Anna Elisabeth Rosmus

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Anna Rosmus, US veteran Mickey Dorsey (2006)

Anna Elisabeth Rosmus (* 1960 in Passau ), formerly Anja Rosmus-Wenninger , is a German writer .

Life

On the occasion of the essay competition Everyday Life in the Third Reich , Anna Rosmus, at the age of 20, dealt with the role of her hometown Passau during this time and how it dealt with the Passau Jews . In her research she encountered resistance. For three years she was not given access to the personal files of the NSDAP Lord Mayor Max Moosbauer until she fought for access to the files in court. It emerged that numerous leading personalities from Passau had been active National Socialists .

In 1983 she summarized the results of her research in the book Resistance and Persecution using the Example of Passau from 1933–1939 . She is also committed to the erection of suitable monuments for the victims of National Socialism, for example in Passau, where this endeavor was not officially supported at the time. In 1996 the memorial for the victims of National Socialism was finally erected directly on the river Inn.

The hostility and threats (up to death threats) from citizens of her homeland, whom she viewed as polluting the nest, caused her to leave her hometown in 1994 and to emigrate to the United States .

For more than 15 years, Anna Rosmus has been traveling the United States regularly with US World War II veterans. Every year she also organizes reunion meetings between veterans and locals in Germany and Austria . She deals particularly extensively with the 65th Infantry Division and General Stanley Eric Reinhart . In 1945, the year of the liberation of Germany and Austria, she dedicated an extensive illustrated book with her book “Walhalla Finale”. A register of the Bavarian and Upper Austrian towns represented in the illustrated book is online.

Today Anna E. Rosmus lives near Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on the US east coast. She is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

  • Resistance and persecution using the example of Passau 1933–1939 , Haller, Passau 1983, ISBN 3-88849-011-1 .
  • Exodus - in the shadow of grace . About the fate of the Passau Jews. Dorfmeister, Tittling 1988, ISBN 3-927454-01-X .
  • Robert Klein: A Jew looks back [with the help of Anna Elisabeth Rosmus], self-published by AE Rosmus, Passau [Söldenpeterweg 19c] 1991 (without ISBN ), parallel edition: A German Jew Looks Back (English).
  • Wintergreen. Displaced murders [about the murders of Russian prisoners of war in Passau under National Socialism], Labhard, Konstanz 1993, ISBN 3-926937-11-4 (with a foreword by Ignatz Bubis ).
  • Pocking. End and beginning . Jewish contemporary witnesses about the vanquished and the liberated. In: History series , volume 4. Labhard, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-926937-15-7 .
  • What I think [autobiography 1979–1995]. In: Goldmann-Tschenbuch. Volume 12616 Think outside the box ! Goldmann , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-442-12616-9 (English edition: Against the Stream . Growing up where Hitler used to live. Translated by Imogen von Tannenberg, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC 2002, ISBN 1-57003 -490-7 ).
  • Out of Passau . Of someone who set out to find home [autobiography]. In: Herder Spektrum , Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-451-26756-X (English edition: Out of Passau . Leaving a city Hitler called home. Translated by Imogen von Tannenberg, University of South Carolina Press , Columbia, SC 2004, ISBN 1-57003-508-3 ).
  • Valhalla Finale , The End of World War II - From Normandy to Linz and Prague. With many previously unpublished pictures from 1945. Verlag Doris Dorfmeister, Tittling 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810084-7-0 (German and English).
  • Ragnarok . Verlag Doris Dorfmeister, Tittling 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810084-8-7 (German and English).
  • 75 years of "Reichskristallnacht" . Samples-Stecher Verlag, Grafenau 2013, ISBN 978-3938401286
  • Hitler's Nibelung . Samples Verlag, Grafenau 2015, ISBN 978-3-938401-32-3

Awards

The terrible girl

  • 1986 ARD broadcast Felix Kuballa's 45-minute WDR documentary Von deutscher Toleranz .
  • In 1988 ARD showed Henning Stegmüller's 90-minute documentary from Radio Bremen Gegen den Strom about Anna Rosmus.
  • In 1990 ZDF broadcast Michael Verhoeven's documentary Das Mädchen und die Stadt about Anna Rosmus.

Michael Verhoeven's life story served as a model for his film The Terrible Girl in 1990 and earned him an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film in 1992 .

  • In 1994/95 Felix Kuballa (WDR) produced the documentary The Terrible Girl in America . ARD showed a 60-minute and a 45-minute variant.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Visits from former Jewish fellow citizens | PASSAU. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 65th Infantry Division
  3. ↑ Anna Rosmus and the tireless development work of Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart . Upper Austrian news . October 5, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Anna Rosmus: Finally in the Walhalla )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.passau-live.de
  5. ↑ Place register of the illustrated book Walhalla Finale
  6. ↑ Register of persons by Anna Rosmus, What I think.
  7. ↑ On Liberation, Veterans, and Deserved Recognition ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rosmus, Anna Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosmus-Wenninger, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau