Edith Anderson
Edith Anderson-Schröder (born November 30, 1915 in New York ; † April 13, 1999 in Berlin ) was an American journalist and writer who lived in the GDR .
Life
Edith Anderson was a daughter of the Jewish teacher Max Handelsman. In 1937 she graduated as an English teacher from Columbia University's New College in New York. In 1942/43 she was the cultural editor of the communist daily Daily Worker . In 1943 she met the German exile Max Schröder in New York , whom she married in 1944. From 1943 to 1947 she worked as a train conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad .
Her husband went to Germany in 1946. In East Berlin he later became chief editor of the Aufbau Verlag . She followed him to Berlin via Paris in 1947 . In November 1948 the daughter Cornelia was born. Initially living in West Berlin, he moved to Berlin-Grünau in 1951 .
From 1951 to 1956 she was a translator and editor for the International Women's Democratic Federation . From 1958 she was a freelance journalist, translator and writer and from 1960 to 1967 Berlin correspondent for The New York National Guardian.
In her biography Love in Exile (original title: Love in Exile ) she described the period from 1947 to 1958. The book was first published in 1999 in English (Steerforth Press, South Royalton, Vermont ) and in 2007 in German, edited by her daughter. In her biography she writes that I am still homesick: "I missed the Jewish faces that made New York so at home".
Works (selection)
She became known in the GDR in particular through the works:
- 1956 Yellow Light (novel), translated from the American by Otto Wilck and Max Schröder
- 1972 The observer sees nothing: a diary of two worlds (travel diary), translated from the American by Eduard Zak
- 1975 Lightning bolt from the blue , (anthology), edited by Edith Anderson
other works are:
- 1949 Loretta (novella), translation by Max Schröder
- 1966 Delicacies for Dr. Faustus (short stories), translation from the American
- 1980 Where is Katalin? Play, world premiere at the National Theater Weimar
Translations:
- 1960 Naked Among Wolves by Bruno Apitz into English for Seven Seas Publishers
- 1963 Goethe's Life in Pictures for Edition Leipzig
She is the author of the following children's books:
- 1958 dogs, children and rockets
- 1961 Big Felix and little Felix
- 1962 Julchen and the pig children
- 1962 The lost shoe
- 1978 The Klappwald (note: after 1973 she was the owner of a farm with forest land in Georgenthal )
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Anderson, Edith . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Sibylle Klemm: an American in East Berlin. Edith Anderson and the other German-American cultural exchange , deGruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-2677-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography in Edith Anderson: Liebe im Exil , BasisDruck , Berlin 2007
Web links
- Edith Anderson Schroeder Archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Literature by and about Edith Anderson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edith Anderson, 83, chronicler of life in East Germany, dies , obituary in the New York Times , April 18, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anderson, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderson-Schröder, Edith (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1999 |
| Place of death | Berlin |