Gusti Jirku

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Augustina "Gusti" Jirku , also Stridsberg (born August 27, 1892 in Chernivtsi , † 1978 in Lidingö ) was a German-speaking writer and translator from Slovenian .

Life

The banker's daughter lived near Windischgraz from 1916 and only began to learn Slovenian intensively after 1924. Her teacher aroused her interest in Ivan Cankar , so that in 1929 she made a selection of works under the title Der Knecht Jernej. A selection published in translation. Emil Alphons Rheinhardt contributed the foreword . In 1930 her translation was published by Cankars Hiša Marije Pomočnice under the title The House of the Merciful Mother of God . In 1931 she caused a sensation with her first novel of her own between the ages .

During the Spanish Civil War she was a paramedic on the Republican side with the International Brigades .

By VENONA was revealed that during the Second World War in San Francisco under the cover name Klara as informant for Soviet intelligence worked.

Works

As Gusti Jirku

  • We fight with! Jirku, Gusti. - [Sl, Spain]: Ayuda Medica Extranjera (Foreign Medicine. Help), [1938] Available in Leipzig
  • Between the times ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Leipzig: Tal, 1931 Available in Leipzig
  • The house of the Merciful Mother of God ; Cankar, Ivan. - Vienna: Niethammer-Verlag, 1930, 1. – 5. Thousands available in Leipzig
  • The servant Jernej ; Cankar, Ivan. - Vienna [I, Graben 29 a]: Niethammer-Verlag, 1929, 1. – 5. Thousand
  • Gusti Jirku: fight to death! The work of the medical service of the international brigades . (PDF; 3 MB) Madrid, undated, 62 p. ( Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung )

As Gusti Stridsberg

  • Vår stund med varandra ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1968
  • Hjärtats aventyr ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1967, 2nd uppl.
  • Slottet vid green ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren, 1965; Available in Leipzig
  • Mine fem liv ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Stavanger: Stabenfeldt, 1963; several editions
  • Viisi maailmaani ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Jyväskylä: Gummerus, 1963, 3rd painos
  • Medical training in Sweden ; Rexed, Bror. - Stockholm: Swedish Institute f. cultural exchange with d. Abroad, 1962
  • People, forces and me ; Stridsberg, Gusti. - Hamburg: Hoffmann u. Campe, [1961], [1. - 7th thousand]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Erwin Köstler : From the cultureless people to the European avant-garde: main lines of translation, presentation and reception of Slovenian literature in the German-speaking area. Pp. 182-183 , accessed December 2, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Obtainable from the book
  3. ↑ Gusti Jirku: Fight to death! The work of the medical service of the international brigades. (PDF; 3.2 MB) Retrieved December 2, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Irene Filip: Women in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. (PDF) DÖW , p. 2 , accessed on December 2, 2010 .
  5. ^ John Earl Haynes: Cover Name, Cryptonym, Pseudonym, and Real Name Index; A Research Historian's Working Reference. April 2009, accessed December 2, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Rentola, Kimmo: President Urho Kekkonen of Finland and the KGB. (PDF) 2008, accessed on December 1, 2010 : “On the female agent 'Klara' (Gusti Stridsberg), see W. Agrell, Venona: Spåren från ett underrättelsekrig. Stockholm: Historiska Media 2003, 302–328. "
personal data
SURNAME Jirku, Gusti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jirku, Augustina (full name); Stridsberg, Gusti (later name); Stridsberg, GF; Clare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Soviet writer and spy
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Lidingö