Cordelia Edvardson

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Stumbling stone in front of the house at Eichkatzweg 33 in Berlin-Westend

Cordelia Maria Edvardson (born January 1, 1929 in Munich ; died October 29, 2012 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish-Israeli journalist and writer.

Life

Edvardson was born in Munich in 1929 as the illegitimate daughter of the German writer Elisabeth Langgässer and the constitutional lawyer Hermann Heller . She grew up with her mother, grandmother and an uncle in Berlin until 1943, initially in Siemensstadt , and after her mother's wedding in 1935 in the Eichkamp estate . In 1943, Elisabeth Langgässer attempted to circumvent the National Socialists' racial laws by having her daughter adopted by a Spanish couple. From then on, the child was named Cordelia Garcia-Scouvart. However, the Gestapo threatened Cordelia to stalk her mother if she were not ready to take on dual citizenship, which again made her subject to the applicable laws. In March 1944 she was deported to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz , where she was given the prisoner number A3709. She initially worked in the light bulb production, later as a typist, among others for Joseph Mengele . For him she kept lists, sorted names, completed file boxes.

In 1945 she witnessed the liberation and was taken to Sweden on a “ white bus ”, where she lived until 1974 and worked as a journalist. It wasn't until a year after the war ended that her mother found out that Cordelia had survived. It wasn't until 1949 that they met again for the first time, shortly before their mother's death.

Edvardson moved to Israel during the Yom Kippur War . From 1977 to 2006 she was the Svenska Dagbladet correspondent in Israel. In autumn 2006 she moved back to Stockholm.

She wrote the autobiographical books Burned Child Seeks Fire and Putting the World Together and the collection of poems, Jerusalem's Smile . The books first appeared in Swedish and were soon translated; Edvardson received the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize for Burned Child Seeks Fire . In 2001 she received the Royal Prize of the Swedish Academy .

The director Stefan Jarl produced a documentary about Edvardson and her life in 2004. The film, entitled The Girl from Auschwitz (Flickan från Auschwitz) premiered in 2005.

Honors

In Berlin, a stumbling block was set in front of her former home on Eichkatzweg .

The German Ambassador to Sweden Joachim Rücker awarded Cordelia Edvardson the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class on September 22, 2009 in recognition of her services to German-Swedish relations.

Works

literature

  • Sonja Hilzinger: Elisabeth Langgässer - A biography. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-250-5 .
  • Lotta Lundberg : At zero hour . Novel. Translated from the Swedish by Nina Hoyer. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2015
  • Manuela Günter: Edvardson, Cordelia. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 125f.

Web links

Commons : Cordelia Edvardson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Krüger: Cordelias Geschichte, in: Horst Krüger: Do you know the country. Reise-Erzählungen, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1987, p. 141.
  2. ↑ Horst Krüger: Cordelias Geschichte, in: Horst Krüger: Do you know the country. Reise-Erzählungen, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1987, p. 152.
  3. ↑ Horst Krüger: Cordelias Geschichte, in: Horst Krüger: Do you know the country. Reise-Erzählungen, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1987, p. 155.
  4. ↑ http://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ Bezirk/lexikon/ eichkatzweg33.html
  5. ↑ Cordelia Edvardson honored ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Joachim Rücker's website, accessed on November 21, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joachim-ruecker.de
personal data
SURNAME Edvardson, Cordelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edvardson, Cordelia Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2012
Place of death Stockholm