Dinah Carnations

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Grave site, Stubenrauchstrasse, Dept. 24, grave 372, in Berlin-Friedenau

Dinah Nelken , also Bernhardine Ohlenmacher-Nelken , b. Schneider (born May 16, 1900 in Berlin ; † January 14, 1989 there ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

Life

Dinah Nelken comes from an old family of craftsmen in Berlin on her father's side, and from Huguenots on her mother's side who settled in Berlin. The father was an actor. She attended a lyceum and continued her self-taught education. In the 1920s she had her first successes with short stories and feature articles for the Berlin press and texts for the political-literary Berlin cabaret "Die Impossible", which she co-founded. At the end of the 1920s she moved to the Wilmersdorf artists 'colony , where she wrote the key novel one and a half room apartment (1932) about a typical apartment in the artists' colony. When asked why the real names of the residents were not mentioned there, she said that firstly it was unthinkable at the time that some of the names would become so well known, and secondly that no names should be mentioned to protect against Nazi persecution . In 1936 she moved to Vienna with her partner and future husband, the bookseller Heinrich Ohlenmacher (born October 12, 1900), where she wrote numerous film scripts. In collaboration with her brother, the painter Rolf Gero Schneider , she wrote and designed the cheerful and serious letter novel I to you (1939). The subtitle read: "A novel in letters with a story and its morals for lovers and those who want to become one". In 1939 I was filmed to you with Brigitte Horney in the leading role under the title A woman like you . The diary Ich an mich (1952) appeared in a loose continuation .

After the annexation of Austria, she moved to the Dalmatian island of Korčula . An application made in 1940 for the allocation of travel funds for a book about Dalmatia was rejected by the German authorities. In 1943 she went to Italy with her husband, where she worked for the publisher Mondadori . In 1950 she returned to West Berlin with her husband. The novel Spring over your shadow, jump! (1954), who deals with the experience of fascism, as well as the story of Fleur Lafontaine , which in the GDR became the template for a two-part television film by Horst Seemann (1978, with Angelica Domröse , Hilmar Thate , Eberhard Esche , Gisela May ). The film also became very popular in the GDR because it decidedly denies the unconditional primacy of “party work” over private happiness. In the 1970s and 80s Dinah Nelken got involved in the “Artists for Peace” initiative.

Carnations was best known as an entertaining storyteller. Their socially critical and anti-fascist attitude rather shape their more recent works. She was also a film, television and radio writer, wrote essays and poetry.

Dinah Nelken was buried in Department 24, grave number 372 at the Stubenrauchstrasse municipal cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Fonts

  • The awakening (novel 1925)
  • One and a half room apartment. Novel from the artist colony under the name Bernhardine Schneider (1933 Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag Leipzig)
  • me to you (novel 1939 Gustav Weise Verlag Berlin), made into a film under the title A woman like you (1939)
  • Me to myself, a diary (novel 1951, filmed in 1953 by Josef von Báky under the title Diary of a Lovers )
  • Caprifuoco (radio play 1959, as a television play 1959/60 udT Angels don't kiss strange gentlemen , stage version under the title The Angel with the Rifle )
  • Confession of a passion (novel, copyright 1955, 8th edition 1979, Verlag der Nation Berlin, license number 400/53/79, LSV 7301)
  • Jump over your shadow, jump! (Novel 1954, new version and confession of a passion 1955)
  • Addio amore (novel 1957)
  • With all my heart, a cheerfully ironic novel (1964)
  • The fearful heroic life of a certain Fleur Lafontaine (Roman 1971)
  • All the time of my life, stories, poems, reports (1977/78)
  • Lyrical biography of a poetess lady (novel 1988)

literature

  • Christian Adam : The dream of the year zero. Authors, bestsellers, readers: The reorganization of the world of books in East and West after 1945. Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 , pp. 297–299.
  • Barbara Drescher: The Vanishing Female Protagonists in the Weimar Exile, and Postwar Fiction of Irmgard Keun, Dinah Nelken, and Ruth Landshoff-Yorck , Dissertation University of Minnesota 2001.
  • Marianne Kröger:  Carnations, Dinah. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 55 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Christiana Puschak: Vanishing Point Korčula. Dinah Carnations 1900-1989. In: Zwischenwelt. Literature, resistance, exile. 26th year issue 3/4 (Dec. 2009). Ed. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Vienna, ISSN  1606-4321 p. 39 f.
  • Nelken, Dinah , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945 . Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 695.

Web links

Commons : Dinah Carnations  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gero, Rolli , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . KG Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 299.
  2. ↑ Christian Adam: The dream of the year zero. Berlin 2016, p. 298.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: Grave of Dinah Nelken .
personal data
SURNAME Carnations, Dinah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohlenmacher-Nelken, Bernhardina (full name); Schneider, Bernhardina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1989
Place of death Berlin