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Hedwig Lachmann

German author, translator and poet (1865-1918)

Hedwig Lachmann (29 August 1865 – 21 February 1918) was a German author, translator and poet.

Contents

  • 1 Life and work
  • 2 Works
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Life and work

Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania in 1865, to a Jewish family, and was the daughter of a cantor, Isaak Lachmann. She spent her childhood in Stolp and a subsequent seven years in Hürben (Swabia). At the age of 15, she p*ed exams in Augsburg to become a language teacher. Two years later she became a governess in England.

From 1899 until 1917 she belonged to both Friedrichshagener and Pankower poetry societies.

She met her future husband, Gustav Landauer, in 1899 at Richard Dehmel's house. One of their grandchildren, Mike Nichols, grew up to be a famous American television, stage and film director, writer, and producer. She died in Krumbach, Swabia, a very early fatality of the 1918 flu pandemic.

Works

Poetry

Im Bilde 1902Collection of Poetry post. 1919

Translations

From EnglishOscar Wilde: Salome. This became the libretto for Richard Strauss's opera Salome.Works from Edgar Allan PoeWorks from Rabindranath Tagore: The Post Office, The King of the Dark ChamberFrom HungarianHungarian Poems 1891Works from Sándor PetőfiFrom FrenchWorks from Honoré de Balzac

References

    External links

    Hedwig Lachmannat Wikipedia's sister projects
    • Media from Commons
    • Quotations from Wikiquote
    • Texts from Wikisource
    • Data from Wikidata
    • Works by Hedwig Lachmann at Project Gutenberg
    • Works by or about Hedwig Lachmann at Internet Archive
    • Works by Hedwig Lachmann at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
    • German Tragedies: Robert Nichols Remembers