Hedwig Lachmann

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

Hedwig Lachmann
Born	(1865-08-29)29 August 1865 Stolp, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	21 February 1918(1918-02-21) (aged 52) Krumbach, German Empire

Life and work

Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia 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 passed 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 an 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 1902

Collection of Poetry post. 1919

Translations

From English

Works from Edgar Allan Poe

Works from Rabindranath Tagore: The Post Office, The King of the Dark Chamber

From Hungarian

Hungarian Poems 1891

Works from Sándor Petőfi

From French

Oscar Wilde: Salome. This became the libretto for Richard Strauss's opera Salome.

Works from Honoré de Balzac

External links

• Works by Hedwig Lachmann at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Hedwig Lachmann at the Internet Archive
• Works by Hedwig Lachmann at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• German Tragedies: Robert Nichols Remembers