Edith Braemer

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Edith Braemer , née Abel (born July 16, 1909 in Hamburg , † April 13, 1969 in Leipzig ) was a German literary scholar and university professor .

Life

The daughter of a Jewish merchant family graduated from high school in 1928 and in the same year married a Hamburg merchant who died in 1931. The marriage has two children. After the death of her husband, she joined the KPD . From 1933 she worked illegally in a Berlin communist street cell. She was arrested twice and had her children stripped of her custody. The children survived as child refugees in England until 1945 . Since November 1935 imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp and later in the Lichtenburg concentration camp , she was convicted in May 1937 of “preparing to commit high treason”. Released from prison in January 1939, she emigrated to Shanghai in March 1939 , where she worked as a maid for wealthy refugee families under the name Edith Weiß. In 1946 she traveled to Great Britain and married the communist carpenter Gerhard Braemer, interned there during the war.

In 1947 the couple moved to the Soviet zone of occupation . Edith Braemer became a member of the SED there as early as 1947 and completed a degree in German and an aspirantur at the Humboldt University in Berlin by 1949 . In 1949 she moved to the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar as a research assistant . In 1951 she was a lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . There doctorate Edith Braemer 1952 to Dr. phil. with the work Geniezüge on Goethe's Erwin von Steinbach and Götz von Berlichingen . From 1953 she worked as a lecturer and habilitation candidate at the University of Jena. 1958 habilitation them at the University of Rostock with the work of Goethe's Prometheus and the basic positions of the Sturm und Drang . 1958/1959 she was a lecturer for modern and newest literary history in Rostock. From 1959 to 1965 she worked as a professor in Rostock, from 1964 to 1965 as a full professor with a chair for modern and recent literary history and as head of the German Institute. From 1965 until her death she was a professor with a chair for modern and contemporary literary history at the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig .

Publications (selection)

  • (with Hedwig Voegt): The demand of the day. A Goethe picture for the working people. Berlin (East) 1949.
  • On the importance of Schiller as a national poet. Erfurt 1955.
  • (with Ursula Wertheim ): Friedrich Schiller, poet of the nation. (Traveling exhibition). Berlin (East) 1957.
  • Goethe's Prometheus and the basic positions of Sturm und Drang. Weimar 1959.
  • (with Ursula Wertheim :) Studies on German classical music. Berlin (East) 1960.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gert Liebich: Braehmer, Edith (née Abel). In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 254-255.
  2. ^ Entry on Edith Braemer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  3. ^ A b Edith Braemer in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
personal data
SURNAME Braemer, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abel, Edith (maiden name); White, Edith (nom de guerre)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1969
Place of death Leipzig