Gerda Morberger

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Gerda Morberger (pseudonym Gerda M. Krautter , Gerda Morberger-Krautter , GK Morberger-Thom and Gerdamaria Thom ) (born May 2, 1910 in Reichenberg (Bohemia) ; † unknown) was a journalist, translator and writer .

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As a teenager Gerda Morberger lived in Vienna and was active in various socialist organizations and from 1929 a member of the SDAP . From 1925 she wrote for the Arbeiter-Zeitung , mostly short stories. In 1933 she received the literary prize of the City of Vienna for the short story "Game in the Monastery Garden". In 1933 she was also a member of the Association of Socialist Writers in Vienna.

In November 1933, the police searched her home and confiscated documents. On February 12, 1934 , she took an active part in the fighting in Vienna as a courier on the side of the Schutzbund . After the fighting, she fled to Brno . In April 1934 she moved to the Soviet Union with around 300 Schutzbunds and other left-wing intellectuals, including Ernst Fischer . For a few months she was an educator in “Children's Home No. 6” (a children's home for the children of German and Austrian Communists) in Moscow and finally studied at the Technical University in Rostov-on-Don . In 1936 she returned to Vienna, where she was active for the Red Aid. In 1937 she married Phillip Emil Fey . He was a writer, language teacher, KPÖ member and editor of the illegal magazine Die Rote Front . In 1942 he was sentenced to death for high treason and executed. After 1938 she was imprisoned by the Gestapo for 18 months . She escaped from prison in July 1939 and fled to Great Britain via Czechoslovakia . There she was interned for six months as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man . In 1944 she married the German trade unionist and metal grinder Rudolf Hermann Krautter, with whom she moved to Germany after the war .

In 1946 she published her book Wie ich Rußland erlebte , in which she reports on her stay in the Soviet Union. She became a translator for the British occupation forces , a member of the SPD , an employee of the aid organization CRALOG and, in 1950, an employee at the Institute for Economic Research (WWI) in Cologne . Between 1951 and 1954 she gave weekly radio lectures in the "literary women's program" on West German radio . In the 1950s she wrote some loan book novels - under pseudonyms - to make money. In 1953 she met the physicist Karlheinz Thom , whom she would later marry. In 1958 she became editor of the magazine Der Diabetiker . She follows her husband, who is called to Harvard and later works for NASA , to the USA. Until 1978 she lived in the USA and worked as a teacher and carer.

She then returned to Germany with her husband and lived as a freelance writer in Königswinter . From 2000 she lived in Alfter near Bonn.

Works

  • How I experienced Russia , Hamburg 1948
  • Secret societies , Berlin 1956
  • Callers without a flag. The poet Jesse Thor , Vienna 1986

literature

  • Eckart Früh : Gerda Morberger (Gerdamaria Thom) , Vienna 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Socialist communications. No. 92, 11/1946. SPD short messages, 10 (editorial comments FN52)
personal data
SURNAME Morberger, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morberger-Thom, Gerda (pseudonym); Thom, Gerdamaria (pseudonym); Morberger-Thom, GK (pseudonym); Krautter, Gerda M. (pseudonym); Morberger-Krautter, Gerda (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg (Bohemia)
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century