Erika Guetermann

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Erika Guetermann (née Mitz; born July 2, 1895 in Hamburg ; died May 25, 1988 in Locarno ) was a German-American journalist and poet .

Life

After training in music education at the Hamburg Conservatory , Guetermann studied literature, art history and philosophy in Hamburg and Munich . From 1919 to 1933 she worked as an employee of renowned Hamburg newspapers in the fields of film, theater and art. During this time, she wrote her first poems, which she published in newspapers.

In 1933 she received from the Nazis banned from working , in 1935, she was arrested and came three months in " protective custody " after Fuhlsbüttel . In 1938 she was able to emigrate to the United States , and in 1944 she became an American citizen . In 1948 she returned to Germany and worked again as a journalist in Hamburg. From 1950 she lived in New York and Ascona .

A first volume of poetry, Machine and Magnolia , was published in 1966, and a second, From Alpha to Romeo , was published in 1979. She also translated from the American and contributed to numerous anthologies.

An estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Works

  • Machine and magnolia. Poems. Stuttgart 1966.
  • From Alpha to Romeo. Poems. Lahnstein 1979.
  • We stood with our feet at your gates, Jerusalem (unpublished).
Translations
  • Denise Levertov : With her eyes on the back of our head. St. Gallen 1961.
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti : A Coney Island of the Inner Carousel. Wiesbaden 1962.
  • Lilian Ross: Hemingway - A Portrait. Wiesbaden 1963.

literature

  • Ingeborg Bayer: We stood with our feet at your gates, Jerusalem. Portrait of the poet Erika Guetermann. In: Exil 19 (1999), Heft 2, pp. 54-75.
  • Ingeborg Bayer: Guetermann, Erika. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 4, p. 510.
  • Renate Wall: Burned, banned, forgotten. Small lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1933 to 1945. Cologne 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the central database of papers of the Federal Archives (Germany) .
personal data
SURNAME Guetermann, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitz, Erika (maiden name); Gütermann, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1988
Place of death Locarno