Alice Schwarz-Gardos

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Alice Schwarz-Gardos ( Alice Schwarz , actually: Gardos ; born August 31, 1915 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died August 14, 2007 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli journalist and author .

Alice Schwarz-Gardos in the editorial office of the daily newspaper "Israel-Nachrichten", 2006

Life

Origin and youth

Alice Schwarz-Gardos was born in Vienna; the family roots reached into today's Slovakia and Hungary. The father came from Neutra and came to Vienna as a little boy. Her mother came from a large family, to whose descendants u. a. Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx belonged. An ancestor of this family, Simon Michel (1656–1719) from Preßburg, therefore also called Simon Michael Preßburg, was an imperial “coin Jew” and court factor for Emperors Leopold I and Joseph I. A cousin of Alice Schwarz-Gardos was the Austrian writer and Journalist Bruno Frei .

At the end of the 1920s, Alice Schwarz-Gardos moved with her family from Vienna to Preßburg ( Bratislava ), where her maternal grandparents lived. There she attended the German elementary school and the traditional German grammar school . After graduating from high school, the talented student began studying medicine at Comenius University . After four semesters, she had to break it off due to the increasingly threatening circumstances in the Slovak state .

The flight to Palestine and the beginning of the journalistic career

At the end of 1939, an adventurous and life-threatening escape began for her and her parents. In 1940 Alice Schwarz-Gardos arrived in Palestine after a four-month journey across southern Europe and the Mediterranean , as one of 2,000 "illegal" passengers on the steamer Sacharia . From 1940 to 1942 she worked in various professions. Employment as a secretary in the Royal Navy (1942–1949) meant a social advancement . In 1949 she visited Europe again for the first time. She had been invited to Vienna by her cousin Bruno Frei, who had returned from exile in Mexico, and spent three months there as “a kind of press officer at the Jewish Agency ”. This started her career as a journalist.

Reporter and editor-in-chief of Israel News

Since autumn 1949 Alice Schwarz has been writing for the German-language daily newspaper Yedioth Hayom , which was published in 1936 by a lawyer named Dr. Friedrich Reichenstein, who emigrated from the Rhineland to Palestine in 1935, was founded in Tel Aviv.

In 1962 she switched to the second major German daily newspaper, the Israel-Nachrichten , which was founded in Palestine in 1935 by Siegfried Blumenthal, who immigrated from Berlin. At first the paper appeared hectographed and stapled as Blumenthal's Latest News , then mutated under the title Yedioth Chadaschot (Latest News) into a real newspaper with considerable circulation (in the 1950s the newspaper was one of the most widely distributed newspapers in Israel) and was called from 1974 to on her recruitment in 2011, Chadashot Israel (Israel News). Alice Schwarz initially worked as a reporter in the Haifa local editorial team. She was active in all journalistic fields: she wrote glosses, commentaries, delivered news, stories and reports, extensive political analyzes, portraits of important German-speaking Israelis, series of court reports and conducted numerous interviews.

From 1975 until her death she was editor-in-chief of Israel Nachrichten and for a long time the oldest acting editor-in-chief worldwide. In her professional career spanning more than 50 years, she has written more than 5,000 articles.

She also wrote occasionally for other Israeli newspapers such as Maariw and was a correspondent for several European newspapers and magazines, among others. a. the Tagesspiegel , and for the Argentinische Tageblatt published in Buenos Aires . She was a member of the Association of German-Language Writers in Israel (VdSI) from 1993 until it was dissolved in March 2005.

Alice Schwarz-Gardos died on August 14, 2007 in Tel Aviv. She bequeathed her estate to the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rechovot . The Institute for Molecular Cell Biology uses these funds to research the chromosome set of melanomas.

Books

As an author

  • Novellas , 1947
  • Ships without anchor , 1960 (novel)
  • Reckoning , 1962 (novel)
  • Temptation in Nazareth , 1963 (novel)
  • Joel and Jael , 1963 (book for young people)
  • Decision in the Jordan Valley , 1965
  • Women in Israel. Emancipation has many faces. A report in résumés . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1979, ISBN 3-451-07742-6 .
  • Paradise with imperfections: this is how you live in Israel . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1982, ISBN 3-451-07944-5 .
  • From Vienna to Tel Aviv: The Path of a Journalist . Verlag Bleicher, Gerlingen 1992, ISBN 3-88350-717-2 .
  • together with Erhard R. Wiehn: Contemporary witnesses from Israel: Collected articles by the editor-in-chief of "Israel Nachrichten" . Hartung-Gorre publishing house, Konstanz 2006, ISBN 3-86628-096-3 .
  • together with Erhard R. Wiehn: Further contemporary testimonies from Israel: Collected articles by the editor-in-chief of "Israel Nachrichten" . Hartung-Gorre publishing house, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 3-86628-134-X .

As editor

  • Hill of Spring: German-language authors tell Israeli stories , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-451-20305-7 .
  • Home is elsewhere: German writers in Israel. Stories and poems , Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-451-08064-8 .

Awards

  • 1982: Award of the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1993: Awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
  • 1995: Awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

  • Evelyn Adunka : Alice Schwarz-Gardos died . In: Zwischenwelt. Journal for the Culture of Exile and Resistance , ISSN  1606-4321 , Vol. 24, No. 1/2 (October 2007), pp. 39-40.
  • Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 244f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
  • Gabriele von Glasenapp : Black-Gardos, Alice. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 458f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eran Laor: Gone and Erased. Memories of Slovak-Hungarian Judaism . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-421-01601-1 , p. 150.
  2. ↑ a b Sabine Brandes: Israel's German Voice , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  3. ^ A b Paul Tischler: From Vienna to Tel Aviv: The journalist and writer Alice Schwarz-Gardos , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Jan Rübel: A house full of junkies , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ Via the Israel Nachrichten newspaper , accessed January 26, 2017.
  6. ^ The German-language media in Israel , accessed on January 26, 2017.
  7. ^ Weizmann Institute; Melanoma mutation , accessed February 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Black Gardos, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2007
Place of death Tel Aviv