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Lilly Becher (born Korpus; born January 27, 1901 in Nuremberg ; † September 20, 1978 in East Berlin ) was a German writer and publicist .
Life
Lilly Becher (née Korpus) was born on January 27, 1901, as the daughter of the Jewish engineer Emil Korpus in Nuremberg . Becher attended high school in Munich from 1915 to 1918 and completed a language course at Heidelberg University by 1919, which she had to finish after her parents refused to give her financial support. In 1919 she joined the KPD . In the same year she also completed a traineeship for the Vossische Zeitung . She worked at Delphinverlag Munich, at Ullstein and in 1921 for the KPD central organ, Die Rote Fahne, in Berlin . 1922–1923 she was the women's leader of the KPD Berlin-Neukölln . From 1924 to 1926 she headed the women's magazine Die Arbeiterin, which she founded, and was then editor and editor of the New German Publishing House until 1933 . In addition, she was editor-in-chief of the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung from 1932 to 1933 .
1933-1934 lived cup in Vienna , and was then to 1936 employee of the coin mountain belonging Corporation publishing house Editions du Carrefour in Paris . It was here that she met her future husband, Johannes R. Becher . In 1936, Becher published the second German-language documentation on the persecution of Jews under National Socialism - two years after the Black Book published in Paris in 1934 - Facts and Documents. The situation of the Jews in Germany . Becher's book was published in 1936 under the title “The Yellow Spot” with a foreword by Lion Feuchtwanger in Editions Carrefour, which belongs to the Communist Party of Germany, Paris 1936- Until 1945, Becher lived as a translator for the state publisher in Moscow and also worked for the magazine “International Literature”, the German section of Moscow Radio and the National Committee for Free Germany .
After returning to Germany, she joined the SED . From 1945 to 1950 she was editor-in-chief of the Neue Berliner Illustrierte (NBI). After the death of her husband Johannes R. Becher in 1958, she headed the archive named after him at the Academy of Arts .
Becher was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1961 and 1971 , the Labor Banner in 1969 and the Honorary Clasp for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1976.
Works
- Red signals. Poems and songs (ed.) .; Berlin 1931
- The Yellow Spot (Ed.); 1936
- L. Becher, G. Prokop: Johannes R. Becher. Pictorial chronicle of his life ; Berlin 1963
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Mug, Lilly . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Body (cup), Lilly . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lilly Becher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lilly Becher Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Edited by Rudolf Olden, Ed .: Comité des Delegations Juives, Paris 1934.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mug, Lilly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corpus, Lilly (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th September 1978 |
| Place of death | Berlin |