Edith Kadivec

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Ida Edith Kadivec (born November 27, 1879 in Sankt Martin (slo. Sveti Martin) near Buzet Istria ; † after 1952) was an Austrian author and the focus of a spectacular trial, the Vienna Sadist Trial of 1924.

Life

Edith Kadivec was born in the Slovenian part of Istria as the daughter of a railway official. From 1885 to 1894 she attended elementary school in Unterwaltersdorf in the Austrian district of Baden . She then attended the Ursuline Teacher Training College in Graz from 1894 to 1898 .

She then worked as a private teacher in Vienna for a year before joining the Lycée de filles of Nôtre Dame in Paris . During this time she claims to have attended lectures on philosophy at the University of Paris. Because of a nervous problem she was treated in Vienna and met Count Franz Schlick. The count was sadomasochistic . In 1910, Edith Kadivec's daughter Edith was born out of wedlock in Brussels from this relationship . After Edith Kadivec had stayed with her daughter in Paris, she returned to Vienna with her daughter in 1915 after the beginning of the First World War . There she pretended to be a widowed baroness.

On February 1, 1916, she opened a private school for modern languages under the name Cadvé . She regularly advertised as a "strict language teacher". Mainly students from the lower classes were taught there. They were often given tasks that they could not solve. The children were then punished, with paying and sometimes prominent customers watching.

Vienna sadist trial

On December 24, 1923, Edith Kadivec was charged with abuse by the twelve-year-old Gretl Pilz at the Vienna juvenile court. Gretl Pilz was the daughter of a housekeeper and was under the tutelage of Edith Kadivec. She testified that she had to undress, or at least bare her buttocks, before laying over Mrs. Cadvé's knee. She then beat them with a leather whip, but only when gentlemen were present who paid for it. An official medical examination followed on January 3, 1924 , during which the doctor found a clearly visible bruise. Otherwise, he diagnosed that there were no health problems and that the child was well fed. Also on January 3, the police searched Ms. Cadvé's establishment. Various percussion instruments, letters with sadomasochistic content, a diary and a cash book were found, with the help of which a customer list was created. It should turn out that the gentlemen had masturbated during the punishment and then partially performed cunnilingus on the accused.

At the beginning of the actual process, the public was excluded. She was accused of desecration and seduction into fornication in several cases, as well as for fornication against nature . The final charge related to sexual acts against her daughter, but the charge was dropped during the trial. The defendant invoked the right to chastise in the trial . The verdict was announced on March 1, 1924, Edith Kadivec was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, and two co-defendants were given small suspended sentences . On appeal , the sentence was reduced to a five-year prison sentence, and on December 18, 1927, Edith Kadivec was released following a Christmas amnesty .

The process itself was accompanied by a great deal of media interest in Austria, it even overshadowed reports on the high treason trial against Hitler because of the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch (Hitler trial) . Alfred Polgar and Karl Kraus, among others, commented on the case. Polgar described the court judgment as sadistic, Kraus as barbaric.

Author

During her imprisonment, she wrote the book Mein Schicksal - Confessions by Edith Cadwé , published in 1926, with the help of the journalist Josef Kalmer . The book was later reprinted under the title Under the Whip of Passion . Because of the detailed description of sexual practices, the work became an important work in sadomasochistic literature. The work was also published in Germany in 1931.

In 1932 a follow-up volume to this first book was published under the title Eros - the meaning of my life . It describes the years after their release from prison.

Further life

In 1927 she officially changed her name to Edith Christally . This was followed by numerous applications for a resumption of the proceedings from 1924, petitions and actions for compensation as well as lawsuits against the daughter's legal guardian. On the basis of an application for reopening in 1937, which was based on the fact that she was the victim of a “Jewish world conspiracy”, she was judicially declared to be limited in incapacity in May 1940. After she had made another, now tenth, application for readmission in 1949, it was decided again that she was incapacitated to a limited extent. In 1951 and 1952 she was housed in the psychiatric sanatorium Am Steinhof in Vienna. The last documented application for compensation from prison dates from the spring of 1953.

Works

  • My fate - Confessions by Edith Cadwé , 1926
  • Eros - the meaning of my life , 1932, reprint from 1978 by Heyne, ISBN 3-453-50122-5
  • Confessions and experiences. Library of the Bizarre , Volume 1, 2002 publication, ISBN 3-923646-84-4
  • Confessions and experiences. Library of the Bizarre , Volume 2, ISBN 3-923646-83-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spectrum Karl Woisetschläger : A child is beaten . In: Die Presse Online , August 2, 2008.
  2. ↑ The Torch No. 668–675, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Kadivec, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cadvé, Edith; Christally, Edith; Cadivec, Edith; Kadivec, Ida Edith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author of sadomasochism
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Istria
DATE OF DEATH after 1952