Lulu von Strauß und Torney

Lulu von Strauss und Torney (1873–1956) was a German poet and writer, best known for her ballads and rural historical fiction set in northwest Germany.

Lulu von Strauss und Torney (1873–1956) was a German poet and writer. Best remembered for her ballads, she also wrote historical fiction with rural settings in northwest Germany.

Life Lulu von Strauss und Torney was born in 1873 in Bückeburg. She was the daughter of a German general, and helped write Die Botschaft Gottes (The Message of God), a Nazi version of the New Testament. She was one of only five women that Hitler awarded with a Goethe Medal for Art and Science.

She published a biography of her husband after his death, and her own memoirs in 1943. Correspondence with Agnes Miegel and with Theodor Heuss was posthumously published. She also translated from the French.

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