Draft:Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld

1885

Ida von Düringsfeld (12 November 1815 Militsch , Lower Silesia - 25 October 1876 Stuttgart ) was a German writer. At the age of 15 she published poems and after her move to Dresden in 1835 she also wrote short stories and novels. She wrote numerous novels and travelogues that were widely read in her time.

In 1845, she married Otto Freiherr von Reinsberg, becoming Baroness von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld.

Life

In 1835, at the age of 19, she published a large collection of poems under the name Thekla . she moved to Dresden . There she devoted herself to learning English and further developed her musical talent through singing lessons. There she also met the poet Christoph August Tiedge and the painter Moritz Retzsch , both of whom had a significant influence on her poetic and artistic development. Encouraged in many ways in this way, she used her studies of Spanish literature to write epic poems, which appeared in 1838 under the name " The Star of Andalusia ", and contain a cycle of romances based on material from Spanish and Arabic history. Probably less on her own initiative than on the advice of those around her, Ida von Düringsfeld published a series of short stories and novels between 1842 and 1845, the first of which, " Schloß Goczyn. Aus den Papieren einer Dame von Stande ", published anonymously in 1841, established her reputation as a poet.

Other of her early novels followed: Sketches from the Gentle World , 6 volumes (1842–46), Marie , In der Heimat (1843), Haraldsburg , Magdalene (1844), Hugo , Graf Chala (1845) and Hedwig . Critics accused her of these novels being based less on her own independent invention than on a conscious or unconscious imitation of the poet Ida Hahn-Hahn and of imitating objects and ideas, as well as the poet's language taken from aristocratic circles.

On October 20, 1845, she was married to the linguist and cultural researcher Otto Freiherr von Reinsberg (1823–1876), whom she accompanied on his extensive travels through Bohemia , Italy , Dalmatia , Belgium and Switzerland . She wrote cultural-historical novels (including Margarete von Valois , 1847) and short stories. She also became known as a translator of Slavic and Italian folk songs . With her husband, she had two children, the actor Marco Mechitar von Reinsberg (* July 31, 1846 in Venice ; Manhattan , New York ), who, after a brief career in the military, became an actor against his parents' wishes and emigrated to America, and Zora Dolores (* July 15, 1853 in Ragusa ), who died in childhood.

The joint literary work had an extremely positive influence on both of them, in that Reinsberg received a more ideal boost from the poetic talent of his partner, while Ida von Düringsfeld received a more mature experience from his scientific method and the travels she undertook with him, and a geographical and historical background for the characters and actions she described.