Anna Ditzen

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Anna Margarete Ditzen , nickname: Suse (* March 12, 1901 in Geestemünde as Anna Margarete Issel ; † August 8, 1990 in Feldberg ) was the first wife of the writer Hans Fallada (Rudolf Ditzen) and the caretaker of his estate .

Life

Anna Ditzen and Hans Fallada met on October 13, 1928 in their parents' apartment on Eiffestrasse in Hamburg , where Hans Fallada was sublet. They married on April 5, 1929 in Hamburg. Ditzen lived with her husband in Neumünster , Berlin , Neuenhagen near Berlin , Berkenbrück and from 1933 in Carwitz . The couple had 2 sons, Ulrich, called Uli, (born 1930) and Achim (born 1940), and their twin daughters (born 1933) Edith, who died immediately after giving birth, and Lore, who succumbed to sepsis in 1951.

In the novel Little Man - What Now? she was portrayed by her husband as Pinneberg's wife ("Lammchen"). It was undisputedly the mainstay in Fallada's life - it enabled him to have his most productive years: "It made me what I have become, it taught someone who had been lost to work again, and a hopeless person how to hope," said Fallada himself.

The house in Carwitz

Because of ongoing problems, etc. a. Because of Fallada's alcoholism , the marriage was divorced on July 5, 1944. After the divorce , they both still lived together on the Carwitzer estate. In August 1944, Fallada shot in a drunken state on his wife and was therefore in the forensic unit of the State Institute Neustrelitz-Strelitz admitted for observation. The charges of attempted murder were withdrawn due to a lack of sanity .

Anna Ditzen, who together with the children owned the house and farm in Carwitz, continued to live there after the final separation from Fallada. a. She looked after Fallada's mother Elisabeth until her death in 1951.

She received only a small pension from the royalties on the Fallada books and ran agriculture for a living and took in vacationers. After selling the property to Kinderbuchverlag Berlin in 1965, she moved to nearby Feldberg, where she died in 1990.

The son Ulrich Ditzen (1930-2013) published in 2004 from his correspondence with his father and in 2007 from his parents' correspondence in the Aufbau-Verlag .

literature

  • Werner Liersch : Hans Fallada. His big little life; Biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-13675-9 (reprint of the Berlin 1981 edition).
  • Hans Fallada, Anna Ditzen: When you are gone, everything is only half. Correspondence of a marriage. Edited by Ulrich Ditzen; Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2007
  • Ulrike Edschmid : This side of the desk. Life stories of women of men who write ; Luchterhand Literaturverlag , 1990; ISBN 978-3630619088 . Portrayed are Pia Kipphardt, Anna Ditzen (Fallada), Hildegard Bronnen, Renate Bronnen, Liselotte Zoff, Katharina Leithäuser, Irene Kreuder
  • "I would live it that way again". On the 100th birthday of Anna Ditzen , edited by Manfred Kuhnke, Hans Fallada Society, 2001
  • Sabine Lange : Between exclusion and appropriation. Hans Fallada and the collective memory of the GDR. In: Carsten Gansel : Memory and literature in the “closed societies” of real socialism between 1945 and 1989. V&R Unipress, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Fallada: At home today , 1943
  2. ↑ Jenny William In: More life than one, biography of Hans Fallada . Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-7089-8 , p. 315 ff.
  3. ^ Chronicle of JA Neustrelitz ( Memento from July 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Official website of JA Neustrelitz (March 30, 2011) .
  4. ↑ Fallada: Morgens Kognak Der Spiegel 21/1963 of May 22, 1963, pp. 70–76
  5. ↑ Peter Walther; Gunnar Müller-Waldeck (Ed.): Hans Fallada. The biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03669-0
personal data
SURNAME Ditzen, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Issel, Anna Margarete (maiden name); Ditzen, Anna Margarete (complete marriage); Fallada, Anna (wrong name form); Ditzen, Suse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife and estate administrator Hans Falladas
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1990
Place of death Feldberg