Gabriele Stammberger

Gabriele Stammberger (born Bräuning , 1931–1957 Gabriele Haenisch ; born October 15, 1910 in Berlin , † March 13, 2005 there ) was a German communist and editor at Dietz Verlag in the GDR.

Life

The architect's daughter Gabriele Bräuning got to know the communist Walter Haenisch , a son of the German Social Democrat , Prussian minister of culture, district president of Wiesbaden and co-founder of the Reich Banner , Konrad Haenisch . At the age of 22 and pregnant, she followed her husband to the Marx-Engels-Institute in Moscow in 1932 . On October 3, 1932, their son Alexander ("Pim") was born there.

Walter Haenisch was arrested as a "spy" in March 1938, sentenced to death in May, shot on June 16, 1938 in the NKVD execution site in Butowo and buried there in a mass grave. Gabriele Haenisch earned her living in a silk mill. In 1939 she met Gregor Gog , who ran the vagabond magazine in the Weimar Republic . Their son Stefan was born on November 5, 1940. From 1941 Gabriele Haenisch worked as a translator at the publishing house for foreign language literature in Moscow.

After Germany's attack on the Soviet Union , Haenisch and her partner Gregor Gog and their two children were evacuated to Central Asia . The family lived in dire circumstances in Fergana in Uzbekistan . First Stefan died on December 16, 1941 of pneumonia, then on March 31, 1942 Alexander died of meningitis.

Gregor Gog died in October 1945. Gabriele Haenisch worked as a teacher in Uzbekistan after the war . She did not return to Germany until 1954. Although her relatives lived in West Berlin and the Federal Republic, she stayed in the GDR. She found a job as a lecturer in the SED's own Dietz publishing house. Here she mainly worked on biographies. In 1957 she married for the third time in the GDR. Her husband, the geologist Friedrich Stammberger (1908–1978), had spent ten years imprisonment in a corrective labor camp in Norilsk in Soviet exile . After his death in 1978, Gabriele Stammberger donated the Friedrich Stammberger Prize from his estate for outstanding achievements in the field of geology.

Gabriele Stammberger welcomed the fall of the wall and hoped for democratic socialism in Germany. She remained a member of the PDS until her death on March 13, 2005 .

literature

Gabriele Stammberger, Michael Peschke : Arrived safely - Moscow. The exile of Gabriele Stammberger 1932-1954 . Basisdruck Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86163-082-6 .
Nils Klawitter: Disappeared in a footnote. The memoirs of the communist Gabriele Stammberger . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung 30./31. October / November 1, 1999.
Thomas Kaemmel: How the book designer at the Universum library Fritz Stammberger became the geologist Friedrich Stammberger in the Gulag . In: Marginalia. Journal for Book Art and Bibliophilia Issue 195, 2009, ISSN 0025-2948 , pp. 32–40.

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personal data
SURNAME	Stammberger, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 2005
Place of death	Berlin