Edith Dietz
Edith Dietz (born February 16, 1921 in Gießen as Edith Königsberger ; † November 14, 2015 ) was a German writer and victim of National Socialism .
After she had to leave the Bad Ems grammar school in 1935 because of the Nuremberg Laws , further lessons were to take place in Cologne or Worms in 1935/36, but this did not materialize. She and her sister Ilka are adopted by their uncle Adolf Königsberger (born June 24, 1878), who was most recently a director at AEG - the reason: single Jews were subject to very high taxes. From 1936 to 1938 she took afternoon classes in Berlin to obtain secondary school leaving certificate .
After her uncle Adolf's suicide, she completed training at the Jewish seminar for kindergarten teachers from 1938 to 1940, because otherwise she could not do any training. From 1940 to 1941 she worked in Jewish kindergartens and after-school care centers in Berlin, most recently in October 1941 in the Jewish assembly camp in Levetzowstrasse . In August 1942, Dietz fled by train over Freiburg and Waldshut-Tiengen in Switzerland .
After she and her sister were initially mistaken for German spies and interned several times , she worked for and with refugees. At the insistence of her husband Friedrich Dietz, whom she married in 1946, she returned to Germany in the same year, first to Oberndorf , then to Karlsruhe .
In 2000 she received the Ludwig Marum Prize and in 2005 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , both because she attended schools, read from her books , and told of her past.
Works
- Escaping the Nazis: The Flight of a Jewish Girl to Switzerland, Autobiographical Report 1933–1942 . With a foreword by Micha Brumlik . Frankfurt am Main, 2008, 2nd edition (Her life in Nazi Germany and her flight to Switzerland)
- Freedom within limits: my internship in Switzerland 1942–1946 . Frankfurt am Main, 2004 (your internship in Switzerland)
- ... we come full circle: Decades of peace are no guarantee . Frankfurt am Main, 2006 (your return to Germany)
Web links
- Homepage of Edith Dietz
- Literature by and about Edith Dietz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Title by Edith Dietz on the Brandes & Apsel-Verlag website
Individual evidence
- ^ About the price see Ludwig Marum Prize in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
- ^ Message in ka-news from Thursday, October 6, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietz, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Königsberger, Edith (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and victim of fascism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 2015 |