Alice Penkala

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Rosa Alice Penkala (born February 8, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Alice Krausz ; died May 19, 1988 in Antibes ) was an emigrated Austrian journalist and writer.

Life

Alice Krausz was a daughter of the doctor Sigmund Krauss , who also wrote science fiction novels. Her sister Edith Krausz, who was two years younger than her, was also active in literature. Her father had his doctor's practice in Baden near Vienna , where she grew up and attended the Lyceum and the Realgymnasium. From 1919 she studied law at the University of Vienna . At the same time, she wrote poems, short stories and glosses under various pseudonyms , which she published in the Viennese satirical magazines Faun and Die Muskete . From 1923 she also wrote for the Viennese newspaper Der Tag . She completed her law degree in 1925, the subsequent time as a law student “healed” her career aspiration and she switched to journalism. From 1926 she wrote court reports for the newspaper Der Abend . Between 1929 and 1931 she worked in Berlin for Bruno Frei for the communist newspaper Berlin am Morgen in the same department. Under the pseudonym Robert Anton, Glöckner-Verlag published her first detective novel Clues in 1930 . From 1933, she and her sister Edith and Ernst Procopovici set up the “Austrian Newspaper Service”, which supplied newspaper editors with current court reports.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, sister Edith Krausz managed to emigrate to England. Alice Krausz married her partner Richard Charas for pragmatic reasons. In April 1939 they boarded the passenger ship Cap Norte in Bremerhaven . Despite valid papers for entry to Paraguay , they were not allowed to leave the ship in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and could only enter land on the return journey in Boulogne . The aid organization HICEM organized a transfer for them to the International Zone in Tangier , where Richard Charas died in 1941. Alice Charas got by in Tangier doing odd jobs and as a fortune teller . In 1943 she married the stateless Pole Stany Penkala.

Alice Penkala settled in Tourrettes-sur-Loup near Nice after the end of the war in 1946 . Your literary agent Josef Kalmer managed to get a large number of short stories and some serial novels in Austrian newspapers. Some novels were only published as serial novels, others had very high book editions. Kalmer also set the guidelines for the style of her “Riviera novels”: a little crime, Parisian bohemian milieu and a lot of sex, under titles like Roses from Montecarlo , Do you like it in Nice , Summer in Saint-Tropez , The Lovers of Cagnes , The happiness of Yvette Durand , mainly under the author's name Anneliese Meinert. Kalmer, on the other hand, was unable to sell her war novels to the publishers because the reading public in Austria and Germany did not want to be reminded of the brown past. Penkala wrote around 40 novels and around 1,000 short stories. She also worked as a literary translator.

In 1958 she received Austrian citizenship again and visited Vienna and Baden for the first time, but stayed on the Cote d'Azur , where she also died. The literary scholar Christa Scheuer-Weyl managed her estate.

Pseudonym
Sebastian Abendstern; Robert Anton; Ali baby; Berta Bruckner; Anneliese Meinert; Alois Piringer; Rak; Raker; Sebastian; Whale; Wastl.

Works (selection)

  • Marion, the riddle of sin . Berlin: Delta-Verlag, 1930
  • Madame Leroux . 1959
  • Traveling salesman . 1959
  • Homesick for somewhere else . 1960
  • Beloved Therese . 1965
  • Sylvia Sark : Good luck on Warramunga . Alice Penkala in Romanian. Hamburg: German literature publisher Melchert, 1966
  • The silver mask . 1966
  • The life of Queen Christine of Sweden . 1966
  • Anna and the windmills. Fate in confused times . 1967 autobiographical novel.
  • Summer in Saint-Tropez . 1968
  • The house of the dormouse . 1970
  • Paris at 20 marbles . Munich: Schneekluth, 1971
  • Holidays prescribed by prescription . Munich: Schneekluth, 1974
  • Ghost on vacation . Munich: Schneekluth, 1977
  • The wooden Madonna . Munich: Schneekluth, 1978
  • Chocolate for the Africa Corps . Novel. Graz: CLIO, 2016 ( posthumous )
  • Alice Penkala: Working and Surviving in Tangier . In: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (ed.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Clio, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 131f.
  • Alice Penkala: City of Peace , in: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (ed.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Clio, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 133f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimo Halbrainer: Alice Penkala , 2014, p. 129
  2. ↑ Heimo Halbrainer: Alice Penkala , 2014, p. 130
personal data
SURNAME Penkala, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krausz, Alice Rosa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1988
Place of death Antibes