Evelyn Anderson

Evelyn Anderson , née Eleonore "Lore" Seligmann , pseudonym Evelyn Lend , Mary ( May 13, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ; died January 8, 1977 in London ) (pseudonym Evelyn Lend, Mary) was a German-British journalist.

Life

Eleonore Seligmann was a daughter of Caesar Seligmann and his wife Ella, née Kauffmann (1867–1953).

From 1927 to 1933 Seligmann studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Heidelberg, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Paris. In 1931 she received a degree in economics and in 1932 she graduated as Dr. rer. pole. She then worked as a freelance journalist in Berlin until 1933.

From 1927 to 1929 Seligmann was politically involved in the KPD . In 1929 she turned to the SPD . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , she worked in the group New Beginning and fled to London in May 1933. There she met her sister Ilse again, who also emigrated to England, where she called herself Ilse Seglow and worked as a psychotherapist and group analyst. In 1934 Evelyn Seligmann married Harald Müller, a journalist who had also fled and who Anglicized his name to Paul Anderson .

From 1940 to 1942 Anderson worked for the broadcaster of the European Revolution . She was also active in the advisory group to Aneurin Bevan .

From 1943 to 1952 she worked for the Tribune newspaper and from May 1953 to May 1976 Anderson was the BBC's editor on Eastern European issues. During this time she was a correspondent in Germany in 1946, 1952 and 1963.

Fonts

• Evelyn Lend: The Unterground Struggle in Germany . London: Fact, 1938
• Hammer or Anvil. The Story of the German Working Class Movement , London 1945
  • Hammer or anvil. On the history of the German labor movement , Nuremberg 1948

literature

• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss : Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 , (= politics, economy, public life), 1980, p. 15.
• German exile literature 1933-1945: a bio-bibliography , 1970, p. 24.