Edith Oppenheim-Jonas

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Edith Wilhelmine Oppenheim-Jonas (born November 11, 1907 in Oberursel , † March 22, 2001 in Baden ) was a painter , draftsman and caricaturist . She was of German descent, married an Englishman and later received Swiss citizenship. She was best known as a cartoonist for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter , as the creator of the comic figure Papa Moll and as a campaigner for women's suffrage.

Life and accomplishments

Edith Jonas was the child of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. When she was 3 years old, her family moved from Germany to Baden, Switzerland, where her father - an engineer by profession - was in charge of the patent office of Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC) should take over. However, since he was drafted into the German army during the First World War, his entry into the job was delayed; From 1916 to 1918 the family lived in St. Louis , Alsace , to be close to them.

Edith Jonas then grew up together with her two younger siblings Walter and Margot in Baden. She graduated from business school, which she graduated with the commercial school-leaving certificate. In 1932 she married the BBC employed engineer Eric Oppenheim, the couple had three children.

Although Edith Oppenheim-Jonas early interest in drawing and painting developed and in their free time during five years painting classes with Willy Fries attended, she was active only since the Great Depression to earn as a professional illustrator, first to an additional income for the family.

During the Second World War , the family failed two attempts to move to England in a convoy via Geneva and France. She therefore stayed in Baden and was naturalized there after the war.

Edith Oppenheim-Jonas created the comic figure Papa Moll in the 1950s on behalf of Pro Juventute , which wanted to contrast the foreign comics with a Swiss child figure . The adventures of Papa Moll and his family appeared in the youth magazine Junior from 1952 and in book form from 1967.

literature

  • Switchbacks and other tricks: the life of Edith Oppenheim-Jonas, inventor of Papa Moll. Edited by Joan Fuchs-Oppenheim, Roy Oppenheim. Verlag Hier + Jetzt, 2008. ISBN 978-3-03919-079-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Papa Moll, une institution alémanique . In: Le Temps . December 19, 2017 ( letemps.ch [accessed March 5, 2018]).
  2. ^ Message from the Righini Fries archive, Zurich, regarding training with Willy Fries, painter, 1881–1965
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim-Jonas, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheim-Jonas, Edith Wilhelmine (full name); Jonas, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss painter, draftsman and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberursel
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2001
Place of death to bathe