Carry curlew

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Karoline "Carry" Brachvogel , b. Karoline Hellmann (born June 16, 1864 in Munich ; died November 20, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German writer .

Life

Karoline Brachvogel was the daughter of the wealthy Munich businessman Heinrich Hellmann and his wife Zerlinda Karl-Hellmann, who was 20 years his junior. The family initially lived on Residenzstrasse and later on Brienner Strasse . Together with her brother Siegmund Hellmann (1872–1942), Karoline, called Carry, grew up in a liberal, culturally interested Jewry environment . She felt a tendency to write at an early age, but her own critical sense kept her from literary production that was too early. After an upbringing as a major daughter , she married the Roman Catholic journalist Wolfgang Brachvogel (1854-1892), then editor of the Münchner Neue Nachrichten , in 1887 , without converting to Christianity herself. In 1888 a daughter, Feodora, was born who grew up without religion. The son Heinz-Udo , born a year later, was baptized.

Beginnings as a writer

In 1892 Curlew's husband died in an accident. The young widow and single mother refused to enter into a provision marriage and preferred to remain independent. She remembered her inclination to write. She wrote the play Past , which was performed in Frankfurt am Main and Munich in 1894. The first novel everyday man was published by the renowned S. Fischer Verlag through the mediation of Ernst von Wolzogens . When the publication of the Byzantine novel The Successor was rejected by the publisher, she accepted the offer of the Viennese time to write feature pages. She did so with some success and was soon able to return to Munich as a columnist.

In the following years she published numerous novels as well as short stories, books for young people and biographies, mainly of historically important women. She was extremely successful with her books on Madame de Pompadour .

Participation in the women's movement and support for the rights of women who write

Since 1903 Brachvogel was a member of the "Association for Women's Interests". The association founded by Ika Freudenberg in 1894 under the name “Society for the Promotion of Intellectual Interests of Women” belonged to the bourgeois women's movement, which kept its distance from more radical positions such as those represented by Anita Augspurg . The male members of the association also included Rainer Maria Rilke and Ernst von Wolhaben . After the death of Ika Freudenberg, Luise Kiesselbach took over the management of the association in 1912. In the same year Brachvogel gave the lecture “Hebbel and the modern woman” there, in which she contrasts the image of women in the German classical period with the new type of self-determined woman. In 1913 she was elected to the board of the association. In her novel “The Great Pagoda”, Brachvogel had thematized the miserable working conditions of stage actresses. In order to improve their situation, she founded a “Commission for Stage Affairs” in the “Association for Women's Interests”.

The situation of women who write traditionally poorly or not at all was also to be improved through mutual solidarity support: In 1913 Brachvogel founded the “ Association of Munich Writers ” together with Emma Haushofer-Merk (1854–1925) , the aim of which was to provide adequate wages for writers Women enforce. The members had to undertake to work only for appropriate payment. Although there had been associations of writing women before, this association was unique in that it was not a reading group , but wanted to be a union-like organization. Prominent members were, for example, Ricarda Huch and Annette Kolb .

The successful writer, whose salon was a center of the city's cultural life in the 1920s, was celebrated on her 60th birthday in 1924. Lord Mayor Karl Scharnagl congratulated the "Association of Munich Writers" gave a lavish party. Emma Haushofer-Merk died in 1925; Carry Brachvogel took over the chairmanship of the association.

Persecution by the Nazi dictatorship and death

A few years later, only one thing mattered: that the chairwoman was Jewish. In 1933, the association withdrew the chairmanship in advance obedience: some members met on May 3rd and declared the resignation of the chairwoman and co-founder without informing them. On October 4, 1933, the general meeting resolved to dissolve the association. Carry Brachvogel was banned from publishing. Her brother, who was a university professor, had also lost work and income under the Civil Service Restoration Act . For the following years he lived in seclusion with his sister in her apartment at Herzogstrasse 55.

Carry Brachvogel was deported to Theresienstadt on July 23, 1942 with Transport II / 18 . The then 78-year-old was probably unable to counter the disastrous sanitary conditions in the concentration camp. On November 20, 1942, she died in Theresienstadt, according to the death certificate, of old age. Her brother Siegmund, who had come to Theresienstadt on the same transport, died a few days later, on December 7, 1942.

Carry Brachvogel's literary work was long forgotten. Her works have been reissued or reprinted since 2013. In 2013, Bavarian Television made a documentary about Carry Brachvogel.

Honors

Since 1992 the “Carry-Brachvogel-Salon” in the Seidlvilla has been a reminder of the once well-known Munich writer.

