Ada Battke

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Ada Battke , b. Ada Zimmermann , married Ada Cahn-Speyer (born February 8, 1879 in Forst , Niederlausitz ; † after 1958) was a German writer .

Life

She came as the daughter of the brewery owner Friedrich Zimmermann and Anna, geb. Wagner, in the Lower Lusatian forest. Her parents were wealthy, but lost their fortune soon after their daughter was born and moved to Berlin in 1883 . Here Ada Zimmermann attended Margaretenschule, a secondary school for girls . At the age of 15, Zimmermann lost her father and was subsequently responsible for looking after her mother. In October 1897 she married the composer and teacher Max Battke (1863–1916). Son Fritz was born in 1898, the second son Heinz Battke followed in 1900. He later became a well-known painter; Fritz fell in World War I in 1917 .

From 1897 Ada Battke was in charge of the Sunday supplement of the Deutsche Warte , Jugend-Warte , and from 1908 was the editor of the weekly Für's Haus . Her first single literary publication was the story collection Kleine Mädchen in 1901 .

Max Battke died in 1916. In the same year Ada Battke married the Jewish conductor Rudolf Cahn-Speyer (1881–1940) , who came from Austria . She moved with him to Florence after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 . Here the couple lived undisturbed and took part in the city's musical life. Ada Battke's son also fled to Florence from the Nazis in 1935. After Adolf Hitler visited Florence in 1940 and issued a ban on going out for all German emigrants, Battke's husband died a short time later, what Battke assumed was a "psychological shock".

After the war, appeared in 1958 in the press Trajan with the poetry collection Palomar last release Battkes. She last lived with her son Heinz Battke, who had meanwhile become a professor at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut , in Eysseneckstrasse in Frankfurt am Main .

Works (selection)

  • 1901: Little girls. Lots of stories
  • 1902: Secret Brides. Lots of stories
  • 1905: hot breath. Novellas
  • 1949: last love. Poems
  • 1958: Palomar. Poems

literature

  • Ada Battke . In: Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Volume 1. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1913, pp. 131-132.
  • Ada Battke . In: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland Scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures . Second edition. Bio-bibliographischer Verlag Albert Steinhage, Hannover 1910, p. 32.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music Past and Present: General Encyclopedia of Music. Supplement, Aachen – Dyson . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1973, p. 1243.
personal data
SURNAME Battke, Ada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Ada (maiden name); Cahn-Speyer, Ada (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Forst , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH after 1958