Maria Stona
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Maria Stona; Marie Scholz; born Stonawski (1861–1944) was a Silesia
n German
writer and poet.
She drew into her circles many noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as Georg Brandes
, Georges Clemenceau
, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig
, being among her guests in her home the Chateau of Třebovice http://trebovice.webzdarma.cz/o_trebovicich/o_trebovicich.htm (Strzebowitz).
In Třebovice she led artistic salon.
She corresponded regularly with Georg Brandes from 1899 to his death 1927.
Her daughter was Helen Zelezny-Scholz
, sculptor.
Maria Stona died in 1944, during the World War II. In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia
by the Soviet Red Army
her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating. In 1958 was totally demolished.
Some of her books are available at The Royal Library in Copenhagen where some of her letters may also be found in "Georg Brandes Arkivet"
. She used the first two syllables of her birth name, Stonawski, as her pseudonym Maria Stona.
Maria married in 1881, Dr. jur. Albert Scholz, a son of Alois Scholz (1821–1883) Director of the steel works of Witkowitz
mining and metallurgical trade union in Moravia-Ostrava. The couple Maria and Albert Scholz lived seven years, from 1881 to 1888, in Chropyně
in Moravia
. In Chropin on 16 August 1882 the daughter Helen Zelezny-Scholz
came to the world. She was a sculptor and as wedded Zelezny-Scholz she lived in Rome
in Italy
where she died in 1974.
The marriage to Albert Scholz lasted until 1899. Maria Stona most likely had a second marriage to the writer, editor and art critic Charles Erasmus Kleinert (1837–1933). In 1933, Maria Stona issued a tribute to his life: An Old Austrian - Charles Erasmus Kleinert. His life and his works were published by Adolf Drechsler, Opava
in Moravia.
, the Nobel Peace Prize
Bertha von Suttner
, writer Subhash Chandra Bose
doctor and writer Karl Schönherr
, the writer and journalist Paul Keller, the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes
, and personalities of political life. She encouraged young artists who belonged to which the Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurník
and others traveled for Eastern Europe
, Southern France
and Spain
.
Her extensive literary heritage, included travelogues, poetry, often sentimental, short stories, novellas and novels. Maria Stona was one of the most important women writers of her time. They drew their psychological empathy from the surrounding world, as Russian troops had occupied Moravia and Silesia in 1945 and Castle Strebowitz was lost as a family residence.
Maria Stona who died in 1944, created her works in German. The volumes of poetry have been translated after her death by the novelist Helen Salichová into the Czech language.
Silesia
Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
n German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
writer and poet.
She drew into her circles many noticeable persons, world-famous artists, politicians and writers such as Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture...
, Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...
, Berta von Suttner, Flinders Petrie, Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.- Biography :...
, being among her guests in her home the Chateau of Třebovice http://trebovice.webzdarma.cz/o_trebovicich/o_trebovicich.htm (Strzebowitz).
In Třebovice she led artistic salon.
She corresponded regularly with Georg Brandes from 1899 to his death 1927.
Her daughter was Helen Zelezny-Scholz
Helen Zelezny-Scholz
Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz or Helene Scholzová-Železná , was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor....
, sculptor.
Maria Stona died in 1944, during the World War II. In the course of the liberation of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
by the Soviet Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
her chateau was damaged and subsequently was deteriorating. In 1958 was totally demolished.
Some of her books are available at The Royal Library in Copenhagen where some of her letters may also be found in "Georg Brandes Arkivet"
Life
Maria Scholz is a daughter of Joseph Stonawski, who in 1861 bought the Castle Strebowitz, and his wife Marie Kosietz (Kosiec) from Bludowitz in Cieszyn SilesiaCieszyn Silesia
Cieszyn Silesia or Těšín Silesia or Teschen Silesia is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered around the towns of Cieszyn and Český Těšín and bisected by the Olza River. Since 1920 it has been divided between Poland and Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic...
. She used the first two syllables of her birth name, Stonawski, as her pseudonym Maria Stona.
Maria married in 1881, Dr. jur. Albert Scholz, a son of Alois Scholz (1821–1883) Director of the steel works of Witkowitz
Vítkovice (Ostrava)
Vítkovice is an administrative district of the city of Ostrava, capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. Situated on the left bank of the Ostravice River in the Moravian part of the city, Vítkovice was a town in its own right until its incorporation in 1924.-History:The...
mining and metallurgical trade union in Moravia-Ostrava. The couple Maria and Albert Scholz lived seven years, from 1881 to 1888, in Chropyně
Chropyne
Chropyně is a town in the Zlín Region, Czech Republic.-External links:*...
in Moravia
Moravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
. In Chropin on 16 August 1882 the daughter Helen Zelezny-Scholz
Helen Zelezny-Scholz
Helen Zelezny, also known in Europe as Helene Zelezny-Scholz or Helene Scholzová-Železná , was a Czech born sculptor and architectural sculptor....
came to the world. She was a sculptor and as wedded Zelezny-Scholz she lived in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
where she died in 1974.
The marriage to Albert Scholz lasted until 1899. Maria Stona most likely had a second marriage to the writer, editor and art critic Charles Erasmus Kleinert (1837–1933). In 1933, Maria Stona issued a tribute to his life: An Old Austrian - Charles Erasmus Kleinert. His life and his works were published by Adolf Drechsler, Opava
Opava
Opava is a city in the northern Czech Republic on the river Opava, located to the north-west of Ostrava. The historical capital of Czech Silesia, Opava is now in the Moravian-Silesian Region and has a population of 59,843 as of January 1, 2005....
in Moravia.
