Frida Uhl

Writer

Female

Born Apr 4, 1872

Died Jun 28, 1943

Frida Uhl was an Austrian writer and translator, who was closely associated to many important figures in 20th-century literature. She was married to August Strindberg. She was the daughter of the well-known Friedrich Uhl, editor of the Wiener Zeitung, and Maria Uhl, a devout Catholic.… Read More

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Bildning Under 200 år Tidningen Kulturen
Google News - Sep 01, 2011

En bildad Strindberg tar av sig hatten och bockar till Frida Uhl. Han har säkert uppträtt bildat och svarat belevat på hennes frågor. Han har säkert också givit henne en känsla av att vara ”cosmopolit” och spännande. Tycke uppstår och efter stormiga år
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Ständigt Denne August! Helsingborgs Dagblad
Google News - Aug 18, 2011

I samma veva bröt han med hustrun Frida Uhl och skrevs i januari 1895 in på mentalsjukhuset Saint-Louis. Här finns texter om högt och lågt, i skiftande tonfall. I ”Till Kvinnans Zoologi” slår författaren fast (nåja) att ”Driften att fortplanta sig och
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Drei Länder – Eine Sprache – Und Ein Vielseitiges Seminarprogramm Buecher.At
Google News - Jun 27, 2011

Das Seminar „Zwei Frauen an Strindbergs Seite“ mit Friedrich Buchmayr beschäftigt sich mit Frida Uhl und Siri von Essen und der Möglichkeit, Biografien über Frauen an der Seite von berühmten Männern zu verfassen. Thomas Steinfeld, Werner Perger und
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Scenes From A Hellish Marriage
NYTimes - Aug 20, 2000

CRUEL BANQUET The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg. By Monica Strauss. Illustrated. 264 pp. New York: Harcourt. $25. VIRGINIA WOOLF remembered the so-called geniuses of her father's generation as a special breed -- always men, of course, but the temperamental sort who wore their hair long, wrapped themselves in brooding capes and needed
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1872 Birth Born in 1872.

TWENTIES

1893 21 Years Old She met Strindberg in early 1893, when she was only 20; they soon married and she at once tried to organize a production of his work in England, and took his financial affairs in hand. They had a daughter, Kerstin, together. Strindberg did not approve the active role Frida was taking in his business affairs, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1895.

1900 28 Years Old Frank Wedekind was the father of Frida's second child. She sent her children to be cared for by her parents. With a later lover, the poet Hanns Heinz Ewers, she started the first German cabaret in 1900. … Read More

THIRTIES

1905 33 Years Old Her affair with the writer Werner von Oesteren was particularly stormy. She threatened him on two separate occasions with a revolver. Details of this relationship were made public in 1905 when she sued him for harassing a detective she had hired to follow him.

1908 36 Years Old In 1908 she fired a gun in a Viennese hotel on New Year's Day. … Read More

FORTIES

1912 40 Years Old On 26 June 1912, she opened the Cave of the Golden Calf, a nightclub decorated by Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner, and Spencer Gore. … Read More

1914 42 Years Old In 1914 she left for the United States, where she quickly secured a job with Fox Film.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1937 65 Years Old In 1937 she published the memoir Marriage with Genius.

1943 71 Years Old She spent her last years in her family's summer residence at Mondsee and died there at the age of 71 in 1943.

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