Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
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Author:

Gammel, Irene, 1959-

Title:
Die dada Baroness : das wilde Leben der Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven / Irene Gammel ; aus dem Amerikanischen von Claudia Kotte, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Autorin, und mit einem Nachwort von Gisela Freytag v. Loringhoven ; [with a "Frontispiz"].

Edition:
2. Aufl. der [1.] deutschen Ausgabe [von 2003]. --

Published:
Berlin : edition ebersbach, 2005.

Description:
256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. --

Note:
Verso of t.p.: "Die Realisierung des Begleitbandes zur Ausstellung wurde durch den Hauptstadtkulturfonds gefordert." -- This book was donated to RBR in acknowledgement for having sent to Berlin several titles by FPG (Greve/Grove), Else's 2nd husband until 1911, from its UManitoba collections. --
A Brochure (16p.) was inserted, describing this biggest FrL exhibition to date in great detail: "Die dada Baroness, 23. April 2005 -8. Mai 2005, Literaturhaus Berlin." -- FrL biography, p.1-2. -- Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Stucke: Vitrine 1 ... 18, pp. 2-16 [often, supplemented by ills. or texts mounted on the walls, "... an der Wand"]. -- Leihgeberverzeichnis, p.17, which mentions both the UM's FPG & FrL collections, & Gaby Divay [for her contribution of the 1904/5 "Fanny Essler" poems]. -- Die dada Baroness: Der Audioguide [30 pieces / Sprecher, Sabine Falkenberg]. -- (Kept in the book which functiones a an exhibition catalogue.].
Translation of "Baroness Elsa: gender, dada, and everyday modernity, a cultural biography", Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 2002, xxv, 535 p. -- "... fur die deutsche Ausgabe von der Autorin neu bearbeitet." --
This 2nd ed., 2005, is a paperback, held in mostly red & beige, with Else posing on cover. On back cover: excerpts of critical acclaim of the 2002 Eng. orig. book by Yoko ONo, Marina Abramovic, & The NY Times, & Berliner Zeitung. ISBN ends correctly in "6", not "7"as in preliminaries. --
(1st ed., 2003,Hardcover, red & mostly beige, with same coloured vertical stripes as lining paper). --
Irene Gammel's somewhat shortened German biography of FrL includes much material concerning Else's 2nd husband Felix Paul Greve (FPG) whose comprehensive Canadian collection was acquired by the University of Manitoba in the early 19060s. -- Causing a scandal vby "eloping" to Palermo in late Jan. 1903 (taking Else's distaught 1st husband A. Endell along as far as Naples), & living in Swiss & French Exile after Greve's prison term for fraud in 1904/4, the two were married in August 1907 the "Standesamt in Berlin-Wilmersdorf" (p.85 & n.32, p.230, official notification to Gisi v. FrL, 9.10.2001]. --
This means, that both parties of the scandalous pair became bigamists in North America: he, now Frederick Philip Grove, when he married Catherine Wiens, his fellow teacher in Winkler & Morden, Manitoba, on August 2, 1914. She, when she married Leopold Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven on November 19, 1913, at the City Hall in Manhattan, New York. --
Grove, who was born in Radomno [East Prussia then, Poland since 1945] and usually added 7, not 6 years, to his real age, declared that he was 41 [he was 35], and a widower born in Moscow, Russia. -- Else, who was born in 1874, used her maiden name Ploetz for the occasion, and reduced her age of 39 by 11 years, thus matching the age of the groom, who was born in 1885, and thus 28 years old. --

Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. --

Contents:
Inhalt: Selbstinszenierungen (pp.9-15, with two 1915 photos showing Else posing). -- Teil I: Die Geburt einer Dada Personlichkeit, Kapitel 1. "Im Haus des Vaters". -- (pp.19ff). --
Teil II: Sexuelle Moderne in Berlin & Munchen, Kapitel 2. Sexkapaden in Berlin. Kapitel 3. Als neue Frau unter Mannern. Kapitel 4. Munchen um 1900, Stadt der Jugend und Erotik. Kapitel 5. Felix Paul Greve: Elsas Sex-Sonne. -- (pp.37ff). --
Teil III: New York Dada, Kapitel 6. Nackt in New York . Kapitel 7. Lebender Dada: mit dem Phallus in der Hand. Kapitel 8. Der gusseiserne Liebhaber. Kapitel 9. Der Dada zunde[l]t: Die "Little Review". -- Bound between pp. 144 & [145]: 8 p. with col. photos of mostly FrL art objects from the Mark Kelman & Francis Naumann Collections, NY. -- Kapitel 10. Anschlage auf den amerikanischen Mann. -- Kapitel 11. Abschied von New York. -- (pp.95ff). --
Teil VI. Ruckkehr nach Europa: Berlin & Paris, Kapitel 12. Berliner Exil. Kapitel 13. Susse Djuna. Kapitel 14. Der letzte Tanz in Paris. -- (pp.175ff). --
p. 219-222: Nachwort / Gisela Baronin Freytag von Loringhoven ["Tubingen, 11.01.03" is omitted on 222). -- Danksagung / Irene Gammel (p. 223). -- Anmerkungen (pp. 225-337). -- Zeittafel (239-243, slightly less detailed than in 1st ed.) . -- Bibliografie (p. 245-253: A. FrL Werke. 1. Bildende Kunst. 2. FrL als Modell. 3. Literarisches Werk. B. Zum Werk der E. v. FrL. 1. Ausstellungen. 2. Auto/biografien. 3. FrL in Erinnerungen & Fiktionen. 4. Untersuchungen zu FrL. [Note: 1st ed.: 251, and arranged in different grouping]. -- Personenregister [in reduced type size]: (p.254-256). --

Local Note:
RBR copy autographed on half-title page in red ink to the donor, Dr. Gaby Divay, by the author Irene Gammel

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