Lulu von Strauss und Torney

Lulu von Strauss und Torney (1873–1956) was a German poet and writer.

[1] Best remembered for her ballads,[2] she also wrote historical fiction with rural settings in northwest Germany.

[3] Lulu von Strauss und Torney was born in 1873 in Bückeburg.

She was the daughter of a German general,[3] who had served as an adjutant at the court of the Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe.

Her politics moved to the right, and she proclaimed Hans Grimm's 1926 novel Volk ohne Raum to be "a German spiritual event".