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| Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) was the leading German wo-man writer of her time. Her first novel, Reminiscences of Ludolf Ursleu the Younger (1893), anticipated Buddenbrooks in showing the decline of a mercantile family, one like her own. As a historian she wrote at length on Romanticism, Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, the Thirty Years' War, the 1848 Revolution, and the Holy Roman Empire. She wrote novels such as The Last Summer and The Deruga Case, and religious works, stories, and poetry. She received seven Nobel Prize nominations between 1928 and 1946. She was the first woman to receive the Goethe Prize, in 1931, and the only woman writer elected to the literary senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts, from which she resigned in 1933, defying the call for total subservience and denouncing the Nazis' brutal methods, slanders, and antisemitism as 'un-German'. She remained in Germany and was in Jena when the town was bombed. In 1947 she presided at the all-German Writers' Congress in Frankfurt am Main. Autumn Fire (1944) is almost her last work. | ||
Book available from Poetry Salzburg: Ricarda Huch. Autumn Fire, 1 November 2024. 82 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-84-8 (= PSTS 1) Send an e-mail to order this book |
