Felice Schragenheim
Felice Rachel Schragenheim (born March 9, 1922 in Berlin ; † probably on the transport to Bergen-Belsen at the beginning of 1945 ) was a German journalist who, as a Jew , fell victim to the National Socialist genocide . Posthumously she gained fame as one of the two main characters in the book Aimée and Jaguar by Erica Fischer and the film of the same name .
Life
Felice Schragenheim was Jewish and, in addition to her job as a journalist, worked in the resistance. Her talent for poetry is guaranteed, poems "in the style of Mascha Kaléko ", as Helga Brinitzer recalled. In the summer of 1942 she met and fell in love with Lilly Wust . Felice called Lilly Aimée and Lilly called Felice Jaguar . After four months, Felice moved in with her friend.
On August 21, 1944, Felice Schragenheim was picked up by the Gestapo and taken to the concentration camp . According to the Yad Vashem database, she was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt on September 5, 1944 on Transport I / 116 . On October 9, 1944, the transport Ep was then deported from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp .
The date and place of her death are unknown, but she may have died on a death march from the Groß-Rosen concentration camp , possibly in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . On February 14, 1948, Felice Schragenheim was declared dead by the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court; for the sake of form, December 31, 1944 was set as the date of death.
Book and film Aimée and Jaguar
The life story of the two women is described in the 1994 book Aimée and Jaguar by Erica Fischer , which formed the basis for the 1998 film Aimée & Jaguar . The book is based on memories and diary excerpts from Lilly Wust as well as on reports from contemporary witnesses and contains reciprocal letters and poems by the couple. In contrast to the film, no dramaturgical and partly fictional plot is created. In the author's afterword, some aspects are critically examined. Some contemporary witnesses criticized the book and film. The alleged love affair between Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust was in truth characterized by dependency. Elenai Predski-Kramer, a contemporary witness who was friends with Felice Schragenheim, expressed the suspicion that Lilly Wust herself might have betrayed Felice Schragenheim to the Gestapo, but there is no evidence for this.
Quote
"The shot arrow ...
The arrow shot never returns.
This is not a god turning his tip -
and what one boldly wastes on a 'maybe'
is often luck ...It is too much, too much what you ask for!
And cowardly like a bad comedian,
so I cling tight to your hand
and I'm scared ...I am a dazzler and a vagabond -
will I keep myself up without deceiving myself,
and then am I good enough for others, good enough
for you too?And yet: You rightly asked so much,
everything in life has a purpose and meaning. -
Once I have become a person,
be praised, loved, thanked! "
Others
Maria Schrader , who played Felice Schragenheim in Aimée & Jaguar , made her directorial debut Liebesleben ("For Felice") in 2007 . It can be assumed here, however, that this dedication applies to Schrader's daughter, who she gave birth to shortly after the end of the shooting and named her after her role.
Oskar Ansull designed Felice's books - The Books of Felice Schragenheim, 1922–1945 as a presentation and reading from the books that Felice Schragenheim intended to take with her on her planned departure. The intellectual and cultural background of the young woman in Berlin in the 30s and 40s becomes clear. This production was shown over a hundred times across Germany.
Web links
- Schragenheim, Felice. In: Theresienstadt Lexicon.
- Jewish Museum Berlin: Documents and photographs on Felice Schragenheim from the estate of Elisabeth Wust
literature
- Erica Fischer : Aimée & Jaguar. A love story, Berlin 1943. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-462-03499-8 .
- Erica Fischer: The short life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. "Jaguar", Berlin 1922 - Bergen-Belsen 1945. With photos by Christel Becker-Rau. dtv, Munich 2002 ISBN 3-423-30861-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.berlin-judentum.de/frauen/predski.htm
- ↑ http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/99/10/jaguar.htm
- ↑ Erica Fischer (ed.): The short life of the Jewess Felice Schragenheim. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2002.
- ↑ Martin Z. Schröder: A reading from the suitcase. Oskar Ansull presents Felice Schragenheim's books. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 14, 1999.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schragenheim, Felice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schragenheim, Felice Rachel; jaguar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and partner of Lilly Wust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |