Alexandra Röhl

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Alexandra Röhl, b. Gutzeit (born August 31, 1899 in Friederikenruh, formerly East Prussia ; † January 31, 1976 in Buchen im Odenwald ) was a Bauhaus student, painter, milliner and writer.

family

Alexandra Röhl, b. Gutzeit was born on the Friederikenruh manor. She came from a noble Prussian family (including von Richthofen, von Eschholtz, von Haine). Some of the ancestors served as high officers and their great-grandfather is said to have once captured Napoleon Bonaparte . He was said to be late for a reception at the Russian Tsar Alexander , as his wife had just given birth to a daughter. The tsar offered himself as a godfather and so the name Alexandra came into the female line of the family.

Studies, training and work

From 1915 to 1917, Alexandra Röhl attended the Königsberg Lyceum, where she received drawing lessons and where her decision to become a painter was probably solidified. From 1918 she studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts in Weimar and from 1919 at the State Bauhaus , where she also enrolled in the architecture course. Röhl studied with Walther Klemm , among others , and made friends with painters such as Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky . There were contacts with the Dadaist scene. In 1922 she took part in the Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar. After a short time at the Bauhaus, she married the painter and Bauhaus master student Karl Peter Röhl . The marriage, which resulted in a son in 1920, lasted only a few years. As a later single mother, Alexandra Röhl had to refrain from her earlier plans. She completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, graduated as a master craftsman and opened a fashion studio on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm . The Second World War, and in particular the bombing raids on Berlin, which also destroyed her studio, led Alexandra Röhl to flee west and settle in the Odenwald. She first lived in Wolfsbrunn near Amorbach and then until her death in Buchen , where she began a new, small career as a writer. Two of her works have become known: duets with him and winged ones above us . The committed animal rights activist and declared opponent of animal experiments tells about the symbolic meaning of the bird for humans. The encounter with an injured robin that Alexandra Röhl had found and nursed back to health was the trigger for this new occupation.

The Buchen District Museum now has drawings, watercolors and sketches from her estate that are still signed with her birth name.

Life

During the short marriage with Karl Peter Röhl, who u. a. had designed the first Bauhaus signet ("star man"), their son Tülö Röhl was born in 1920. The division of labor into families, which was still common at the time, meant that Alexandra Röhl mainly looked after the child and the family, while her husband could continue to pursue his vocation. Her husband soon deregistered from Bauhaus classes because of "household duties". After the divorce from Karl Peter Röhl in 1925, Alexandra Röhl had to provide for a livelihood for her son, which resulted in the change of careers described above. Their son Tülö died as a soldier in the war in 1943. After moving to the Odenwald towards the end of the war, she organized sewing courses in Wolfsbrunn, where today there is also a memorial stone for her fallen son. She began to write in Buchen. With her short gray hair and her deep voice, she was a special figure and, due to her biography, also a symbol of an emancipated woman in the then still strictly patriarchal post-war society of the young Federal Republic. Alexandra (Alexa) Röhl found her final resting place in 1976 in the municipal cemetery in Buchen in the Odenwald . Her tombstone is adorned with a flying bird.

Literary works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brosch, Helmut., Weckbach, Norbert .: Do you still know them ... those of Buchen . European Library, Zaltbommel 1985, ISBN 90-288-3074-X .
  2. ↑ Rössler, Patrick: Bauhaus girls . Cologne, ISBN 3-8365-6353-3 .
  3. ↑ Brosch, Helmut. Weckbach, Norbert .: Do you still know them ... those of Buchen . European Library, 1985, ISBN 90-288-3074-X .
  4. ↑ Bauhaus signet star man. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rössler, Patrick, author .: Bauhaus girls . ISBN 3-8365-6353-3 .
  6. ↑ Alexandra R – hl. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Röhl, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, milliner and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Friederikenruh
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1976
Place of death Beeches (Odenwald)