Hedwig Lachmann

Life and work

Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania 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 a famous 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

Oscar Wilde: Salome

Works from Edgar Allan Poe

Works from Rabindranath Tagore

From Hungarian

Hungarian Poems 1891

Works from Sándor Petőfi

From French

Works from Honoré de Balzac