Literary circles at the Castle Strebowitz
After the death of his father, Joseph took Maria Stonawski Scholz to Strebowitz Martinau and in northern Moravia, where the Strebowitz Castle and the surrounding park was their residence. At Castle Strebowitz Maria Stona was the center of a literary circle. To him, the writer Baroness Marie von Ebner-EschenbachMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.She was born at the castle of Dubský...
, the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.-Biography:Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal,...
, writer Subhash Chandra Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose known by name Netaji was an Indian revolutionary who led an Indian national political and military force against Britain and the Western powers during World War II. Bose was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in...
doctor and writer Karl Schönherr
Karl Schönherr
Karl Schönherr was an Austrian writer of Austrian Heimat themes.-Biography:Schönherr was born in Axams, near Innsbruck , to Joseph and Marie Suitner Schönherr. He began studying philosophy in Innsbruck, then switched to medicine in Vienna, becoming a doctor in 1896. He worked in a hospital in St...
, the writer and journalist Paul Keller, the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture...
, and personalities of political life. She encouraged young artists who belonged to which the Czech pianist and composer Ilja Hurník
Ilja Hurník
Ilja Hurník is a contemporary Czech composer and essayist. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz.His 1953 sonata da camera, for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord, has been recorded on...
and others traveled for Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, Southern France
Southern France
Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi is defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy...
and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
Her extensive literary heritage, included travelogues, poetry, often sentimental, short stories, novellas and novels. Maria Stona was one of the most important women writers of her time. They drew their psychological empathy from the surrounding world, as Russian troops had occupied Moravia and Silesia in 1945 and Castle Strebowitz was lost as a family residence.
Maria Stona who died in 1944, created her works in German. The volumes of poetry have been translated after her death by the novelist Helen Salichová into the Czech language.
Works
- Mein lachendes Buch
- Ein Alt - Österreicher. Karl Erasmus Kleinert. Sein Leben und seine Werke
- Neue Gedichte
- Das Buch der Liebe, 1888, 3rd expanded edition 1897, Anzengruber Verlag Wien, Berlin.
- Liebe einer jungen Frau, 3rd edition, Anzengruber Verlag Wien und Berlin.
- Klingende Tiefen, New Poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
- Flammen und Fluten, Poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
- König Eri, Ein Lied der Liebe, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
- Menschen und Paragraphie. Stories, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin
- Erzählt und gesungen, Stories and Poems, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
- Ludwig Jakobowski im Licht des Lebens, Anzengruber Verlag Wien, Berlin.
- Der Rabenschrei, novel of divorce, 1907.
- Die Heidelerche und andere heitere Geschichten, Philipp Reclam Verlag 1910.
- Mein Dorf, short stories and sketches from Silesia, Kürschners Bücherschatz Nr. 604.
- Klein Doktor – Ein Kinderleben, Leipzig Turmverlag Albert Platzek 1918
- Das Doppelfest im Ort, in: Rur-Blumen, Jahrgang 1923, Nr. 12, Blätter für Heimatgeschichte. Beilage zum Jülischen Kreisblatt, Jahrgang 1921 bis 1924.
- Von Prag in die Provence über Strassburg, Verdun und Reims, Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin 1922.
- Das schöne Spanien, a journey in 51 images, AGV Verlag Berlin, ohne Jahr ( 1942 bis 1944)-
- Vor dem Sturz, social novel.
- Rachel, Roman, 2nd Reprint. Anzengruber Verlag Wien Berlin.
- O du spaßige Welt der Frauen, Steyrermühl Verlag Wien, Tagblatt Bibliothek Nr. 76.
- Die wilde Wolhynierin, Roman from Ukraine, a reference to the life story of the cousin Maria Stonas Wilhelmina Ladislawa Koszyce (Kosietz), daughter of Wenceslaus Koszyce in Zywiec (Saybusch) in Galicia, then a crown land of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, Anzengruber Verlag, Vienna and Leipzig, 1922.
- Eine Fahrt nach Karpathorußlans, Adolf Drechsler Verlag Troppau 1936.
- Erzähltes Erbe – selection of East German narrative, to page 27 to 52 Stona Maria: My mother (Marie Stonavski née Koszyce, † 1890) Odertor-publisher of literature from Eastern Sudetenland, Heidelberg 1961st.
- Dorfgestalten aus dem Vorfeld von Groß-Ostrau, ausgewählt, introduced and edited by Fritz Eichler, Odertor-publisher of literature from the Eastern Sudetenland, Heidelberg in 1962 with a dedication of the 100th birthday of Maria Stona (* 1861) and a portrait photograph of her.
Literature
- Biographical Dictionary published on the history of the Bohemian Lands, Volume III (N - Sch) on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum by Ferdinand Seibt, Hans Lemberg, Helmut Slapnicka, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, p. 744th
- Austrian Bibiographisches Lexicon, 11 with references to Mary Stona.
- Josef Mühlberger: History of German Literature in Bohemia from 1900 to 1939, Volume 1
- John NaglJohn NaglJohn A. Nagl is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army who is regarded as an influential expert in counterinsurgency....
, Jakob Zeidler, Edward Castle: German-Austrian literary history - A handbook on the history of German literature in Austria-Hungary, Volume 3 and 4 - Franz Brümmer: Encyclopedia of German poets and prose writers from the early 19th century to the present, Reclam, 1913.