- Hedda Eulenberg
Hedda Eulenberg (
March 6 ,1876 –September 13 ,1960 ) was a Germantranslator .Biography
Eulenberg was born in
Meiderich . She was the daughter of Wilhelm Maase, a director for music.She passed her school-leaving exam (Abitur) in 1893 at the Luisenschule in
Düsseldorf . In 1897 she married the authorArthur Moeller van den Bruck inBerlin , whom she had known since her days at school in Düsseldorf. 1901 she met the poetHerbert Eulenberg in Berlin at the premiere of his play ‘Muenchhausen’. The same year Arthur Moeller van den Bruck fled toFrance for political and economical reasons.1901 J.C.C. Bruns published her ten volumes of the translations of
Edgar Allan Poe ’s works. 1903Reclam published her German translation of Germinal byEmile Zola . In 1904 she divorced from Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and married Herbert Eulenberg. In 1905 they moved toKaiserswerth near Düsseldorf, where Herbert Eulenberg worked as a dramaturge at the theatre underLuise Dumont . At her new home she began her first translations ofGuy de Maupassant and further works by Emil Zola. Her German translations were published the following year by J.C.C. Bruns, Minden, Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich, and other publishing houses. From 1908 until 1936 she translated works by Maupassant, Zola, andCharles Dickens . Her translations, the first in German, were published by Philip Reclam in Leipzig, C.C.G. Bruns in Minden, and Nymphenburger Verlagsanstalt in Munich. At the same time she published numerous newspaper articles, mostly aboutMonism . In 1936 theNazi Party started its persecution of Hedda and Herbert Eulenberg to destroy their economical and intellectual existence. Hedda could no longer find a German publisher who was prepared to publish her works. After 1945 she began to pick up her work again, which she had to stop in 1936. In 1954 her biography “Im Doppelglück von Kunst und Leben” was published. In 1956 she returned to her translations ofHenry Troyat ,Yvette Guilbert , andThomas Burke , all published by Droste Verlag. OnSeptember 13 ,1960 she died in Kaiserswerth in “Haus Freiheit” (house of freedom).Literary works
Im Doppelglück von Kunst und Leben. Düsseldorf: Die Faehre, [1952] .
Abgesang. Düsseldorf: Die Faehre, [1952]
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