Grete Fischer

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Grete Fischer (later Margaret Fisher , born February 6, 1893 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died March 28, 1977 in London ) was an Austro-British journalist and educator.

Life

Margarete Fischer was the daughter of a grain dealer and manufacturer. Her mother, father and brother were victims of the Holocaust in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942, and her sister Marianne Karsten also managed to emigrate.

She studied literature and music at the University of Prague from 1911 to 1914. During the First World War, she did social service. From 1917 she worked in Berlin as an editor, first at the Paul Cassirer publishing house and later at the Ullstein publishing house . From 1922 on she wrote music reviews for the Berliner Börsen-Courier and then between 1931 and 1932 for the BZ am Mittag . The further publication of her first novel Not to be sad in the Börsen-Courier was prevented by the National Socialists in 1933. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933 she was dismissed as a Jew and emigrated to Great Britain in 1934, receiving British citizenship in 1949. In England she produced 18 features for the BBC and wrote for Die Zeitung . During the Second World War, she was a co-founder of the 1943 Club in the German-speaking emigrant organization Freier Deutscher Kulturbund , in which non-communist writers came together.

From 1944 Margaret Fisher worked as a teacher with mentally handicapped children. She now wrote her children's books in English. She published magazine articles on child psychology again in German and translated from English and from Yiddish into German. She was friends with the Prague exile author HG Adler .

Fonts (selection)

  • Joseph Amiel (pseudonym): Palestine: the permitted land . Paris: European Mercury, 1934
  • Zalman Shneur : Noah Pandre . Novel. Translated from Yiddish by Grete Fischer and Joseph Leftwich . Berlin: Brandussche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937, preprint in the Jüdische Rundschau , from August 18, 1936
  • Margaret Fisher: Banana Circus . Photos Henry Rox. London: Putnama's, 1943
  • Margaret Fisher: What a thread can do . Photos Anneli Bunyard, drawings Patric O'Keeffe. London; Glasgow: Collins, 1945
  • Margaret Fisher: The bread we eat . Photos Douglas Glass, drawings Patric O'Keeffe. London; Glasgow: Collins, 1945?
  • Margaret Fisher: Break the Pot - make the Pot . Photos Douglas Glass, drawings Elizabeth. London; Glasgow: Collins, 1946
  • Edward Lear : How nice to know Mr. Lear: rhymes and stories . Translation and post-poetry Grete Fischer. Munich: Heimeran, 1965
  • Scholem Alejchem : Mottl, the cantor's son . Translation of Grete Fischer. Frankfurt am Main: Insel, 1965
  • Servants, Brecht and others: contemporaries in Prague, Berlin, London . Olten; Freiburg i. Br .: Walter, 1966
  • The Innocence of the Righteous: Poems . Darmstadt, 1974

literature

  • Fischer, Grete. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 7: Feis – Frey. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-22687-X , pp. 112-119.
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 122f.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 299
  • Jennifer Taylor: "We saved their culture, it was just not picked up" , in: Charmian Brinson (Ed.): No complaint about England? : German and Austrian exile experiences in Great Britain 1933-1945 . Munich: iudicium, 1998, pp. 175-189

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Fischer: Purity prevails over cynicism . In: Willhad P. Eckert and Wilhelm Unger (eds.): HG Adler - Book of Friends, voices about the poet and scholar with unpublished poetry . Wienand, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-87909-062-9 , pp. 8-13 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British journalist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1977
Place of death London