Eva Brück
Eva Brück , b. Eva Morgenstern (born June 13, 1926 in Berlin ; died November 5, 1998 there ) was a German writer, translator and journalist.
Life
Eva Morgenstern's father Milan Morgenstern was an Austrian curative educator and psychiatrist and, in the 1920s, headed a counseling center of the International Workers Aid (IAH) in Berlin for juvenile lawbreakers, her mother Sophie Alice Hirschberg an educator for disabled children. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933 , the family fled to Vienna, where Eva attended primary school and from 1936 the Black Forest school . After Austria's annexation in 1938, the family fled to Great Britain, their grandmother and a paternal aunt became victims of the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt ghetto . She attended a Quaker boarding school and high school in Oxford. She studied modern languages at St Anne's College from 1944 to 1947 and then worked as a teacher.
In 1947 she married Josef Brück, who had been rescued from Vienna in 1939 on a Kindertransport . With him, the Lviv Jew, who was considered a Soviet citizen by the British, she wanted to enter the Soviet Union in 1949 , but they were detained in East Berlin and stayed there out of political conviction. In 1958 she became a GDR citizen. She worked for the English edition of the trade union newspaper “ Lehrer der Welt” and for other newspapers and magazines in the GDR. Thanks to her knowledge of Russian, she also worked as a simultaneous interpreter, for example for Ilja Ehrenburg in 1952 at the World Peace Congress in Vienna. She translated educational texts from Russian and museum catalogs as well as a few comics by Hannes Hegen into English. For her trips abroad to Scandinavia, Mongolia, North America, Asia, Africa and also to Austria, she argued with the party bureaucracy of the SED about travel permits. She wrote travel reports and short stories, only part of which was released for publication, part of which was circulated in the GDR as samizdat . International interviews appeared in the journal Bildende Kunst . Brück volunteered in Berlin's Jewish community .
Fonts (selection)
- Elisabeth - a flashback. Fouqué, Egelsbach 1998.
- Little Eastern Stories. Verl. Am Park, Berlin 1996.
- In the shadow of the swastika. Ahriman, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993.
literature
- Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Wien / Köln / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 436–438 ( preview p. 436 in the Google book search; p. 437 in the Google book search; p. 438 in the Google Book Search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Brück in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Eva Brück in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brück, Eva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morgenstern, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer, translator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1998 |
| Place of death | Berlin |