Adrienne Thomas
Adrienne Thomas (pseudonym for Hertha Strauch ; born June 24, 1897 in Sankt Avold , Alsace-Lorraine , † November 7, 1980 in Vienna ) was a German writer .
Life
Adrienne Thomas grew up bilingual in a Jewish family in Saint-Avold and Metz in Lorraine . Her father ran a small department store. During the First World War she moved to Berlin with her family . In Metz she registered as a volunteer Red Cross helper when she was seventeen . In October 1921 she moved in as the wife of the dentist Dr. Arno Lesser moved to Magdeburg and stayed there until they moved to Berlin in 1928. After training as a singer and actor in Berlin, she wrote her anti-war novel Die Katrin wird Soldat (1930), which made her famous overnight and was translated into 16 languages.
During the period of National Socialism her books were banned. Thomas emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 , a short time later to France , then to Austria . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, she continued to flee through several European countries. After she was briefly interned in France in the Gurs camp in the spring of 1940 together with Hannah Arendt and Emma Kann , she managed to escape to the USA with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee . In exile she got to know the Austrian politician and Spain fighter Julius Deutsch (founder of the social democratic protection association and leader of the February uprising of 1934 in Vienna) and came to Vienna because of him in 1947 , although Vienna would not have been her first choice and later prompted her to make the ironic remark , she might even have preferred to go to the Hottentots than to Vienna. Julius Deutsch drove ahead in 1946. She married Deutsch for the second time in 1951. She processed her exile experiences in the novels Depart, Mademoiselle! (1944) and A Window on the East River (1945).
She was buried in the grave of Julius Deutsch in the Grinzing cemetery .
Works
- Katrin becomes a soldier. Novel , 1930
- Three quarters of curiosity. Roman , Amsterdam 1934
- Katrin! The world is on fire! Roman , Amsterdam 1936
- Andrea. Story for young people , Basel 1937
- Victoria. Story for young people , Basel 1937
- Race against the dream. Roman , Amsterdam 1939
- From Johanna to Jane. Roman , Amsterdam 1939
- Depart, Mademoiselle! Roman , Stockholm 1944
- A window to the East River , Amsterdam 1945
- Here and there. Novellas , 1950
- A dog was lost. Story for young people , 1953 (later under the title A dog for two gentlemen , 1973)
- St. Mark's Square at four , 1955
literature
- Rebecca Biener: The literary defense of little luck using the example of the author Adrienne Thomas . Dissertation University of Siegen 2005 ( full text )
- Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 (on Adrienne Thomas pp. 50–51)
- Adrienne Thomas: Katrin becomes a soldier and something else from Lorraine. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-86110-455-1
- Jacques Gandebeuf: Adrienne Thomas, le Fantôme Oublié de la Gare de Metz , Serpenoise, Metz 2009 ISBN 978-2-87692-788-9
- Thomas, Adrienne. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 .
- Karin Sinhuber: Adrienne Thomas. A monograph. Diss. Phil. University of Vienna 1990 (mach.)
- Sabine Rohlf: "At home I was only at one desk." Autobiography, exile and authorship in texts by Irmgard Keun and Adrienne Thomas, in exile research. An International Yearbook , Vol. 25: Autobiography and Scientific Biographies. Edited by Claus-Dieter Krohn , Erwin Rothermund, Lutz Winckler, Wulf Koepke. Edition Text and Criticism , Munich 2005, ISBN 3883778060 , pp. 128–149
- Emma Kann: My memories of the Gurs camp. In: Exil, XV (1995), 2, pp. 25-28
Web links
- Literature by and about Adrienne Thomas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Adrienne Thomas in the German Digital Library
- Adrienne Thomas. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Adrienne Thomas in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
- Adrienne Thomas in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emma Kann: My memories of the Gurs camp. P. 26
- ^ Information from Ingrid Schramm, Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library, from October 22, 2014
- ^ FAZ table of contents
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomas, Adrienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bush, Hertha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Avold |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1980 |
| Place of death | Vienna |