Elisabeth Janstein

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Elisabeth Jenny von Janstein (born as Elisabeth Jenny Janeczek October 19, 1893 in Iglau , Austria-Hungary ; died December 31, 1944 in Winchcombe , Borough of Tewkesbury , England) was an Austrian poet and journalist .

Life

Elisabeth Jenny Janeczek's father Julius Janeczek was gendarmerie commander at different locations in Austria-Hungary, since retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1914, he lived in Graz . During the First World War in 1916 he changed his family name to Janstein and was raised to the nobility in 1917, with the nobility repeal laws of 1918/1919 in Austria and Czechoslovakia , he and his family were deprived of the title of nobility. Janeczek / Janstein worked in December 1914 as a post applicant and telephone operator in the Post and Telegraph Office in Vienna . Janstein published her first literary contributions in the Grazer Tagespost . The Ed. In 1918 Strache Verlag published nine of her poems in the anthology The Embassy and in 1919 published her first volume of poetry. In 1921 Emil Alphons Rheinhardt edited her third book Die Landung for the Münchner Drei Masken Verlag.

Prayers for Reality (1919)
The curve (1920)

Janstein made friends with Felix Braun and his sister Käthe Braun-Prager and came to Eugenie Schwarzwald in Vienna . She turned professionally to journalism and wrote for the Prager Tagblatt and various Austrian and German newspapers. She went to Paris as a correspondent for the Neue Freie Presse . Janstein had been a member of the journalists' union Organization of the Vienna Press since 1925 and was a permanent delegate to the Fédération Internationale des Journalistes and its vice-president for two years. She adapted to the changed political conditions in Austria in 1934 and was sharply criticized by Georg Bernhard in 1936 for her hostile attitude towards exiled journalists . After Austria's annexation in 1938, her articles came under Nazi censorship, and she decided to travel to England and take her belongings with her. At the beginning of the war, as a Reich German, she was imprisoned for six weeks in the women's prison in Holloway and wrote a diary. Janstein was then with Winifred Montford in Winchcombe and worked on an autobiographical family novel The Korwins . Janstein suffered from liver and biliary complications since childhood and died after an unsuccessful operation.

Winifred Montford and Martina Wied tried for some time to posthumously publish the prison diary or the novel, the manuscript of which was finally lost.

Works

  • Prayers for reality . Poems. Strache, Vienna, Leipzig 1919.
  • The curve. Records . Vienna: Eduard Strache, 1920
  • The landing . Poems. Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921.

literature

  • Martin Erian: Report and feature pages - antipodes in lockstep? On the operational journalism of Elisabeth Janstein and Klara Mautner . In: Hildegard Kernmayer, Simone Jung (ed.): Feuilleton. Writing at the interface between journalism and literature. Bielefeld: transcript 2017, pp. 125–149.
  • Jürgen Serke : Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , pp. 411f.
  • Hartmut Vollmer (Ed.): "The sun dances to death in red shoes": poetry by expressionist female poets . Zurich: Arche, 1993, p. 243
  • Ursula Seeber-Weyrer: "Although I will always be Austrian ...". Elisabeth Janstein (1893-1944): Search processes for a literary biography , in: Charmian Brinson (Ed.): No complaint about England? : German and Austrian exile experiences in Great Britain 1933-1945 . Munich: iudicium, 1998, pp. 137–156
  • Elisabeth Janstein , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 187–190

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter , from Winifred Montford to Mariette Lydis , January 1945, at Malydis, blog
personal data
SURNAME Janstein, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janstein, Elisabeth Jenny von (full name); Janeczek, Elisabeth Jenny (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1944
Place of death Winchcombe , England