Alice Ekert-Redwood
Alice Maria Augusta Ekert-Rotholz (* September 5, 1900 in Hamburg as Alice Maria Augusta Ekert , † June 17, 1995 in London ) was a German writer .
Life
She was the daughter of the British export merchant of Swedish - Russian origin Maximilian Ekert and his German-Jewish wife Hedwig Mendelsson. In 1920 Alice Ekert married the dentist Ludwig Rotholz and from then on bore the double name Ekert-Rotholz. In the 1920s the first poems by Alice M. Ekert-Rotholz appeared in the " Weltbühne ". In 1933 she emigrated with her husband to London , from where the family moved to Bangkok in 1939 . The stay there lasted until 1952. Ekert-Rotholz had contact in Thailand with Christian circles such as the Catholic Action , members of the Ursuline Order and the YMCA . Ekert-Rotholz's extensive travels in Asia , Australia and the Caribbean also took place during this period . In 1952 she returned to Hamburg with her husband . In the following years she worked as a journalist ; next came novels and travel books . After the death of her husband in 1959, she moved to London , where she lived in Hampstead until her death . She is buried in Highgate Cemetery , London.
With her first novel Rice from Silver Bowls, she achieved an international bestseller , which has been translated into numerous languages. Before that she had published a memory book with Siam behind the bamboo forest with impressions from her time in Thailand. Her subsequent novels are also predominantly social stories set in exotic surroundings. Ekert-Rotholz 'books, which can be classified as entertainment literature, were particularly successful in the Federal Republic of the 1950s and 1960s and were also included in their programs by numerous book clubs ; the total circulation of her works is over three million copies sold. Critics did not always agree with her works, but granted her a certain “English” dry sense of humor and observation despite all the clichéd romanticism. The author wrote novels into old age. They are only today antiquarian acquire or in remaining copies.
She wrote poetry all her life alongside her novels. In 2000, on the occasion of her 100th birthday, Hoffmann and Campe published the volume of poetry Im feurigen Licht. Collected poems from 1929 to 1993 . Edited and with an afterword by her son Heinz Redwood.
Works
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literature
- Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio-bibliography , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962
Web links
- Literature by and about Alice Ekert-Rotholz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about Alice Ekert-Rotholz from Perlentaucher
- Information about Alice Ekert-Rotholz from the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house
Individual evidence
- ^ Photo of Alice Ekert-Rotholz´ grave on flickr.com , taken on October 12, 2008, accessed on September 16, 2010
- ↑ Tons of tears . In: Der Spiegel , published March 10, 1965, accessed September 16, 2010
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SURNAME | Ekert redwood, Alice |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ekert-Rotholz, Alice Maria Augusta (full name); Ekert, Alice Maria Augusta (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th September 1900 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1995 |
Place of death | London |