Christa Anita Brück

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Christa Anita Brück , pseudonym for Christa Jaab , later married. Christa Larisch , (born June 9, 1899 in Liegnitz , † February 22, 1958 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German writer.

life and work

Christa Jaab was the daughter of a postal worker. After attending a high school and commercial training, she worked as a stenographer and secretary in Berlin for ten years. As early as 1920/21 she wrote articles for tomorrow. East Prussian weekly magazine . In 1928 she was presented on the radio as an "East Prussian writer". In 1932 her article Die Stenotypistin überm Average appeared in a company newspaper .

In 1934 she married the bank manager Günther Ladisch.

Under her author's name, she wrote four novels that focus on the situation of female employees at the end of the Weimar Republic . The first, Fates Behind Typewriters , received a lot of attention when it appeared and was translated into several languages. The sociologist Siegfried Kracauer wrote approving reviews and notes . In contrast, the then Association of Female Commercial and Office Workers (VWA) criticized the book because of its "lack of individual willingness to make sacrifices and the unvarnished representation of the office reality". 1933 after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists up the book was black list of harmful and unwanted literature added.

Christa Anita Brück's second novel ( A Girl with Procuration ) deals with the situation of small bank employees during the German banking crisis in 1931 . A feature film by Arzén von Cserépy was made in 1934 based on the book .

The crime story The Judge of Memel is set against the background of the Lithuanian-German conflicts in what was then Memelland . Thematically, Die Avalanche ties in with Brück's first novel. Another book ( Who else speaks to Luedemann? ) Has not been published and seems to be lost.

Works

  • Fates behind typewriters . Novel. 1st edition. Sieben - Rods - Verlag und Druckereigesellschaft, Berlin 1930. (Further editions: 6th – 15th thousand, 16th – 18th thousand, 19th – 23rd thousand 1931)
    • Likteni pie rakstämmãmmaŝĩnãm (Romanãns. Tulk. Zelma Kroders). Grãmatu Draugs, Rigã 1931. (Vertǐgu grãmatu virkne, "Grãmatu Draugs" Vol. 124) (Latvian)
    • Mademoiselle Brückner dactylo . Novel. Trad. de l´allemand par Raymond Henry (Harry d´ Erlanger). Albin Michel, Paris 1950. (2nd mille 1950)
    • Fates behind typewriters . New edition. Publishing house autonomy and chaos. Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-923211-96-8 pdf
  • A girl with power of attorney . Novel. 1st edition. Seven Rods Publishing House, Berlin 1932.
    • Signorina con procura . Mondadori, Milano 1934. (Translator Luigi Emery)
    • A girl with power of attorney . New edition. Publishing house autonomy and chaos. Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-945980-02-6 pdf
  • The judge of Memel . Novel. 1st edition. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1933. (Ullstein - Books, NF7)
  • The avalanche . Novel. Deutscher Verlag, Berlin 1941. (Uhlenbücher, vol. 191) (first published under the title: Fräulein, please write in the magazine Die Koralle )

literature

  • Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , pp. 62f.
  • Gisela Brinker-Gabler / Karola Ludwig / Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800 - 1945 . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1986 ISBN 3-423-03282-0
  • Angelika Döpper-Henrich: "... it was a deceptive time in between": Writers of the Weimar Republic and their relationship to the socio-political changes of their time. "Dissertation: Univ. Press Kassel 2004 ISBN 3-89958-052-4
  • Lydia Marhoff: Between defense and adaptation. Strategies for processing reality in the texts of non-fascist young women authors from 1930-1945 . Dissertation: WVB Berlin 2002 ISBN 978-3-932089-90-9
  • Sara Kristina Farner Budarz: Inside the city: Gender and the production of interior space in Weimar Republic German literature, 1929-1933 . Dissertation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Jaab, an East Prussian writer. Unpunctual / Ostmarken Rundfunk AG Koenigsberg, October 22, 1928 [1]
  2. ↑ The work. United Stahlwerke AG Monthly Bulletin March 12, 1932, p. 131
  3. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) , 2nd edition, Bran-Einslin; Munich 2005, p. 111
  4. ^ Siegfrid Kracauer: Review of fates behind typewriters : Frankfurter Zeitung of July 6, 1930 [2]
  5. ^ Siegfried Kracauer: Mädchen im Beruf , in: Der Cross Section 12.4 (April 1932, pages 238–242); reprinted in: Ders: Schriften Volume 5,3 (Frankfurt / M. 1990, page 60 ff.).
  6. ↑ Kristine von Soden / Maruta Schmidt (ed.): New women. The twenties . Berlin 1988, p. 29
  7. ↑ "Black List" by Dr. Wolfgang Herrmann, May 16, 1933 [3]
  8. ↑ A girl with power of attorney Film 1934 [4]
  9. ↑ See Anne-M. Wallrath-Janssen: The publisher H. Goverts in the Third Reich , Munich 2007, page 108, footnote 285

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personal data
SURNAME Brück, Christa Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaab, Christa; Larisch, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1958
Place of death Königstein im Taunus