner Volks -Zeitung and the Prague press.

In 1933 she emigrated via Switzerland and Italy to England. In later years, she wrote book reviews and articles for newspapers in England and Germany ( Frankfurter Rundschau).

Works

• Zus m. Leo Scherpenbach ( eds. ): The box of books: Monthly Journal of Literature, graphics and book review. Munich: Bachmair 1919-1921 (reprint: Nendeln / Liechtenstein: Kraus 1977)

• Kinky cities in 1920
• Robespierre: A short story. [ 1924 ]
• The Italian gondola: Poetry 1927
• The Lighthouse Girl Longstone. 1958 ( youth book series Silver Star # 74 )