Clara Menck

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Clara Menck (* 9. December 1901 as Klara Paula Emmy Tichauer ; † 7. February 1983 in Stuttgart ) was a German journalist .

Career

Tichauer studied philosophy in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl and in Heidelberg with Karl Jaspers . After the murder of Walther Rathenau , she is said to have taken part in protest demonstrations in Freiburg. In 1927 she received her doctorate on " François Quesnay as a political economist". After marrying Hans Menck in 1928, she moved to Bonn. She gave birth to two children, they divorced in 1933 and after their divorce moved back to Stuttgart with their two children.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, she was - her father was a Jewish Berlin lawyer and notary - until the war ended without employment.

After the war ended, she worked as a journalist for the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Radio Stuttgart from 1945. From 1949 to 1951 she worked as a correspondent for the Neue Zeitung in Stuttgart. After that she wrote as a freelance journalist mainly for the culture department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

She was considered a left-liberal, sensitive and often interested journalist who took a committed position on many topics in post-war Germany. Among other things, she wrote the ten-page documentary Students Against Harlan in the magazine The Month in 1952 , in which she reported in a differentiated manner on the protests of Freiburg students against the screenings of the film Hannah Amon by Jud-Süß director Veit Harlan and the accompanying massive police operation.

She was a member of the board of the Stuttgart Journalists 'Association and from 1965 on the board of the German Journalists' Association .

In 1963 she received the Theodor Wolff Prize, and in 1966 the Federal Cross of Merit.

After her death in February 1983, the German Literature Archive in Marbach acquired her estate.

Honors

literature

Gabriele Neuf-Münkel: Clara Menck: building for people . in Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte , 48 (2001), no. 12, pp. 748-750

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the research database on building culture ; accessed: October 29, 2012.
  2. ^ Clara Merk: Students against Harlan. in the journal The month of 42 March 1952 4 vol., pp 573-583
  3. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: press release of the German Literature Archive Marbach ) on the 100th birthday of Clara Menck, December 4, 2001; accessed: October 29, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dla-marbach.de
  4. ↑ Clara Menck. build for people , electronic resource of the article at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed: October 29, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Menck, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tichauer, Klara Paula Emmy (maiden name); Andersen, Paula (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1901
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1983
Place of death Stuttgart