Charlotte house manager

Charlotte Kathinka Elise House manager , née Westermann , z. T. also indicated as house manager-Westermann (born October 13, 1883 in Nuremberg ; † 1954 ) was a German writer.

Charlotte Westermann was a daughter of the Nuremberg businessman Carl Westermann and his wife Elise. After attending school, shortly after the turn of the century, as a young woman, she began to work as a fiction writer. In addition to numerous essays and short stories, she published a novel. During the First World War, she worked in the Supreme Army Command from 1915 to 1918. At that time she shifted the focus of her work away from fiction and into the daily journalistic area. In the first post-war period she worked in a national advertising department. She later got a job as an editor in the novel editing department of Knorr & Hirth-Verlag in Munich .

On December 12, 1921, Westermann married the journalist Leo Hausleiter . From then on she published under the names Hausleiter and Hausleiter-Westermann. The sons Leo Cecil Laurenz Karl Walter (born July 28, 1923 in Munich; † August 29, 1943 near Charkow) and Leo Cornelis August Peter Giselher Hermann (born April 19, 1925) resulted from the marriage. Two other children, a son and a daughter, who were born in 1922, died in their first year of life.

Since December 1, 1932, house manager belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 1.411.504). In 1933 she also became a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

Since 1936 she lived in Hamburg, where her husband took over the management of the world economic archive as director that year.

Fonts

• Boys' letters. Fifteen year old Astorre Manfredi to seventeen year old Francesco Gonzaga , 1907.
• Women's work in war , 1917.

As editor:

• Letters of love from three centuries of German past. Selection and contemporary history , 1913.

literature

• Lutz Hagestest (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical handbook , Vol. XV, 2010, pp. 216f.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Vol. 46, 1932, p. 526.

Web links

• Literature by and about Charlotte Hausleiter in the catalog of the German National Library