Fränze Vordtriede

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Fränze Elise Helene Vordtriede (born October 7, 1911 in Dortmund , † November 10, 1997 in Fort Myers Beach , Florida ) was a German-American Anglicist, Jewish emigrant and university teacher .

Life

After stints in Dortmund and Bielefeld, Fränze Vordtriede moved to Todtmoos in the Black Forest with her single mother, the journalist Käthe Vordtriede and brother Werner Vordtriede . There she first attended the village school in the Todtmoos-Weg district. In the spring of 1923 the family moved on to Freiburg in Baden. From 1926 Fränze grew up in the Haslach district (Freiburg im Breisgau) . Here she regularly supported her mother with the workers' welfare and was involved in the youth movement Wandervogel . Like her brother Werner, she was in correspondence with Kurt Tucholsky , the co-editor of the Weltbühne . Her father and manufacturer Gustav Adolf Vordtriede (1882–1929) died in an accident in Herne .

After graduating from the Freiburg girls ' high school, today's Goethe-Gymnasium, Fränze Vordtriede studied English at the University of Freiburg from the 1930 summer semester . Her two minor subjects were Modern History and Modern German Literature . In July she was admitted to the Freiburg University Medical Center because of severe pain in her abdomen . The doctors there determined that she was pregnant and refused to give her any help. Due to complications from the secretly performed abortion , a long radiation therapy followed , which her mother had to pay for herself. In 1933 Vordtriede voluntarily de-registered and went to England repeatedly . In 1934 she became with the work Der Imagismus . Its essence and its importance are promoted . Vordtriedes dissertation dealt, for the first time in the German-speaking area, with the main representatives of Anglo-Saxon imagistic poetry. These included Ezra Pound , Hilda Doolittle , Amy Lowell , David Herbert Lawrence, and others. Her doctoral supervisor was the English graduate and rector of the University of Friedrich Brie . Since she was classified as a Jewish mixed race , she was not affected by the ban on doctoral studies in Baden , but received political censorship with rite (sufficient).

After withdrawing his doctorate and “ protective custody ”, Fränze Vordtriede emigrated to England at the end of February 1935. There she got by as a housekeeper at first . She later found a job as a language teacher in London. Her workplace was on Warwick Avenue (London Underground) with members of the upper class of the time . With the beginning of the Battle of Britain she was arrested at the end of May 1940 and interned as an Enemy Alien (category B - doubtful) on the Isle of Man . "Category B" because between 1936 and 1939 she secretly entered Germany and Switzerland several times. Despite petitions and protests from her brother, friends and mother as well as frequent illnesses, she was not allowed to leave the Rushen Internment Camp or internment camp until May 1943 .

In 1947 Vordtriede went on to the USA and went into exile there . She traveled with the Swedish passenger ship MS Gripsholm. Her brother had been there since 1938 and her mother since 1941. In the United States, she quickly found a job as a university lecturer. She became an assistant professor at Beaver College in Jenkintown, which later relocated to Glenside, Pennsylvania . Rudyard Kipling was already studying there . In 1951 she married her fellow teacher William Thomas Riley in Philadelphia . In 1952 the stateless person was finally naturalized. Vordtriede Riley was also a member of the American Association of German Teachers (AATG), part of the international umbrella organization IDV . In the following years, the couple moved to Woodstock, New York and Massachusetts . In 1964, her mother, Kathe, died in New York City . She retired in Florida. Contact with her brother Werner had been broken since the 1970s . He died in 1985. In 1994 Fränze Vordtriede visited the former house in Freiburg and the grave of her brother in Munich . In 1997 Frances Vordtriede-Riley died in the USA. She was the last of the Vordtriede family. There were no offspring .

Appreciations

Since 2014, the Vordtriede-Haus Freiburg has been dedicated to the memory of the emigrated family. She lived from 1926 to 1938 at Fichtestrasse 4, Freiburg-Haslach. In addition to Käthe Vordtriede, the children Fränze and Werner Vordtriede were also part of it. It was their last home together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fränze Vordtriede: The Imagism. Its essence and its meaning. Univ., Diss., Freiburg i. Br. 1935.
  2. ^ New German Professor Reveals Life in Germany, England, and America. In: Beaver News , No. 4, October 1941, pp. 1 and 4.
  3. ^ All Birth, Marriage & Birth Results. at www.ancestry.com, accessed January 7, 2016.
  4. ^ All Immigration & Travel Results. at www.ancestry.com, accessed January 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ Biography Of Frances V Riley. at www.ancientfaces.com, accessed January 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Vordtriede, Fränze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vordtriede, Fränze Elise Helene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1997
Place of death Fort Myers Beach , Florida