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Baroness Ada von Maltzahn (May 14, 1854, Cznarków – May 10, 1922, Świnoujście) was a popular nineteenth century German novelist who primarily published as Ada von Gersdorff.

Ada von Maltzahn
Portrait (wood engraving)
Born
Ada von Knobloch

May 14, 1854
DiedMay 10, 1922
Other namesAda von Gersdorff

Biography


She was born Ada von Knobloch in 1854, the daughter of a local district administrator in modern-day Poland, but was then the province of Posen in West Prussia.[1]

She married Prussian Army captain Gero von Gersdorff, but the marriage dissolved quickly, they divorced, and she returned to her parents' house in East Prussia with their son.[1][2][3] In 1878, her father acquired an entailed estate in Sudnicken; he later became the Baron von Hausen-Aubier, but was more well-known as von Knobloch.[2]

She spent the next part of her life traveling widely in Germany and internationally.[3] While in Berlin, she took part in the court festivities of the last days of Kaiser Wilhelm I.[3] She then moved to a smaller estate of her father's at Krumteich near Trömpau in East Prussia.[3]

She married Baron Ludolf Hellmuth von Maltzahn in Berlin on May 19, 1894.[1][2][3] Her second husband died in 1904.[2] She continued to live in Berlin for many years.[2]


Career


Von Maltzahn was most famous for writing novels, novellas, and humor stories. Many of them included elements of romance as well. Her novels were popular enough to be acquired by many American libraries in the early twentieth century.[4]

In 1912 to 1913, she wrote the script for the German silent film Gerda Gerovius, produced by Berlin company Messter Film.[5][6] She had published the eponymous novel in 1910.[7] The film, which starred Elsa Bassermann and was directed by Hans Oberländer, was restricted to adult viewing by police decree in Berlin and Munich, per local censorship laws.[6][8]


Books


Note: “Roman,” which often forms part of the title or serves as a subtitle, means “novel” in German.


References


  1. Pataky, Sophie. "Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. 2. Band: M-Z. Berlin, 1898". Deutsches Text Archiv (in German). p. 13. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  2. Friedrichs, Elisabeth (2016-12-12). Die deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Repertorien zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Band 9 (in German). Springer-Verlag. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-476-03141-9.
  3. Brümmer, Franz (1913). "Lexikon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten vom Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Bd. 4. 6. Aufl. Leipzig, 1913". Deutsches Text Archiv (in German). Leipzig. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  4. San Francisco Public Library (1915). Monthly Bulletin. San Francisco. pp. lxxxiii.
  5. Lamprecht, Gerhard (1969-01-01). Compiled by Sarah Reed. "A List of Women in German and Austrian Silent Cinema (Reference, 1969)". Sophie Resources via Brigham Young University.
  6. "The German Early Cinema Database: Film Supply 1895-1920: Film: Gerda Gerovius". German Early Cinema Database (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  7. Library of Congress Copyright Office (1910). Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books. Part 1. Group 1. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 1105.
  8. "Gerda Gerovius". IMDB. Archived from the original on 2012-04-04. Retrieved May 14, 2021.

На других языках


- [en] Ada von Maltzahn

[ru] Мальцан, Ада фон

Баронесса Ада Мальцан (нем. Ada von Maltzahn; урождённая Кноблох[de]; 14 мая 1854, Чарнкув, Великопольское воеводство — 10 мая 1922[2], Свиноуйсьце, Свободное государство Пруссия) — немецкая писательница и сценаристка девятнадцатого века, которая в основном публиковалась как Ада фон Герсдорф, под фамилией своего первого мужа[3][4].



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