Dora Wentscher

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Dora Wentscher (born November 6, 1883 in Berlin , † September 3, 1964 in Erfurt ) was a German actress, sculptor and writer.

Life

Dora Wentscher was born in Berlin in 1883 as the daughter of the landscape painter Julius Wentscher (1842–1918). From 1903 to 1905 she studied acting and was then committed to various stages until 1913, for example from 1905 to 1909 in Trier, in 1906 at the festival in the Düsseldorf Apollo Theater , in 1910/11 at the Märkisches Wandertheater and in 1911/12 at the Berlin Theater. In 1913/14 she trained as a sculptor a. a. at Arthur Lewin-Funcke and was then listed as such in the Berlin address books in 1925. She was unable to begin studying at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, which was planned for 1922 , due to illness and care for her mother. Around 1918 she had started working for several newspapers such as B. the Schaubühne and the Weltbühne also to work as an author. From 1929 she became a member of the KPD and in the union of proletarian revolutionary writers .

In 1933 she emigrated to Prague and in 1935 to the USSR , where she worked mainly in Moscow as a translator and from 1941 also as a special correspondent for the radio. In 1946 she returned to Germany and lived in Weimar. Here she became a member of the German Writers' Association and the SED . She belonged to the circle of friends of artists and intellectuals who formed around the writer Johannes Nohl in Weimar . She married Johannes Nohl in 1950 in his second marriage. She has written stories, novels, short stories, radio plays and essays, some of them autobiographical. Several works are clearly anti-militarist. She worked longest on her reading drama Heinrich von Kleist . Dora Wentscher died shortly before her 81st birthday in Erfurt and was buried in Weimar.

She received the medal for fighters against fascism from 1933 to 1945 , and in 1959 the Patriotic Order of Merit (bronze).

Works

  • Barbara Velten: The story of a theater passion. Roman, Strache, Leipzig 1920
  • Two stories . Meshdunarodnaja Kniga, Moscow 1939. In it: The Hero's Boy's Comrade and The Milk Is Divided
  • The tramp. Story, Meshdunarodnaja Kniga, Moscow 1940
  • The school of cruelty. Story, Moscow 1941
  • Nevanist ′. Story, 1942, (German: jealousy)
  • Aunt Tina. Novellas, Thüringer Volksverlag, Weimar 1946
  • The lieutenant's parallelepiped. Story, Thüringer Volksverlag, Weimar 1947
  • They are looking for death. Story, 1947
  • The past not forgotten. Stories, Thüringer Volksverlag, Weimar 1947
  • To the friends. Story, 1950
  • My picture of clay. The author of the biographical poem 'H. v. About their work and about their heroes. In: neue deutsche literature 5, 1954.
  • Heroes, women and servants. selected stories, Volksverlag, Weimar 1956
  • Heinrich von Kleist. Reading drama, Volksverlag, Weimar 1956
  • Iskitim rafting site: Siberian diary 1941/1942. Volksverlag, Weimar 1962

As an editor or translator

Release
  • Heine. Book of Songs. 1946
  • A. Weil: The Peasants' War. 1947
  • Herder : Journal of my journey in 1769. 1949
  • Lenau, a fighter. A selection of Lenauscher seals, ed. and introduction, Verlag Werden und Wirken, Weimar 1948
translation
  • Jack Conroy : The disinherited. Moscow: Foreign Workers Publishing Cooperative in the USSR. [Original title: The disinherited . New edition Basel: Universum book club 1937]

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Festival at the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf - Rheinischer Goethe-Verein, Düsseldorf. In: Düsseldorfer Latest News, July 1906
  2. ↑ Wentscher, Dora . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, 2, p. 3460. “Bildh. W15. Emser Str. 24 III. ”(= Father's address until 1918).
  3. ↑ Students at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts and at the State Bauhaus Weimar. Archival signature: 156, dating: 1911–1922, 1925. Dora Wentscher 1922.
personal data
SURNAME Wentscher, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1964
Place of death Erfurt