Works
Everything she published herself: books of poetry, short fiction, travel writing, a novel and a memoir, and the shorter pieces — a lecture, an essay in criticism — that never reached a book. All in German, all in the public domain. Each entry links to the original scan, and to the English translation where one exists.
Open Letter on “Mors Imperator”
Her answer, in the press, to the Berlin jury that rejected Mors Imperator — the first time she took her own case to the public.
In English draft
Spanish Artists in Rome
The first of three surveys of artistic Rome she wrote for a Viennese art weekly in 1892 — the year she was, in effect, its Rome correspondent.
In English draftGerman original →
Night and Revolt
Two poems in a Viennese art weekly, June 1892 — printed in the wilder form she later edited out of the book.
In English draftGerman original →
Tollkraut
Her first collection of short fiction — thirteen novellas, dedicated to Konrad Telmann.
Not translated yetGerman original →
Via passionis
A book of 'life-songs' — her first major poetry collection.
Not translated yetGerman original →
On the Artistic Education of Woman
Her 1896 lecture to the International Women's Congress in Berlin, demanding that the art academies be opened to women — her feminism in her own words.
In English in revisionGerman original →
Noch einmal „Mors Imperator“
An elegiac poem-cycle mourning her husband Konrad Telmann, its title reprising her famous painting.
Not translated yet
Flammenmal
Poems under a Leonardo epigraph — a book she illustrated with reproductions of her own paintings.
Not translated yet
Yoshiwara
A novel that follows its heroine Indra from Berlin across India, Ceylon, Burma, and Japan — named for Tokyo's pleasure district.
The Novel of My Life
Her autobiographical novel — 'a woman's life at the turn of the century' — published posthumously.
In English · 75 of 75 chapters draftGerman original →