Hedda Eulenberg (March 6, 1876 – September 13, 1960) was a German translator.
Eulenberg was born in Meiderich. She was the daughter of Wilhelm Maase, a director for music.
She passed her school-leaving exam (Abitur) in 1893 at the Luisenschule in Düsseldorf. In 1897 she married the author Arthur Moeller van den BruckinBerlin, whom she had known since her days at school in Düsseldorf. 1901 she met the poet Herbert Eulenberg in Berlin at the premiere of his play ‘Muenchhausen’. The same year Arthur Moeller van den Bruck fled to France for political and economical reasons.
1901 J.C.C. Bruns published her ten volumes of the translations of Edgar Allan Poe’s works. 1903 Reclam published her German translation of GerminalbyEmile Zola. In 1904 she divorced from Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and married Herbert Eulenberg. In 1905 they moved to Kaiserswerth near Düsseldorf, where Herbert Eulenberg worked as a dramaturge at the theatre under Luise Dumont. At her new home she began her first translations of Guy de Maupassant and further works by Emil Zola. Her German translations were published the following year by J.C.C. Bruns, Minden, Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich, and other publishing houses. From 1908 until 1936 she translated works by Maupassant, Zola, and Charles Dickens. Her translations, the first in German, were published by Philip Reclam in Leipzig, C.C.G. Bruns in Minden, and Nymphenburger Verlagsanstalt in Munich. At the same time she published numerous newspaper articles, mostly about Monism. In 1936 the Nazi Party started its persecution of Hedda and Herbert Eulenberg to destroy their economical and intellectual existence. Hedda could no longer find a German publisher who was prepared to publish her works. After 1945 she began to pick up her work again, which she had to stop in 1936. In 1954 her biography “Im Doppelglück von Kunst und Leben” was published. In 1956 she returned to her translations of Henry Troyat, Yvette Guilbert, and Thomas Burke, all published by Droste Verlag. On September 13, 1960 she died in Kaiserswerth in “Haus Freiheit” (house of freedom).
Im Doppelglück von Kunst und Leben. Düsseldorf: Die Faehre, [1952].
Abgesang. Düsseldorf: Die Faehre, [1952]
