Eva Lippold

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Eva Lippold born Eva Rutkowski (born April 15, 1909 in Magdeburg ; † June 12, 1994 in Zossen ) was a German resistance fighter and writer.

Life

Eva Rutkowski was an "illegitimate" daughter of an ironer. The identity of her father is not clear. Eight out of twelve siblings died of consumption . In 1921 she became active in the workers' youth movement. She completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a typist. From 1928 to 1931 she was a member of the SPD and then switched to the KPD . In October 1930 she married Rudolf Lippold, from whom she divorced in April 1931. She was closely connected to Karl Raddatz .

From 1931 she worked as a typist in the editorial office of the KPD newspaper Tribüne . Together with her partner Hermann Danz , she resisted National Socialism in Magdeburg and after Danz's arrest for the Red Aid of Germany in Berlin . In 1934 she was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to 9 years in prison on July 25, 1935 in the People's Court proceedings against " Rudolf Claus and others". Arthur Weisbrodt received 7 years in prison; Rudolf Claus was executed on December 17, 1935 in Berlin-Plötzensee .

From 1935 to 1943 Eva Lippold was incarcerated in the prisons in Jauer and Waldheim . After her release in 1943, she was made compulsory labor in an armaments factory. She was arrested again in July 1944 for “illegal activity” as a member of the NKFD and the Saefkow group in Magdeburg. During her detention, she began poetry and found melodies for some of her poems.

After the liberation she worked for the Main Committee on Victims of Fascism (OdF) in East Berlin . In addition, she was active in cultural policy in the Soviet zone of occupation and became party secretary of the SED organization in the GDR Writers' Union . She lived in Berlin and worked as an editor, re-poet and critic.

In 1948 she married Cay von Brockdorff and moved with him and his daughter Saskia von Brockdorff to Kallinchen near Zossen.

From 1950 she worked as a freelance writer and processed her experiences from the resistance against National Socialism and her imprisonment by publishing a biographical lexicon with letters and pictures of the lives of murdered resistance fighters, their novels, poems, stories and publications.

Eva Lippold was buried in the Kallinchen cemetery on June 18, 1994. Part of her written estate is in the SAPMO archive.

Honors

In 1980 she received the National Prize of the GDR 1st class for art and literature in a collective and in 1989 the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Works (selection)

  • Fight for the human right. Letters and life pictures of anti-fascist resistance fighters. 1950
  • Lincoln's last trip. 1959
  • I hear America sing. 1962
  • House of heavy gates. Berlin 1971
  • Life where people die. Berlin 1974

Movie

The DEFA film Die Verlobte was made in 1980 based on the novels House of Difficult Gates and Life, Where Will Die .

literature

  • Yvonne Kalinna: Lippold, Eva, geb. Rutkowski (Ruttkowski), m. v. Brockdorff (Brockdorf) (since 1949) . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 289-293.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Eva Lippold estate in the Federal Archives: 6. Documents from friends and family members ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Music composed in the concentration camps@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rote-hilfe.de
  3. ↑ Lyrics  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / claudet.club.fr  
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / startext.net-build.de
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 8, 1980, p. 4
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 3, 1989, p. 4
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / vs.verdi.de
personal data
SURNAME Lippold, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rutkowski, Eva (maiden name); Brockdorff, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1994
Place of death Zossen