After the death of her husband, she decided to promote literature in Wiesbaden as a patron and publisher.
Konell maintained numerous contacts with other German cultural figures throughout his life, including the writer Johannes Mario Simmel and the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.
George Konell called the iron cocks on the town halls of France, which for him embodied the song of the singer Orpheus as well as the ideals of the French Revolution, Orphil.
The literary prize is awarded to poets whose works take a stand and know how to resist political and stylistic fashions.
In 2011, she published her autobiography Die Frau des Dichters: Memoiren einer Rothaarigen.