Wilhelmine von Hillern
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Wilhelmine von Hillern (11 March 1836 Munich – 15 December 1916 Hohenaschau) was a German actress and novelist.
Biography
She was the daughter of the novelist
Gotha (1854), and married the prominent jurist von Hillern at Freiburg im Breisgau in 1857. Her husband died 8 December 1882. After that, she lived chiefly at Oberammergau and Tutzing
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Her principal novels and short stories were produced during the 1860s and 1870s. One of them, Höher als die Kirche (Higher Than the Church; a tale of
bluestockings, Berlin 1869), Die Geier-Wally (The Vulture Maiden, Berlin 1875), Und sie kommt doch (The Hour Will Come, Berlin 1879), and Ein Blick ins Weite (Black Forest sketches, 1897). One of her novels, Only a Girl, was translated into English by Annis Lee Wister
in 1870.
Von Hillern's Die Geyer-Wally became the subject for the Italian composer Alfredo Catalani's last and most successful opera.
The memoirs and biographies of Sabine Baring-Gould contain firsthand descriptions of von Hillern.
References
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- Works by Wilhelmine von Hillern at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Wilhelmine von Hillern at Internet Archive
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