Eva Leidmann

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Eva Leidmann (born August 23, 1888 in Burghausen ; † February 6, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German writer and screenwriter . Two of her novels were among the books that were burned in the National Socialists' book burnings .

Life

Eva Leidmann was a farmer's and landlord's daughter, she had three younger siblings. She spent most of her childhood and youth in Mühldorf am Inn . Eva Leidmann worked as a waitress in her parents' house and later. She noted her first attempts at writing on her "beer pad". In 1906 she married Franz Mühlberger, a beer brewer. In 1908 she moved to Munich . In 1917 she got divorced and moved to Hamburg . In 1931 she married again with the businessman Hugo Schmidt, which only lasted until 1934. In Hamburg you can see her at the theater and in cabaret, she also works as a journalist for the Hamburger Illustrierte . In 1932, Leidmann's first novel was published . My mother was not happy either - the missteps of a Bavarian girl she had worked on for three years. In the magazine Simplicissimus the book is recognized as the work of an author who knows "the soul of this Bavarian people" well. The "renouncement of the misunderstood, kitschy type of the usual kind" is also appreciated.

In 1933 the novel How to make a bed appears . In it she describes the descent of a Munich waitress to a prostitute who, in her material need, is spared neither an abortion nor having to give another child into other hands. Ina Kuegler writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that both novels by Eva Leidmann are autobiographical and deal with the difficult lives of maidservants, beer girls and cashiers.

The descriptions of "illegitimate children, uprooted peasant girls and hard-working waitresses" contradicted the Nazi idealized ideas of the peasant class, which is why both novels were placed on the list of forbidden books and burned on May 10, 1933. Having thus initially become unemployed, Leidmann found a new livelihood as a screenwriter at UFA from 1934 to 1938 . She wrote eight scripts, partly in collaboration with the directors, all of which were filmed. With the exception of the film Land der Liebe , which Goebbels described as "quite intolerable", these films were mainly light entertainment. The script work seems to have resulted in some prosperity. Eva Leidmann was able to afford a small house in Berlin-Michendorf in 1938. However, she was not allowed to live there. She died in 1938 at the age of 49 as a result of an appendix operation.

Works

  • My mother was not happy either: the missteps of a Bavarian girl . Berlin: Zinnen, 1932
  • How to make a bed . Berlin: Zinnen, 1933. Reprinted in 2013 in edition phoenix (Frankfurt: Westhafen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-942836-03-6 ).
  • A girl goes ashore: Roman . Berlin: Book u. Deep dr. Ges., 1935, second edition 1939, third edition 1943
  • Oops: A Schnadahüpferl adventure . With colorful watercolors by Erwin Espermüller. Hamburg: Broschek, 1936
  • Lucky bug . Stories. Drawings by Walter Dreesen, Hamburg: Broschek, 1937

Scripts

literature

The only source in which Eva Leidmann gives information about her life can be found in the magazine Filmwelt from September 27, 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ina Kuegler: Vom Wirtshaus zum Film , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 9, 2017
  2. ↑ Burned and exiled. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ Eva Leidmann , at Filmportal
personal data
SURNAME Leidmann, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1938
Place of death Berlin