Hannah Tillich

Johanna "Hannah" Tillich (born May 17, 1896 in Rotenburg an der Fulda ; † October 27, 1988 in East Hampton , USA ) was a German and later an American drawing teacher , model , painter and writer . She was the wife of Paul Tillich .

Life

Hannah Werner grew up in a parsonage as the daughter of the pastor and school superintendent Jean and his wife Louie Werner, nee. Schulze, up. From 1912 to 1916 she was the youngest student at the Royal Art School in Berlin , and in 1919 she started working as a drawing teacher at a school in Berlin-Neukölln . During this time she wrote poetry and attended theological lectures.

In February 1920 she first made the acquaintance of Paul Tillich. On July 13, 1920 she married the painter and art teacher Albert Gottschow in Marburg , with whom she had attended art school. She was Gottschow's model for numerous works. After moving to Greiz , she gave up work due to pregnancy. On June 5, 1922, a boy was born who died soon afterwards. Thereupon the separation from Gottschow took place, in December 1923 the divorce. On March 22, 1924, he married Paul Tillich in Friedersdorf near Berlin. A move to Marburg followed in the spring of 1924 and to Dresden in 1925 . There she made friends with Fedor and Natascha Stepun . She also had contacts with Dresden bohemians , including Mary Wigman, and had a relationship with Heinrich Goesch . The daughter Erdmuthe Christiane "Mutie" (married Tillich Farris) was born in Dresden on February 17, 1926 (died March 26, 2016). In 1929 the company moved to Frankfurt am Main .

After Paul Tillich's dismissal from civil service, the family emigrated to the USA and reached New York on November 2, 1933. After the birth of her son René Stephen in 1935, Hannah Tillich resumed her painting and writing activities.

Her autobiography "From time to time", published in 1974, shocked her husband's followers. A German edition was only able to appear in 1993 after legal disputes.

Works

• Farewell and the many faces of twilight , Papenburg. JJ Lauscher, 1935
• Car ghosts , construction. Vol. 15, April 1, 1949, No. 13, p. 36
• The cockroach , construction. Vol. 15, May 20, 1949, No. 20, p. 30
• From time to time , London. Allen and Unwin, 1974
• From place to place: travels with Paul Tillich, travels without Paul Tillich , New York. Stein and Day, 1976
• The harbor mouse , New York. Stein and Day, 1978
• Benedict: the rebel and the healer, a fragment , 1980
• I am alone: ​​my life , from the English by Sieglinde Denzel and Susanne Naumann. With an afterward by Esther Röhr. Gutersloh. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1993  ISBN 3-579-02197-4

To the biography

• Röhr, Esther: "'I am. I alone am'. Hannah Tillichs 'From Time to Time'” , Die Tageszeitung (taz) January 6, 1990 
• O'Brien Riley, Miles: Interview with Hannah Tillich . San Francisco. KGO-TV [1974?], VHS video, 30 min.

Web links

• Hannah Tillich , text: Esther Röhr, accessed on October 25, 2018