Life
Elsa Bernstein was born in Vienna, a daughter of Heinrich Porges (himself the friend of Richard Wagner), and married Max Bernstein. She was educated at Munich; and, for a short time, on the stage. An affliction of the eyes forced her to retire, and she thenceforth devoted herself to dramatic literature. Shortly after her marriage in 1892 to Max Bernstein, she wrote her first play, "Wir Drei," which created considerable discussion. It was really a dramatized version of the matrimonial and sexual views of Taine and Zola. Her next plays fell rather flat: "Dämmerung" (1893); "Die Mutter Maria," 1894; "Tedeum" (1896); "Themistokles" (1897); and Daguy Peters. But unbounded admiration was elicited by Die Königskinder (1895) — a dramatic fairy-tale. Though its plot was simple, the beauty of the theme and its poetry were such as to class it with Ludwig Fulda's Der Talisman." She died, aged 82, in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel.
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