By a city council resolution of June 14, 2012, a street in Munich was named after her.

Works

  • Everyday people. Novel. S. Fischer, Berlin 1895. New edition, ed. and with an after. by Ingvild Richardsen , Allitera Verlag, Munich 2013
  • The harvest day and other things. Novellas. S. Fischer, Berlin 1897
  • The resurrected. Caesar legend. S. Fischer, Berlin 1900
  • The great pagoda. Novel. S. Fischer, Berlin 1901
  • (Co-author :) The coming man. Drama. 1901
  • The successor. A novel from Byzantium. 1902
  • The heirs. Novel from New Germany. Wiegand, Leipzig 1904
  • The Marquise de Pompadour. 1905
  • Catherine II of Russia. Rothbarth, Leipzig 1906, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • Your poets and other short stories. Hillger, Berlin 1906
  • The renegade. Novel. 1907
  • Madame Mère. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1909
  • The fight for the man. Novel. 2 vols. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1910
  • Maria Theresa. Image of life. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1911 [1]
  • Comedians. Novellas. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1911
  • Hebbel and the modern woman. Lecture. Steinicke, Munich 1912
  • The kings and the carters. Novel. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1912, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • Collected feature sections. Senger, Munich 1913
  • Autumn haunt. Novel. 1914
  • The great juggler. A novel from Venice. Ullstein, Berlin + Wien 1915, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • The heart in the south. Novel. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1916
  • Sword magic. Novel. J. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1917, new edition Allitera Verlag 2014
  • The happiness of the earth. Novel. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1919, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • Eva in politics. A book about the political activity of women. Dürr & Weber, Leipzig 1920 [2] , reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • Fantastic stories and legends. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1920, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • The gramophone. Narrative. 1920
  • The legacy of the Pompadour. 1921
  • The mountain of mothers. Novel. Engelhorns Nachf., Stuttgart 1922, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • White gold. A strange but true story. Youth book. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1923, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • In the white and blue land. Bavarian pictures. Feature sections. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1923, new edition Allitera Verlag, Munich 2013
  • The Queen's Pioneer. Youth book. 1925
  • The silver mountain. 1925
  • The daughter of Marie Antoinette, a standard bearer of legitimacy. 1925
  • Robespierre. K. König, Vienna 1925
  • The actress. Novel. 1927
  • The great fire. Historical novel. Die Buchgemeinde, Berlin 1929, reprint of the original, Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013
  • Two marriages. Novel. 1931
  • The murder on the border. Detective novel. 1932

literature

  • Ingvild Richardsen : “Passionate hearts, fiery souls”. How women changed the world. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397457-7 , p. 148 ff, p. 197 ff.
  • Judith Ritter: The Munich writer Carry Brachvogel. Literary woman, salon lady, women's rights activist. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016.
  • Michaela Karl : Carry Brachvogel: The women's rights activist. In: Bavarian Amazons - 12 portraits. Pustet, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7917-1868-1 , pp. 17–31.
  • Monika Meister : Do not love to the point of self-destruction. The writer Carry Curlew. Radio contribution in Bavaria 2 on November 24, 1991. Series “Land und Menschen”.
  • Michaela Metz: a strong woman. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung January 20, 2014, p. R20 (on the occasion of the broadcast of the documentary on Bavarian television on the same day).
  • Curlew, Carry. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 366-370.
  • Working group women's life in Bavaria: Carry Brachvogel. In: Women's life in Munich. Reader on the history of everyday life in Munich. Ed. from the state capital Munich. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927984-17-5 , pp. 233-240.
  • Renate Heuer : Carry Brachvogel (1864–1942), writer. In: M. Treml, W. Weigand (Hrsg.): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria - curriculum vitae (= publ. Bavarian history and culture, no. 18). Munich 1988, pp. 211-216.
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Volume 3. Munich 2001.

Web links

Wikisource: Carry Curlew  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaela Metz: Like a lily in the field. Carry Brachvogel's debut novel from 1895 about the fate of a woman in Munich is back. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 10, 2014, p. 14.
  2. ^ Allitera Verlag: Aus is und gar is: taverns, theaters, cafés, salons and other lost places of Munich sociability . Original edition. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96233-023-1 .
  3. ↑ http://holocaust.cz/de/document/DOCUMENT.ITI.10668 ( Memento from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Broadcast Bavarian TV January 20, 2014 ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Carry-Brachvogel-Straße , muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Curlew, Carry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curlew, Karoline; Hellmann, Karoline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp