Hanna Fuchs (writer)
Hanna Fuchs (born March 11, 1907 in Mährisch-Ostrau , Austria-Hungary ; died May 27, 1991 in Melbourne ) was a Czechoslovakian- Australian writer .
Life
Hanna Fuchs was the daughter of Hermann Fuchs and Olga Fuchs. She grew up in a Jewish family and had two siblings. Her sister was able to flee to Australia in 1939. Her mother was a victim of the Holocaust . Fuchs was raised at home, then attended a music academy in Prague and graduated as a music teacher. From 1930 she lived in Berlin and stayed among writers and artists. She wrote articles for cabaret. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, she went to Paris with her Czechoslovak passport . There she studied literature at the Sorbonne . She became acquainted with Lucien Goldmann . In 1938 she published a volume of poetry in the German emigrant press in Paris.
After the German occupation of France in 1940, she fled to the unoccupied Vichy France . Together with the Vienna-born engineer Richard Leuf (Löw), she managed to escape to Switzerland in 1941/42, where she was interned in the Riedhof camp in Aeugst am Albis . She participated in the artistic camp life. With Leuf she had their son Jack Guido Foks, born in 1943. She wrote for the magazine Aufbau and published a children's book after the war. In 1950 she emigrated to Australia with her son, where she worked as an office worker and piano teacher. She wrote occasional newspaper articles and wrote the manuscript for another children's book, which did not go to print.
Works
- Hansi Fuchs: Chimeras: Poems . Cover drawing by Marianne Heymann . Rhenus, Paris 1938 (1950).
- Hanna Fuchs: Jacqueline's dreamland: a book for young people . With color pictures and pen drawings by Curry. Jacob Villiger, Zurich 1946.
literature
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 394f.
- Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933-1950. Biographies and Bibliographies. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5 , pp. 86f.
- Ursula Seeber (Ed.), Austrian Library in Exile: Small Allies . Picus, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 124.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jack Foks , at U3A, Melbourne
- ↑ Literature by and about curry in the bibliographic database WorldCat , pseudonym of Werner Saul
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Hanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foks, Hanna; Fuchs, Hansi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak-Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moravian-Ostrava |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1991 |
| Place of death | Melbourne |