Hedwig Lachmann (29 August 1865 – 21 February 1918) was a German

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, translator and

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Life and work

Lachmann was born in Stolp,

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in 1865, to a

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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

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to become a language teacher. Two years later she became a governess in

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. From 1899 until 1917 she belonged to both the Friedrichshagen and Pankow poetry societies. She met her future

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, Gustav Landauer, in 1899 at Richard Dehmel's house. One of their grandchildren, Mike Nichols, grew up to be an American television, stage and

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, writer, and producer. She died in Krumbach, Swabia, a very early fatality of the

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Works

Poetry :''Im Bilde'' 1902 :''Collection of Poetry'' post. 1919 Translations ;From English :Works from

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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

: '' The Post Office'', '' The King of the Dark Chamber'' ;From Hungarian :Hungarian Poems 1891 :Works from

Sándor Petőfi Sándor Petőfi ( []; né Petrovics; ; ; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and Classical Liberalism, liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungari ...

;From French :

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: '' Salome''. This became the libretto for Richard Strauss's opera '' Salome''. :Works from Honoré de Balzac

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German Tragedies: Robert Nichols Remembers
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