Ola Alsen

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Ola Alsen , rarely Olga Alsen , actually Henriette Alsberg, divorced Blair, married Schulze, (born March 8, 1880 in Bonn , † March 4, 1956 in Munich ) was a German writer and editor .

Life

Ola Alsen came as the daughter of the Jewish businessman Lehmann Alsberg and Sophie Alsberg, nee. Rosenbaum, born in Bonn. Her brother was the lawyer and writer Max Alsberg , who was persecuted by the National Socialists and who defamed himself in 1933 in Samedan . She first married a Mr. Blair and after the divorce Hanns Schulze (1884-1931), the editor of the 8 o'clock evening paper in Berlin.

In the 1920s she was one of the best-known fashion journalists in Berlin. She was the fashion editor of the Elegant World until 1936 , but also wrote regularly for Die Dame , the Film-Kurier and from 1921 to 1924 for the Moden-Spiegel , a weekly supplement to Hans Lachmann-Mosses Berliner Tageblatt and Handelszeitung .

In addition to her journalistic work, Alsen regularly wrote novels and non-fiction books that dealt with fashion and beauty issues, but also social issues. The novel The Paradise of Women , written in 1917, described the everyday life of the main character in a fashion salon against the backdrop of the war period , while the story Die Lots' daughter from 1930 dealt with the penal system based on the fate of two women. In the 1920s, Alsen also wrote screenplays for various silent films, which were made by Zoltán Nagy and Richard Eichberg , among others . Your Berlin salon was a popular meeting place for political and artistic celebrities in Berlin.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Alsen was baptized in order to avoid persecution. Shortly after her brother's suicide, Alsen emigrated first to Great Britain and later to the USA and only returned to Germany after the end of the Second World War . She became active again as a fashion journalist and lived alternately in Zurich and Munich. Alsen died in Munich in 1956.

Works

  • The funny jumping jack. A book for our darlings. (With illustrations by Gertrud Caspari ) 1907.
  • Happiness lives here. Borngraeber, Berlin 1910.
  • The fashion of the gallant time. A monograph. Borngraeber, Berlin 1912.
  • Woman's paradise. A Berlin novel. Eysler, Berlin 1917.
  • The secret of beauty. Eysler, Berlin 1920.
  • Garden of passion. Novel. Eysler, Berlin 1920.
  • Boudoir air. Thoughts and fantasies at the dressing table. Eysler, Berlin 1921.
  • Letters of love. Collected by Ola Alsen. Eysler, Berlin 1922.
  • Charlotte Bell. Novel. Almanach-Kunstverlag, Berlin 1924.
  • Through cliffs. Novel. Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1924.
  • A girl of today. Novel. Maschler, Berlin 1925.
  • Young, beautiful and slim. A breviary for happiness in life. Maschler, Berlin 1926.
  • Lady's Day. Agfa in-house print shop, Berlin 1927.
  • The elegant lady. Advice on the care of the exterior, especially the hairstyle. Klett, Berlin 1927.
  • He and she. A modern social revue. Drei-Masken-Verlag, Munich 1928.
  • Lot's daughter. Records from a women's prison. Narrative. Oldenburg, Leipzig 1930.
  • Beauty and joie de vivre through body care. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1934.

Filmography

literature

  • Alsen, Ola (ps.) . In: Petra Budke , Jutta Schulze (Hrsg.): Writers in Berlin from 1871 to 1945. An encyclopedia on life and work . Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 24-25.
  • Ola Alsen . In: Mila Ganeva: Women in Weimar Fashion. Discourses and displays in German culture, 1918–1933 . Camden House, Rochester 2008, pp. 197-198.
  • Alsen, Ola. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 125-126.
  • Reich manual of German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ola Alsen: The Side of Fashion, Beachwear. Illustrated Film Week 1926, accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gudrun M. König: Consumer culture: staged world of goods around 1900 . Böhlau, Weimar 2009, p. 148.
  3. ↑ Information from Ganeva, but not from Budke / Schulze. The IMDb gives the scripts under the name Ola Alsen and Olga Alsen, as "Olga Alsen" Ola Alsen is also named in contemporary advertisements for the Elegant World . See Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Volume 41 . Leipzig 1924, p. 137.
  4. ↑ No copy can be found
personal data
SURNAME Alsen, Ola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsberg, Henriette (real name); Alsen, Olga (pseudonym); Schulze, Henriette (married name); Blair, Henriette (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1956
Place of death Munich