Ada Brodsky

Ada Brodsky (2008)

Ada Brodsky , née Neumark , ( Hebrew עדה ברודסקי; October 30, 1924 in Frankfurt (Oder) , German Reich - April 12, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli radio journalist and translator of German poetry into Hebrew .

Life

Ada Neumark grew up with her brother Eldad (Alfred) Neumark († May 16, 2010), a later pianist, as the daughter of the Jewish pediatrician Hermann Neumark and Ilse Neumark, née Bernhard, in an apartment on Wilhelmsplatz in Frankfurt (Oder). In 1938 a poem by her was published in the Jüdische Rundschau for children, whereupon she received an exit certificate from the children and youth aliyah . In the same year she arrived in what was then Palestine on a Kindertransport via Trieste . Her brother had applied for a scholarship for the Jerusalem Conservatory and was also allowed to leave Germany with a student certificate for the music school. Her parents were able to use money borrowed from relatives to get the last certificate issued at the British embassy and to leave for Palestine in March 1939.

After graduating from high school in 1943, Ada Neumark lived in a kibbutz for a year and then studied English literature and Jewish studies in Jerusalem. Later he studied music education and musicology at the Jerusalem Music Academy. She worked as a radio journalist and designed mostly multi-part programs about the life and work of important composers. In addition to her radio work, she also worked as a translator of German poetry and prose into Hebrew. She was primarily concerned with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke and wrote, among other things, the two-volume Hebrew monograph anthology "Rainer Maria Rilke, Weg eines Dichters". She worked closely with the Goethe Institute in Jerusalem over a long period of time.

In 1992, Ada Brodsky first contacted the city archives of her hometown, where she visited again for the first time in 1994. Together with her brother, on May 8, 1994, she gave the lecture "Driven Home" in the Kleist Museum, in which she told of her own past in a literary and musical way. In 1995 she was awarded the Goethe Medal by Hilmar Hoffmann in Weimar for her services to the understanding between Germany and Israel . On the afternoon of April 12, 2011, she died of cancer that was diagnosed in late autumn 2010 . She was married to David Brodsky and had two daughters, born in 1949 and 1953.

Commemoration

Stumbling block for Ada Brodsky

On July 5, 2010 in Frankfurt (Oder) Alfred Neumark, Dr. Hermann Neumark and Ilse Neumark stumbling blocks by the artist Gunter Demnig laid. A stumbling block was laid for Ada Brodsky on September 8, 2011 in Frankfurt (Oder) . The inscription reads:

HERE LIVED ADA Brosky GEB. NEUMARK JG. 1924 ESCAPED 1938 PALESTINE SURVIVED

publication

• Driven home. Text book and CD. Story of a childhood in Hitler-Germany , 1999 (with Eldad Neumark)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ada Brodsky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Last refuge , article about Ada Brodsky in ZEIT history 04/08

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ada Brodsky died. City of Frankfurt (Oder), April 26, 2011, accessed on January 2, 2014 .