Hedwig Lachmann

Hedwig Lachmann was a German poet and translator, among the first to bring French and English symbolist writing into German, translating Rossetti, Swinburne, Verlaine and Wilde from the 1890s onward. Her 1903 translation of Wilde's Salome became, almost unaltered, the libretto Richard Strauss set two years later, giving her more readers than any of her own poems. After her marriage to the anarchist writer Gustav Landauer that same year, the couple went on to translate further volumes of Wilde, Balzac, Poe and Conrad together. She died in 1918; her grandson was the film director Mike Nichols.