Anne Day-Helveg

Anne Day-Helveg (born November 12, 1898 in Vienna ; † September 14, 1975 ) was an Austrian dancer , dance teacher and novelist . One of her novels was Liane, the girl from the jungle . It was filmed in 1956 and plays a not insignificant role in German film history . Day-Helveg's younger brother was the philosopher Karl Raimund Popper .

childhood

Anne Day-Helveg was born in Vienna as Anna ('Annie') Lydia Popper. Her Jewish parents , the respected lawyer Dr. Simon Siegmund C. Popper (1856–1932) and his wife Jenny Popper (née Schiff, 1864–1936) converted to Lutheranism two years after Anna was born . So she also became a Protestant. She grew up with her older sister Dora (1893–1930) and her younger brother Karl (1902–1994).

Life stations

Day-Helveg was married three times, twice in Vienna. She changed her name several times, three times through marriage (Gruner, Helveg, Lothringer) and several times through various pseudonyms under which she wrote. In Vienna she was known as a dancer and dance teacher under the name Annie Helveg. Later, living as a novelist in France and Switzerland , she called herself Anne Day, Anne Day-Helveg or Anne Day-Lothringer. As a result, their traces in history were almost lost.

Shortly after her mother's death, she fled the Nazis, without money or ID, from Austria to France. In 1941 she was accepted as a stateless Anna Gruner-Helveg in Geneva as a refugee. Karl Popper , her brother, who was hardly famous at the time, supported her with sums of money through the Red Cross during the war , although he himself was doing very badly in New Zealand . Anne became a Swiss citizen by marrying the Swiss writer Fred Lothringer . Fred and Anne lived together in Ascona . They both tried to make a living as writers. But their income remained meager, and often brother 'Karli', the now more and more famous Karl Popper, had to inject money. Anne Day-Helveg died in Ascona in 1975.

Anne's only major and quickly temporary success was the film adaptation of one of her manuscripts in 1956: Liane, the girl from the jungle . It helped the following book of the same name from 1958 to some sales. The film is about a female Tarzan and was superbly cast with Marion Michael , Hardy Krüger , Irène Galter , and Reggie Nalder . The young beauty Marion Michael appeared without breasts , and that was an absolute sensation at the time. Soon after the first performance, youth protection organizations like FSK took action. The age for which the film was released varied. At first, visitors were allowed to see him “from 10 years” (1956), then in 1957 “from 16”, 1974 “from 6” and 1990 “from 12”. It didn't hurt the film; it even suggested a sequel: Liane, the white slave based on Day-Helveg's novel Liane between the worlds .

Works

• Anne Day, Jacqueline or high-heeled shoes , Strasbourg-Schiltheim: Editions Du Rhin 1948.
• Anne Day-Helveg, Liane, the girl from the jungle , Bayreuth: Heros 1956.
• Anne Day-Helveg, Liana Between the Worlds , Bayreuth: Heros 1958.
• Anne Day, love burns like fire , Cologne: Marken 1965.
• Anne Day, Separated and yet united , jewel novel No. 879, Rastatt (Baden): Pabel 1967.
• Anne Day, Five Glass Coffins , Munich: Lenz 1974.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hacohen (2000), pp. 23-24, 63-65
2. ↑ Hacohen (2000), pp. 23-24.
3. ↑ Hacohen (2000), p. 325.
4. ^ Archive Genève, entry 'Gruner-Helveg'.
5. ↑ Hacohen (2000), p. 460.
6. ^ Karl Popper Collection, supplement 6-27, where 25 letters from the period 1951-1972 are archived.

swell

• Hacohen, MH (2000), Karl R. Popper. The Formative Years 1902-1945 , Cambridge University Press 2000.
• Miller, D. (1997), 'Sir Karl Raimund Popper', Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 1997 London 43: 367-409.
• Karl Popper Collection, University Library Klagenfurt / Austria, Supplement Box 6, No. 27.
• Archives d'État de Genève, CH 1211 Genève (Swiss), Rue de Hôtel-de-Ville 1, Personnes entegistrées à la frontière genevoise durant la Deuxième Guerre mondial.