Ina Roberts

Ina Roberts (born: Ernestine Loew, married Heyser ; born July 29, 1904 in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel , Lower Austria ; † October 11, 1977 in Cardiff , Wales ) was an Austrian writer and theater actress .

Life

Ernestine Loew was born as the daughter of the doctor Hermann Loew and his wife Emilie in Wolkersdorf, where she grew up. She later trained as a theater actress in Vienna . After that she was not only on stage in Austria, but also in Switzerland and Germany . As the wife of theater director Karl Heyser, she also lived in Baden-Baden for a few years .

She began to write novels and her own plays under the married name Ina Maria Heyser at an early age, including Wenzel declares war on Europe , a play that premiered in 1934 and in which she drew attention to the threat posed by National Socialism in a comedy . Her first husband Karl Heyser was an actor and director of the Baden-Baden Theater . When the political situation in Germany became increasingly tight, she ended the marriage because she wanted to return to Austria, but her husband was not willing to give up his post. Immediately after the divorce, she returned to Vienna and lived in a small town on Semmering , where she claimed to have acted against National Socialism.

Loew was arrested in March 1938 together with her older brother Waldemar in Wolkersdorf, because they had asked citizens in a pamphlet to vote against the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in the recent referendum . Thanks to personal connections, Loew was soon able to leave the regional court in Vienna and fled to Cardiff, Welsh. It was here that she met her second husband, David Roberts, a lecturer at the University of Leeds . Ernestine Roberts also called himself Ina Roberts in the future in English-speaking countries .

After the war Roberts lived in Austria as well as in Wales. As an author of radio plays , she was also employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), but also as a radio presenter for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). She published in both German and English.

After her death, at the age of 73, she was buried at Vienna's central cemetery at her own request .

Literature (selection)

As Ina Maria Heyser

• The holy man. In five acts. Berlin, 1932.
• Wenceslaus declares war on Europe. Comedy in three acts. Berlin, 1932.
• Power ( Tiberius and Sejan ). Historical drama in 5 acts, Berlin, 1934.
• Preciosa. New version of a play in 4 acts based on Pius Alexander Wolff . Berlin, 1935.

As Ina Roberts

• Over many years . Poems, 1955
• Poems of 1957
• New Poems, 1959
• Between death and life, poems 1967
• Through alien eyes . Fallowfield, 2000.
• Doctors in my life . Edited by Markus Loew, Christian Schrefel and Mercedes Echerer . The 2, ISBN 978-3-9503455-4-4 (autobiography).
• Ina Roberts, Gerhard Loew, Markus Loew: We were an old Austrian family. The 2, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9503455-8-2 (Autobiographical Testimonies).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ina Roberts in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ernestine Roberts, b. Loew. Association for the documentation of the history of the Jewish population in Wolkersdorf