Herta Schubart

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Herta Schubart (born as Herta Müller, June 15, 1898 in Verden ; died 1975 in Munich ) was a German cultural journalist who had been working for Bayerischer Rundfunk since 1949 under the name Susanne Carwin .

Life

Herta Müller was a daughter of the lawyer Julius Müller and Rose Bertelsmann. She attended high school in Hanover and began studying art history in 1917 , which she broke off in 1920 after marrying Günther Schubart. In 1921 they had their daughter Marianne Schubart-Vibach , who became an actress. The marriage ended in divorce in 1923 and Schubart resumed studies in 1925. She studied art history in Munich, Jena, Würzburg, Munich and Hamburg and was founded in 1929 in Hamburg with Fritz Saxl with a dissertation about Bernard Salomon doctorate . With a research grant from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft she did further research on Dutch Bible illustrations before Rembrandt and traveled to Belgium , France and the Netherlands . After the Nazis seized power in 1933, she left Germany for political reasons and moved to Santander and then to Madrid . In 1936 she became a member of the Mujeres Antifascistas . She got caught up in the political trench warfare on the part of the Republicans, was expelled from the organization, arrested and expelled from Republican Spain. All of her scientific documents were lost.

Schubart stayed in Paris in 1937 as an illegal and came to England with Saxl's help . Between 1938 and 1940 she worked in the aid organization "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany", which took care of the Kindertransporte . During this time Schubart was writing a novel about her experiences in Spain, which was published in 1950 in London in English.

Schubart returned to occupied Germany in 1945 and worked for the US Army as an employee of the Civil Censorship Division. She married Heinz Karpeles , who had also returned from emigration and called himself Heinz Carwin. The marriage with Karpeles was divorced in 1959. From 1946 she worked for the features section of the Frankfurter Rundschau under the name Susanne Carwin . From 1949 she worked first as a freelance, then as a permanent employee for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and later also for television and designed programs, among other things, on topics from art and history.

Fonts (selection)

  • Eeckhout and Savoldo , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , 1930, pp. 10–16
  • Bernard Salomon's Bible illustration . Amorbach: G. Volkhardtsche Druckerei, 1932
  • Arias Montano y el monumento al Duque de Alba . Madrid: Cruz y Raya, 1933 (new edition 1962)
  • Herta Muller: Des potences en Autriche l'héroïque insurrection du prolétariat autrichien . Paris: Éd. du SRI, 1934
  • Immanuel Kant : To Eternal Peace . In Everyman's German brought by Susanne Carwin. Wiesbaden: Limes, 1946
  • Susanne Carwin: The pilgrim . Novella. Wiesbaden, Limes, 1946
  • Susanne Carwin: Faith and Inquisition . Novel. London: Hutchinson, 1950
  • Susanne Carwin: Under the sun of Article 131 . In: Frankfurter Hefte , November 1956, pp. 789–797

literature

  • Schubart, Herta , in: Ulrike Wendland: Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Art Historians in Exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 625f.

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personal data
SURNAME Schubart, Herta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carwin, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Verden
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Munich