Английская Википедия:Elise Henle

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Elise (Sara) Henle Levi (10 August 1832, Munich – 18 August 1892, Frankfurt am Main) was a German Jewish writer, dramatist, and poet. She was the author of numerous dramatic comedies, opera libretti, poems, and cookbooks.

Biography

Elise Henle was born in Munich, Bavaria into a wealthy Jewish court factor family, the fifth of six children of Therese (Шаблон:Nee) and Benedict (Baruch) Henle.Шаблон:R Her father had made a name for himself as the author of geographical and horological reference books.Шаблон:R He was the son of activist Шаблон:Ill and grandson of Rabbi Шаблон:Ill, and her mother the sister of poet Henriette Ottenheimer.Шаблон:R Her brother Шаблон:Ill would become a prominent politician and lawyer of the Bavarian royal family.Шаблон:R She was educated at the Aschersche Mädcheninstitut boarding school in Munich.Шаблон:R

After her marriage in July 1853 to jewellery manufacturer Leopold Levi,Шаблон:R Henle settled in Esslingen, Württemberg, where her house became the rendezvous of a distinguished society circle.Шаблон:R Later, when her husband's company went bankrupt in 1881, she moved to Munich to live with her daughter.Шаблон:R In 1889 she relocated to her widowed sister's home in Frankfurt am Main,Шаблон:R where she died three years later. She was buried in the Frankfurt Jewish Cemetery in a funeral officiated by Rabbi Rudolf Reuben Plaut.Шаблон:RШаблон:R

Work

Elise Henle's first literary publication was the satirical poem Hut ab!, written in 1867 in response to an anti-Semitic statement by a judicial officer.Шаблон:R it was followed by the sketch Beim Volkfest (1869), the novella Das Zweite Jägerbataillon (1869), and the narrative Die Wacht am Rhein (1870).

She entered the dramatic field successfully with the political comedy Der Zweite September, which was soon followed by the drama Percy (a free adaptation of Philipp Galen) and the libretto of Шаблон:Ill's romantic-comic opera Manon, oder Schloß de l'Orme, based on Abbé Prévost's Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.Шаблон:R Her comedies Durch die Intendanz, Die Wiener in Stuttgart, Aus Göthes lustigen Tagen, Der Erbonkel, and Liebesqualen met with marked success in several German and Austrian theatres.Шаблон:RШаблон:R The latter was performed at the Stadttheater in Altona on 27 November 1881.Шаблон:R She also wrote the text of Murillo, an opera in three acts with music by Шаблон:Ill, first performed at the Mannheim National Theatre in 1887.Шаблон:R

Near the end of her life, Henle published two popular Swabian German cookbooks in verse, Guat is's (1888) and So mag i's (1892, reprinted 1988).Шаблон:R

Partial bibliography

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Plaque in tribute to Elise Henle at Neckarstraße 33 in Esslingen, where she lived from 1868 to 1881.

References

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