Elisabeth Heinsick

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Elisabeth Heinsick (born May 8, 1898 in Berlin , † March 27, 1982 in Weimar ) was a German writer, actress and politician. After the Second World War , she became politically active in the LDP and the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime . She was a member of the 2nd German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber .

Life

Heinsick's parents came from Russia, her father was a singer and at the time of her birth was engaged in the Berlin opera Unter den Linden . She married the writer Paul Heinsick. From the 1930s she wrote fairy tale radio plays and was one of the co-authors of the fairy tale film Sleeping Beauty , directed by Alf Zengerling , which was released in 1936. From the end of the 1930s, she and her husband were involved in the resistance against National Socialism , which is why they were both arrested several times. Paul Heinsick died in 1946 after having been imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for many years .

After the end of the war her new center of life was the classic city of Weimar . She became involved in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 1945 and was elected as a women's representative on the party's central executive committee at its 3rd party congress in February 1949, of which she remained a member until June 1951. In addition, she was elected at the 4th state party conference of the Thuringian LDP in July 1949 as an assessor and women's representative on the board of the Thuringian regional association. Later she was a member of the Erfurt district and Weimar district boards. In addition, she was involved in the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, of which she was elected second chairman in April 1949, and was co-founder of the Democratic Women's Association . She represented the VVN from May 1949 to October 1950 as a member of the 2nd German People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone and in the Provisional People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic . Little is known about Elisabeth Heinsick's later life, but she was still a lay judge at the Weimar-Stadt district court in 1966. Until her death she was a member of the central management of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .

Works

  • New fairy tales for a child's heart. 1935.
  • Puck silver leg. New fairy tales from a new era. 1936.
  • The art of the game of billiards. 1940.
  • Animals in the house and yard. 1941.
  • Fritzchen's trip to the moon. A fairy tale. 1946.

Honors

literature

  • Secretariat of the Central Executive of the LDPD: Pioneers of our party . LDPD writings; Issue 38. The Morning, Berlin 1986
  • Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber, Gerhard Braas (eds.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , pp. 560, 569, 925 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Aiga Klotz: Children's and young people's literature in Germany 1840–1950: Volume II: G – K. Metzler, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-00703-0 , p. 196 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Lutz Hagestedt: German Literature Lexicon. the 20th century: Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Volume 16. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023162-5 , column 74 f ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary in Der Morgen, April 1, 1982, p. 2
  2. ↑ a b Neues Deutschland, March 8, 1966, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Heinsick, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, actress and politician (LDPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1982
Place of death Weimar