Elisabeth Freundlich

Elisabeth Freundlich (born on July 21, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died on January 25, 2001 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer .

Life

The daughter of the Jewish social democratic lawyer and temporary president of the workers' bank Jacques Freundlich studied German , Romance languages and theater studies . After graduating, she worked as a dramaturge at the New Vienna Playhouse . After her father was arrested in 1934, banned from the profession and placed under house arrest, the family fled into exile in 1938; first to Zurich , later to Paris , where she founded the Fédération des Emigrés provenant d'Autriche (Federation of Austrian Emigrants) in May 1938 and the Ligue in September together with Kurt Lichtenstern (Conrad H. Lester), Emil Alphons Reinhardt and Arpad Haas de l'Autriche Vivante (League for Spiritual Austria), in which Joseph Roth , Franz Werfel , Alfred Polgar , Kurt Blaukopf , Gina Kaus and Ludwig Ullmann also took part. In 1940 she emigrated to New York , where she initially worked as a lecturer at colleges and universities and studied librarianship at Columbia University . From 1943 she had a permanent position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , which she used to build up and oversee the features section of the Austro-American Tribune .

Since 1945 she was married to the philosopher Günther Anders, who came from Breslau and who had also gone into exile . She returned with him to Vienna in 1950, where she found that her manuscripts were not in demand. Therefore, together with her husband, she mainly translated American literature and wrote for newspapers in the Federal Republic of Germany - especially for Mannheimer Morgen , for which she u. a. reported on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the subsequent trials. It was not until the mid-1970s that she had her say in Austria and after 1980 she published an extensive poetic and journalistic work.

In 2009 the Elisabeth-Freundlich-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

Works

Novels and volumes of short stories

The brazen rider. Insel, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 3-458-14029-8 .
The soul bird. Zsolnay, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-552-03804-3 .
Dark times. Persona, Mannheim 1986, ISBN 3-924652-05-8 .
The traveling years. Memories. Ed. And epilogue by Susanne Alge. Otto Müller, Salzburg 1992, ISBN 3-7013-0824-1 .

Non-fiction

They knew what they wanted: life pictures of important women from 3 centuries. Herder, Freiburg 1981, ISBN 3-451-07893-7 .
The murder of a town called Stanislau . Nazi extermination policy in Poland 1939–1945. Österreichischer Bundesverlag , Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-215-06077-9 . With afterwords by Susanne Alge and Yaroslav Hrytsak, re-edited by Paul Rosdy, Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-901602-66-5 .

items

The world of Robert Neumann. In: Robert Neumann. Voices of friends. The novelist and his work. On his 60th birthday on May 22, 1957. Vienna-Munich-Basel (Desch) 1957, pp. 63–131.
Warn and wait. In: Franz Richard Reiter (ed.): Our fight. In France for Austria. Interviews with resistance fighters , Documents 7, Vienna (Ephelant, formerly: Böhlau) 1984, pp. 19–40, ISBN 978-3-9007-6602-3 .

literature

Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 194
Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (DÖW, ed.): Austrians in exile. France 1938-1945. A documentation. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna; Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-215-05717-4 , p. 21 f. (Co-founder of the "League for Spiritual Austria")
Elisabeth Reichart (Ed.): Austrian poets. Otto Müller, Salzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7013-0863-2 .
Kindly, Elisabeth. In: Renate Heuer : Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 7, Munich: Saur, 1999, pp. 457–463
Evelyn Adunka : The fourth church. The Viennese Jews from 1945 to the present day . (= History of the Jews in Vienna. 6). Philo, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86572-163-X .
Erich Hackl : The names of things. Salute to Elisabeth Freundlich. In: Literature and Criticism , H. 301/302, 2001, pp. 52–63
Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 369.

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Obituary on Literaturhaus.at

Web links

Literature by and about Elisabeth Freundlich in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Jacques Freundlich. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 194f.
^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Austrians in exile. France 1938-1945. A documentation. 1984, p. 42 ff.
^ Paul Pasteur, Félix Kreisler (ed.): Les Autrichiens dans la Résistance. Actes du Colloque . (= Etudes Autrichiennes. Nº4) Université de Rouen, Center d'Études et de Recherches Autrichiennes, Rouen 1996, ISBN 2-87775-213-5 , p. 30. (online at books.google.de , accessed on March 17 2015)

personal data
SURNAME	Kindly, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 2001
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Jacques Freundlich. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, pp. 194f.

[2] Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): Austrians in exile. France 1938-1945. A documentation. 1984, p. 42 ff.

[3] Paul Pasteur, Félix Kreisler (ed.): Les Autrichiens dans la Résistance. Actes du Colloque . (= Etudes Autrichiennes. Nº4) Université de Rouen, Center d'Études et de Recherches Autrichiennes, Rouen 1996, ISBN 2-87775-213-5 , p. 30. (online at books.google.de , accessed on March 17 2015)