Angela Nikoletti

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Angela Nikoletti (born May 31, 1905 in Margreid ; † October 30, 1930 in Kurtatsch ) was a South Tyrolean teacher. She is known for her commitment to the German school ( Katakombenschule ) at the time of fascism .

Angela Nikoletti's childhood was shaped by the First World War and her mother's illness. She spent a large part of her childhood with relatives, first in Kurtatsch and after the death of her mother (1920) in Terlan . There she helped with the housekeeping. Through frequent contact with children, she developed the desire to become a teacher. In 1922 she successfully attended the first class of the teacher training college in Zams . In the meantime, however, the fascists had seized power in the country, and when she wanted to return to Zams for second class after the summer vacation, she was refused entry. Being a student at a North Tyrolean school and the poem she wrote “Tirolerland”, which the rulers discovered by chance, were enough to make her - while still a minor - an enemy of the state.

Angela Nikoletti finished her training with some delay, and in July 1926 she received her teaching certificate.

Soon after her return she probably came into contact with the lawyer Josef Noldin and the teacher Rudolf Riedl. Canon Michael Gamper , with their support, had built up the German emergency school a few years earlier . "... Every hut, every house must become a schoolhouse, every room a schoolroom ..." was Gamper's urgent demand. Nikoletti, too, recognized the dangers of the times and committed himself to giving German lessons to the local children. Again and again she was intercepted, interrogated and severely threatened by the fascist police; nevertheless she did not stop gathering the children around her and teaching them German to read and write. Angela Nikoletti was harassed and detained by the authorities until her health collapsed. She died of a serious illness at the age of 25.

This is how she described one of the many interrogations: “Evening. Interrogation. I should confess everything. Who hires me, who pays me, from which families I teach the children, etc. ... I replied: If you are so curious, you should go and find it yourself. They found me too. They got no more out. (...) My aunts from Tramin wanted to bring me dinner. Both were thrown out the door with their food, under threats and insults ... At 11 o'clock in the morning they took me to the damp cellar. I leaned against the cold, damp wall until dawn. Tired, exhausted ... "

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SURNAME Nikoletti, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Margreid
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1930
Place of death Kurtatsch