Alice Berend

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Alice Berend (portrayed by Emil Stumpp , 1928)
Alice Berend (portrayed by her brother-in-law Lovis Corinth , 1924)

Alice Berend (born June 30, 1875 in Berlin , † April 2, 1938 in Florence ) was a German writer .

Life

Alice Berend was the daughter of a factory owner and a banker's daughter, her younger sister was the painter Charlotte Berend-Corinth . She attended high school and then from 1898 wrote articles for various newspapers. In 1904 in London she married John Jönsson , a Swedish writer. Both lived first in Berlin-Tiergarten , in the years before the First World War in Florence and then in Berlin-Zehlendorf , Munich and Oberstdorf . In Munich she became friends with Carl Schmitt and, inspired by this friendship, published the novel "Der Glückspilz", which is about a professor and beetle researcher named Martin Böckelmann who is foreign to the world and can be read as a portrait of Schmitt in the form of a key novel.

Constancy

Between 1920 and 1924 she lived in Konstanz . First in Gottlieber Strasse, then she had a country house-style villa built by the Ganter & Picard office in Eichhornstrasse in Constance, which was called the “Schreiberhäusle”. She met socially with the artists Kasia von Szadurska , Karl Einhart , Waldemar Flaig , Fritz Mauthner , Harriet Straub , the Höri artist Willi Münch-Khe and Wilhelm von Scholz . She finally divorced Jönsson and married the Constance painter Hans Breinlinger in London in 1926 .

Berlin

She moved to Berlin with Breinlinger and built there in Zehlendorf in 1930/31. In 1933, the National Socialists put their works on the " List of harmful and undesirable literature ". In the same year, Breinlinger and Berend divorced.

emigration

In 1935 she emigrated to Florence with her twenty-five-year-old daughter Carlotta. Her last two works could only appear abroad. Alice Berend was Jewish, even if this religion probably never meant anything to her. Both husbands were Christians, she had her children baptized and converted to Christianity two years before her death. In spring 1938 she died impoverished and forgotten after a long illness. Only the pastor and the daughter from her first marriage were present at her funeral.

Well-known novels

Berend wrote a number of humorous to realistic novels from around 1910 , which were often set in the Berlin bourgeoisie , as well as children's books . Her personal descriptions earned her the reputation of a "little fountain ". Her most successful work was The Bridegrooms of Babette Bomberling (1915), also known are The Journey of Mr. Sebastian Wenzel (1912), Mrs. Hempel's Daughter (1913) and Spreemann & Co. (1916). Her novels were mostly published by Fischer-Verlag.

The Lake Constance region was the background to her novels Die goldene Traube (1927) and Der Kapitän vom Bodensee (1932).

On her last work she worked until death; The title originally intended by the author was: "Natural history of the philistine ". It was first published in 1962 under the title “The good old days: Citizens and philistines in the 19th century”.

It is probably due to the work ban imposed by the Nazis in connection with her untimely death that Alice Berend was and is hardly known even to literary scholars after the Second World War. Only three of her works have been published again, all others are only available in antiquarian versions.

Commemoration

In Berlin-Moabit since 1999 recalls a road to it, in Konstanz the renovated Schreiber Häusle in Eichhornstraße 22nd

Works (selection)

  • The Journey of Mr. Sebastian Wenzel (1912)
  • Mrs. Hempel's daughter (1913)
  • The Bridegrooms of Babette Bomberling (1915, 1922 an edition illustrated by Karl Arnold at S. Fischer in Berlin)
  • Spreemann & Co. (1916)
  • The one at Kittelsrode (1917)
  • Matthias Senf's engagement (1918)
  • The lucky guy (1919)
  • Simple Hearts (1919)
  • Jungfer Binchen and the Bachelors (1920)
  • Auntie Rehlen (1921)
  • Brother's Confession (1922)
  • Dore Brandt (1909 and 1922)
  • The Flea and the Violinist (1923)
  • Contemplations of a philistine (1924)
  • Small Detours (1924)
  • The contortionist (1925)
  • The Story of Noah's Ark (1925)
  • The Burned Bed (1926)
  • Miss Betty the Widow (1926)
  • The golden grape (1927)
  • The Director (1928)
  • The Little Pearl (1929)
  • Mr Five (1930)
  • The guest performance (1931)
  • The Captain of Lake Constance (1932)
  • A Dog's Life: A Doberman's Life Story Told By Himself (1935)
  • Philistine (1938)
  • The good old days: citizens and philistines in the 19th century ( posthumous , 1962)

literature

  • Alice Berend. In: Richard Drews, Alfred Kantorowicz (Hrsg.): Verboten und burned. German literature - suppressed for 12 years . Heinz Ullstein / Helmut Kindler, Berlin / Munich 1947, p. 20 f.
  • Diedrich Diederichsen:  Berend, Alice. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 69 ( digitized version ).
  • Ursula El-Akramy: The Berend sisters. Story of a Berlin family. European Publishing House / Rotbuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-50491-5 .
  • Ursula Geitner: Considerations of the Philistine : 1800/1900 / 1924. In: Philister. Problem story of a social figure in modern German literature. Edited by Remigius Bunia, Till Dembeck, Georg Stanitzek. Akademie, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005266-3 , pp. 121–141, pp. 132 ff.
  • Stephanie Günther: Fin de Siècle femininity designs. Berlin authors: Alice Berend, Margarete Böhme, Clara Viebig. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03205-6 .
  • Berend, Alice. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 117-124.
  • Ariane Martin: Opposing typifications - secretaries in novels by Irmgard Keun and Alice Berend. In: Julia Freytag, Alexandra Tacke (Ed.): City Girls. Bob Haired & Blue Stockings in the 1920s. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20603-1 (=  literature - culture - gender. Small series. Volume 29), pp. 21–34.
  • Jana Mikota: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: “A humorist has come to us”: Alice Berend . In: Medaon, 5 (2011), 8 ( online ).

Web links

Wikisource: Alice Berend  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Alice Berend  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Mehring : Carl Schmitt. Rise and fall. A biography. CH Beck , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59224-9 , p. 105.
  2. ^ A b c Manfred Bosch: New shine for the "Schreiberhäusle". In: Konstanzer Almanach, Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz 2012. 59th year 2013, pp. 66–68.
  3. ^ A b Manfred Bosch: Successful renovation. In: Südkurier of August 3, 2012.
  4. ↑ Alice Berend is on the list of harmful and undesirable literature as Alice Behrend .
  5. ↑ Ursula El-Akramy: The Berend sisters. Story of a Berlin family. Europäische Verlagsanstalt / Rotbuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-50491-5 , p. 294 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Berend, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES A. Hertz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1938
Place of death Florence