Alena Wagnerová

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Alena Wagnerová , also Alena Köhler-Wagnerová (born May 18, 1936 in Brno , Czechoslovakia ) is a German-Czech publicist, sociologist and author. She lives in Saarbrücken and Prague.

Life

Alena Wagnerová studied biology and education at the Masaryk University in Brno, where she also received her doctorate. She first became a dramaturge and has been a freelance journalist since 1966. From 1968 to 1969 she wrote for magazines such as Plamen and Literární Noviny and dealt with current socio-political and cultural issues. She has lived in Saarbrücken and Prague since 1969 and works as a writer, translator and editor. She was a board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Women's Council and is a member of the section for women's research in the German Society for Sociology . She is also a member of the Center for Oral History (Oral-history centrum, Saarbrücken-Praha) and the writers' association PEN Center Germany .

Alena Wagnerová also published under the pseudonym Helena Kolářová.

Act

Wagnerová wrote a biography about the Czech Countess Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín (1885–1950). Her friend Karl Kraus wrote his work The Last Days of Mankind in their Janowitz Castle, south of Prague . Wagnerovás book is both a history of the castle, from whose site the Nazis in 1942 a training ground for the SS - Panzer Division wanted to do.

Wagnerová's book Heroes of Hope , in which she published fifteen interviews with some Sudeten Germans , was widely discussed . They were Sudeten Germans who had not sympathized with National Socialism: Social Democrats, Communists or Catholics, who were persecuted both during and after National Socialism and were expelled from Czechoslovakia.

Another topic that Wagnerová has dealt with for many years is the fate of Milena Jesenská (and thus that of her friend Franz Kafka ). As early as 1994 she made her CV out ( "All my items are love letters"), she has published numerous articles about them, among other things, they also reported on the find Jesenskás previously unknown letters to her husband and daughter in part to the Ravensbruck concentration camp , which on the State Security File of her divorced husband, Jaromír Krejcar .

Alena Wagnerová's interest also extends to the problem of women in Eastern Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia during the communist regime: the situation of women, equality and emancipation. In 1986 she found out that the women's question, at that time heavily debated in the West, hardly interests anyone in Czechoslovakia. Some problems of the double burden of women, which existed under capitalism, were by no means solved - as a result of, for example, poorer services, they were even increased. The advantages such as the ease of handling abortions or the formally greater equality of rights have not been able to offset the existing disadvantages and have rather cemented the double burden due to the high level of employment. Wagnerovà's work on this topic is also interesting because it uses and evaluates previously unknown empirical material.

Publications (selection)

  • The woman in socialism, example of the CSSR . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-09093-1 .
  • In 1945 they were children. Flight and displacement in the life of a generation . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-462-02022-6
  • Milena Jesenská. "All of my articles are love letters". Biography . Bollmann, Mannheim 1994, ISBN 3-927901-54-7
  • Prague women. Nine life pictures . Bollmann, Mannheim 1995, ISBN 3-927901-59-8
  • The Kafka family from Prague. "In the headquarters of the noise" . Bollmann, Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3-927901-91-1
  • "I would have to answer for days and nights". Milena's letters . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13913-9
  • The life of Sidonie Nádherný. A biography . European publishing company, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-50543-1
  • Heroes of Hope - the other Germans from the Sudetes. 1935-1989 . Structure, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-02657-8

literature

  • Wagnerová, Alena in: PEN Center Germany. Author Lexicon . Hammer, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-87294-854-7
  • Raimund Paleczek: Alena Wagnerová: Heroes of Hope - the other Germans from the Sudetes 1938–1989 . In: Sehepunkte . Review journal for historical studies. No. 10-2009. Munich Table of Contents SEHEPUNKTE, Issue 9 (2009), No. 10 (accessed: January 27, 2010)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The name Sidonie Nádherný from Borutín is sporadic , ie in the male form of the surname.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alena Köhler-Wagnerová: The woman in socialism - example ČSSR , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-455-09093-1
  2. ↑ Alena Wagnerová , curriculum vitae on the Databazeknih.cz portal, online at: databazeknih.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Volební výsledky do výkonného výboru a revizní České asociace orální historie , online at: docplayer.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Wagnerová, Alena, 1936- , information from the Historical Institute of the AV ČR , online at: biblio.hiu.cas.cz / ...
  5. ↑ Nanette Funk, Magda Mueller: Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union , Routledge Library Editions, 1993/2018, Chapter 7., Jiřina Šiklová: Are Women in Central and Eastern Europe Conservtive? , Footnote 9 at the end of this section.
  6. ↑ Alena Wagnerova. The life of Sidonie Nadherny , meeting note in Perlentaucher.de, online at: perlentaucher.de / ...
  7. ↑ Alena Wagnerova (ed.). Heroes of Hope , meeting note in Perlentaucher.de, online at: perlentaucher.de / ... ; also discussed in: Der Tagesspiegel of September 29, 2008, Die Zeit of September 25, 2008, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 7, 2008.
  8. ↑ Dear, dear Max. The life of Milena Jesenská , review, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 26, 1996, online at: faz.net / ... ; Milena Jesenská's letters: My God, how do I get rid of this hatred? , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 10, 2013, online at: faz.net / ... ;
  9. ↑ Helena Kolářová (pseudonym): The real equality. Women in the ČSSR almost forty years later , In: Women - Everyday Life and Emancipation , Eastern Europe Info No. 67, Hamburg 1986, pp. 38-50
personal data
SURNAME Wagnerová, Alena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolářová, Helena (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech author
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czechoslovakia