Elise Haas
Elise Haas , born as Elise Bähr (born July 14, 1878 in Tholey ; † November 2, 1960 in Mainz ) was a German poet .
Life
She was born as the daughter of the businessman Isaak Bähr (1848–1931) and his wife Henriette Schloß (1853–1926). She had two brothers. Her paternal grandmother, Bella Bähr geb. Marx (1821–1906), was a cousin of Karl Marx . Bella Marx is the daughter of the rabbi Samuel Marx from Trier, an uncle of Karl Marx.
From 1884 to 1894 she went to school in Trier . In 1907 the family moved to Simmern to take over a grocery store there . On September 14, 1909, she married the tax advisor Wilhelm Haas (1877–1944), with whom she lived in Trier from November 1909 to June 1943. Then she was first taken into " protective custody " by the National Socialists and then deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Her husband died there of exhaustion on September 14, 1944. She herself contracted a femoral neck fracture in early 1945 that was not properly treated and the consequences of which she suffered for the rest of her life. After her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp, Elise Haas spent several years in the municipal hospital in Mainz. From October 1952 until her death she lived in the old people's home of the Jewish community in Mainz. Her grave is in the Jewish part of the main cemetery in Mainz .
plant
Almost seventy lyrical texts and over thirty letters to Jacob Picard , to the chief rabbi of Trier, Adolf Altmann , and to Kurt Pinthus have survived . Seven poems appeared in the magazine Cahiers luxembourgois between 1934 and 1938 . In 1936 three poems were published in the German-Jewish magazine Der Morgen and one poem in the CV newspaper . The remaining texts were discovered as manuscripts in the Wiener Library , London, the Leo Baeck Institute New York, the German Literature Archive Marbach and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Trier.
Elise Haas corresponded with the writers Jacob Picard , Paul Henkes and Franz Werfel . In 1938 she sent the Trier chief rabbi Adolf Altmann a folder with pictures and texts in exile in the Netherlands. This is now at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
After the war, Elise Haas was initially forgotten. In 2009, the grammar school teacher Willi Körtels from Konz published the results of his research on Elise Haas as a book.
literature
- Manfred Schöncke: Karl and Heinrich Marx and their siblings. Cologne 1993, pp. 92-93. ISBN 3-89144-185-1
- Willi Körtels: Elise Haas, a poet from Trier . Friends of the Synagogue Könen, Konz 2009
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Elise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bähr, Elise (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tholey |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1960 |
| Place of death | Mainz |