Edith Andreae

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Edith Andreae , b. Rathenau (born January 18, 1883 in Berlin , † 1952 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a German salonnière . She earned mainly as executor and editor of the works of her brother Walther Rathenau importance.

Life

Edith Andreae was born in Berlin in 1883 as the only daughter of the German-Jewish industrialist Emil Rathenau and his wife Mathilde Rathenau , née Nachmann. She was the younger sister of the politician Walther Rathenau and the industrialist Erich Rathenau. On February 10, 1902, she married the banker Fritz Andreae , son of Salonnière Bertha von Arnswaldt . In her youth, Edith Andreae spent a lot of time with the daughter of the "important mathematician Pringsheim " - Katia Mann , who later married .

The marriage had four daughters, including the later writer Ursula von Mangoldt-Reiboldt .

In 1913 the family moved to Villa Andreae in Grunewald . Here Andreae maintained a "sophisticated sociability with a high level", with which she succeeded as one of the few women of the 1920s to "revive the salon sociability [and] leading artists, writers and scholars of her time to gather around". She was considered “the most intellectual woman in Berlin”, was a supporter of Max Reinhardt and was friends with numerous intellectuals of her time, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Gerhart Hauptmann and Thomas Mann . Politicians like Friedrich Ebert were also among the guests of their salon, in which concerts and lectures were held irregularly. The young Ursula Herking found support from Edith Andreae, as she was friends with her late mother.

After the murder of Walther Rathenau in 1922, she became the administrator and editor of his political and literary estate. After Rathenau's murder she was the owner of Freienwalde Castle , which she donated to the then Oberbarnim district in 1926, so that the castle could be converted into a memorial for Rathenau. She was also a member of the board of trustees of the Walther Rathenau Foundation, which was dissolved in 1939.

During the time of National Socialism , the family had to give up the house in Grunewald in 1938 and moved into the former Walther Rathenaus house at Koenigsallee 65. They received an exit permit and emigrated to Switzerland in 1939. The family settled in Zurich , where Fritz Andreae died in 1950. Edith Andreae died two years later in 1952.

literature

  • Andreae, Edith. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 26.
  • Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1780–1914). de Gruyter, Berlin 1989, pp. 585-586.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ursula von Mangoldt: On the threshold between yesterday and tomorrow - encounters and experiences, Weilheim / Oberbayern 1963, p. 75 (under the entry on Thomas Mann )
  2. ^ Petra Wilhelmy-Dollinger: The Berlin salons: with historical-literary walks . de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, p. 385.
  3. a b Petra Wilhelmy: The Berlin Salon in the 19th Century (1780-1914) . de Gruyter, Berlin 1989, p. 586.
  4. Ursula Herking: Thank you for the flowers - then - yesterday - today . Munich / Gütersloh / Vienna 1973.
  5. See museumsverband-brandenburg.de