Anna Krommer

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Anna Krommer (born March 31, 1924 in Dolný Kubín , Czechoslovakia ) is a German-speaking writer with US citizenship .

Life

Anna Krommer was born as the daughter of the journalist and artist Helmut Krommer (1891–1973) and Valerie, b. Weisz (1895–1948) was born, the mother's brother was the painter Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan. She grew up in Berlin , where her father worked for the SPD newspaper Vorwärts .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the family fled to the Czech Republic , where they attended the German Girls' College in Prague until March 1939, when Czechoslovakia was occupied and her father had to flee to Yugoslavia . In June 1939 she, her mother, her sister and she also fled to Great Britain ; all of the mother's relatives were murdered as Jews by the Germans in concentration camps. Krommer attended from 1941 to 1944 the arts and crafts school of the Guildford Technical College, Surrey , where the fled poet Theodor Kramer had also come to work as a librarian, who influenced her poetic development and followed her path. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 1945 with a degree in drawing and art history .

In 1946/47 she worked as a letter censor for the US military authority in Offenbach am Main and stayed in Israel in 1948 during the Palestine War . As a German speaker, she could no longer return to the ČSR, and her mother, who went to Theresienstadt as a social worker after the war , was also expelled from there. In 1951 she emigrated from Great Britain with her father to the USA, but went from Boston to a kibbutz in Israel for a year , where she wrote her first volume of poetry. From 1953 she lived in New York, from 1962 in Washington, in 1957 she became a US citizen.

Krommer has written articles for the newspapers Aufbau and New Yorker Staatszeitung and has published articles in the journals Literature and Criticism and Frankfurter Hefte .

Part of Krommer's estate (2 boxes) is in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Society in Vienna.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Karl Müller: Lemma Anna Krommer. In: Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Vienna 2000, p. 90f Abg
  • Siglinde Bolbecher: Anna Krommer. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 308f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 - International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-598-10087-6 p. 667
  • various authors with articles in the magazine of the Theodor Kramer Society : Zwischenwelt (formerly Mit der Ziehharmonika )
  • Katharina Hofbauer: "I cannot do without my correspondence. Because for me it is life." Theodor Kramer in correspondence with Anna Krommer and Gretl Oplatek (married Kilroy, born 1922). University of Vienna , unpublished master's thesis in 2007, when Austrian Library Network available

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Krommer illustrated, among other things, the book Working World of Technology by Richard Woldt (1926)
  2. ↑ Contents
  3. ↑ 1. Arrival in the rain, 2. You lie awake ..., 3. Hunger, 4. The asylum seeker
personal data
SURNAME Krommer, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dolny Kubin