Anna Joachimsthal-Schwabe

Anna Joachimsthal-Schwabe (born Anna Minna Schwabe July 8, 1892 in Varel ; died February 2, 1937 in Dresden or Berlin ) was a German poet . It shaped the Jewish literary scene in Dresden from the beginning of the 1920s.

Life

Anna Schwabe was the daughter of the Jewish businessman Robert Moses Schwabe, who ran a textile department store in Varel until 1916. Her mother Elisabetha Schwabe, née Landau, was the daughter of a Jewish banking family from Bingen . On November 3, 1913, she married the Jewish businessman Hans Joachimsthal, who came from Dresden and was born on June 21, 1886. After their marriage, the couple chose Dresden as their center of life, where their daughters Ruth and Erika were born in 1914 and 1916.

In Dresden she was active in the Jewish community, where her lyrical talent became known. Anna Joachimsthal-Schwabe shaped the Jewish literary scene in Dresden from the beginning of the 1920s: in 1922 she began to organize artistic evenings in her apartment at Bergstrasse 34 (later Bayreuther Strasse 34). She recited her own poems and created the opportunity for other young artists to introduce themselves publicly. These included u. a. Kurt Heynicke , Walter Georg Hartmann , Hans Carossa and Paula Ludwig . In 1931 she fell ill and had to restrict her public activities more and more, nevertheless there were these very well-attended public poets' evenings until the Nazis came to power.

She put her own writing talent in the background: Although she was repeatedly asked to publish a volume of poetry, and fans of her poetry made copies of copies, it was not until 1935 that a poem by her appeared in the "Gemeindeblatt der Israelitische Religionsgemeinde Dresden" for the first time. After that, her religiously oriented texts in particular appeared regularly in the community newspaper.

In 1934 she was an active member of the preparatory committee for the establishment of a Jewish school (together with Jenny Schaffer-Bernstein, among others ). She saw herself as a “religious Zionist” and supported the socially disadvantaged. Anna Joachimsthal-Schwabe died in 1937 at the age of 44. Some of her relatives had already emigrated to Palestine by this time.

Only shortly before the end of her life was the publication of a narrow volume with 65 poems in preparation. The book was finally published posthumously in 1937 by Philo-Verlag in Berlin.

Web links

• Biography ( memento from April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on juden-in-mittelachsen.de
• Poetry book in the DNB (digital version)
• Norbert Ahlers: Poems in the Shadow of Disease (Vareler Marginal Notes, August 22, 2016, on poetry by Ana Joachimsthal-Schwabes), online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Frerichs (Schloßmuseum Jever): A forgotten Jewish poet from Varel: Anna Joachimsthal-Schwabe (1892-1937). Online (there with details of the place of death Berlin), accessed on June 1, 2018.