Anna Elisabet Weirauch

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The scorpion Volume 3 (1931) was a dust jacket by Jean-Baptiste Greuze offered

Anna Elisabet Weirauch (born August 7, 1887 in Galatz , Kingdom of Romania , † December 21, 1970 in West Berlin ) was a German actress and writer .

Life

The daughter of the founder and director of the Romanian state bank moved to Berlin with her mother and her three sisters after her father's death in 1891. She attended a secondary school for girls and received private singing and acting lessons.

She made her debut in 1903 at the Deutsches Theater , where she had her first appearance in Shakespeare's A Winter Tale in a production by Max Reinhardt . From 1906 to 1914 she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater. In addition to the Reinhardt Theaters in Berlin, she played in Halle and Naumburg until the end of the First World War . At least once, namely in 1917 in the two-parter The Giant's Fist, she also appeared in a silent film .

After the war ended, she ended her career at the theater and devoted herself entirely to writing. She was best known for the trilogy of novels Der Skorpion (1919, 1921 and 1931), which was one of the first works in German-language literature to deal with the subject of lesbian love. This work was published in several translations in the USA between 1932 and 1975.

Weirauch, who lived with Helena Geisenhainer, a ten years younger Dutch woman, from the mid-1920s until her death, wrote a total of over 60 novels, which often appeared as sequels in various magazines and newspapers. She also remained active during the Nazi era , was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and published 21 novels in this era alone, focusing on the fate of women. However, she did not take up the topic of same-sex love again. Scorpio was on the list of harmful and undesirable literature . Her novel Das Rätsel Manuela was filmed in 1943 under the title Long live love .

Weirauch moved with her partner to Gastag in Upper Bavaria around 1933 and lived in Munich after the Second World War and again in West Berlin since 1961, where she and Geisenhainer lived in the Käte-Dorsch-Heim for former actresses. She was buried in a cemetery in Berlin-Reinickendorf.

Works

  • Faithful love and Wunderhold (Christmas fairy tale in 8 pictures) (Fontane around 1910)
  • Little Dagmar. Novel 1919, first in 1918 as a serial in the Berliner Tageblatt
  • The day of Artemis. Novellas 1919
  • The scorpion. A novel. First volume 1919
  • Sogno. The book of dreams. A 1919 novel
  • Anja. The story of an unhappy love. 1919
  • Conscience. Novel 1920
  • The glass world. Novel 1921
  • The lovers' garden. Novel 1921
  • Agony of Passion 1922
  • Ruth Meyer. An almost everyday story. Novel 1922
  • Falk and rocks. Theater novel 1923
  • Noble blood. Novel 1923
  • Nin van't Hell. Novel 1924
  • Trip to hell. Novel 1925
  • Tina and the dancer. Novel 1927
  • Unequal brothers. Novel 1928
  • Lord in his prime. Novel 1929
  • The Farrels. Novel 1929
  • The scorpion. A novel. Second volume 1930
  • Lotte. Novel 1930
  • Think about Oliver. Novel 1931
  • Carmen at the Panke. Novel 1931
  • The scorpion. A novel. Third volume 1931
  • Letters to Bareiro's hand. Novel 1932
  • Snake in paradise. Novel 1932
  • Mrs. Kern. Novel 1934
  • Secret about Petra. Novel 1934
  • The strange will. Novel 1934
  • Girl without fear. Novel 1935
  • House in the Veenestraat. Novel 1935
  • Young man with motorcycle. Novel 1935
  • Mijnheer Corremans and his daughters. Novel 1936
  • Café Edelweiss. Novel 1936
  • The great violinist. Novel 1937
  • Iduna on vacation. Novel 1937
  • Martina is coming of age. Novel 1937
  • Riddle Manuela. Novel 1938
  • Donata and the lucky ones. 1940 novel
  • The crucial hour. 1940 novel
  • The story with Genia. Novel 1941
  • The three Hahnemann sisters. Novel 1941
  • Once the hour comes. Novel 1942
  • Goodbye to Java. Novel 1949
  • Fates in the Coco-Bar. Novel 1949
  • The ship in the bottle. Children's book 1951
  • Karin and Kathi. Children's book 1954
  • The last days before the wedding. 1955 novel
  • Three months, three weeks and three days. 1957 novel
  • Claudia's big case. 1957 novel
  • The man is mine. 1958 novel
  • And it started out so magically. 1959 novel
  • The Vehsemeyer case. 1959 novel
  • Life begins at 21. 1959 novel
  • The strange Herr Sörrensen. 1959 novel
  • Dance for till. 1960 novel
  • Assault at Valentin. 1960 novel
  • The mysterious inheritance. 1961 novel
  • Bella and Bellinda. 1961 novel
  • Tina Zinnober and the moated castle. 1961 novel
  • The Flimfanny. 1962 novel
  • A life on the edge. Novel 1965
  • Instead of the announced performance. Novel 1965

Secondary literature

  • Michael Fisch : The misfortune of an unhappy love: Anna Elisabet Weirauch's novel "The Scorpion". In: I am my own women's movement. Women's views from the history of a big city. Published by the Schöneberg District Office / Schöneberg Art Office. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1991, pp. 93–95. ISBN 3-926175-99-0
  • Michael Fisch, Esther Matuszewski, Nicole Schumacher: Unhappiness of an unhappy love. Manuscript for the reading from "Skorpion" on June 25, 1991 in the Schöneberg City Library (unpublished).
  • Michael Fisch: About friendship and love among women. Anna Elisabet Weirauch's novel "The Scorpion". In: Siegessäule (Berlin) October 1991, pp. 12–13.
  • Michael Fisch: Afterword, catalog raisonné, bibliography and editorial report. In: Anna Elisabet Weirauch: The Scorpion. Novel. First volume. Edited and with an afterword by Michael Fisch. Frankfurt am Main and Berlin: Ullstein 1993, pp. 214-271. ISBN 3-548-30307-2
  • Michael Fisch: Why shouldn't one love the dead? Memory of the forgotten actress and writer Anna Elisabet Weirauch. In: Filmklappe 2 (1996) pp. 16-17.
  • Jutta Hinz : From the bad old days. Forgotten novel about a lesbian love. The Scorpion by Anna Elisabet Weirauch. In: Der Tagesspiegel from June 27, 1991.
  • Claudia Schoppmann : The novel "The Scorpion" by Anna Elisabet Weirauch. An examination of the love of women in the Weimar Republic. Berlin: Free University 1983 (thesis).
  • Claudia Schoppmann: A lesbian novel from the Weimar period: The Scorpion. In: Eldorado. Homosexual women and men in Berlin 1850–1950. History, everyday life and culture. Berlin: Frölich and Kaufmann 1984, pp. 197–199. ISBN 3-88725-068-0
  • Claudia Schoppmann: The Scorpion. Love of women in the Weimar Republic. Hamburg: Spring Awakening 1992. ISBN 3-896560-38-7

Filmography

  • 1917: The giant's fist
  • 1921: Little Dagmar
  • 1944: Long live love

Web links

Commons : Anna Elisabet Weirauch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Representation according to the Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . According to the website given, she first played in Halle and Hamburg and made her debut in Berlin in 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Weirauch, Anna Elisabet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Galatz
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1970
Place of death West Berlin