Hertha Pauli

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Grave of Hertha Pauli and her family in the Döblinger Friedhof

Hertha Pauli (born September 4, 1906 in Vienna , † February 9, 1973 in Long Island , New York ) was an actress, author and journalist.

Life

Hertha Pauli was the daughter of the journalist and women's rights activist Berta "Maria" Schütz (1878–1927) and a doctor and university professor of colloidal chemistry , Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (1869–1955), who came from a Jewish publishing family in Prague, but converted to Catholicism was (his original name was Wolf Pascheles). Her brother was the physics Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli . She worked as an actress, anti-fascist activist, author and journalist.

From 1927 to 1933 Pauli played under Max Reinhardt in Berlin. She was u. a. friends with Walter Mehring and Ödön von Horváth . After von Horváth told her about his impending marriage to Maria Elsner , she tried to kill herself. From 1933 to 1938 she worked in Vienna as an editor for the Austrian Correspondence and published biographical novels ( Toni, a woman's life for Ferdinand Raimund , Nur eine Frau. Bertha von Suttner ).

After the "Anschluss" of Austria, she emigrated to France. In Paris she belonged to Joseph Roth's circle of friends and made the acquaintance of the American journalist Eric Sevareid . Via Marseille, the Pyrenees and Lisbon, she came to the USA in 1940 through the intermediation of a visa by the Emergency Rescue Committee , where she was best known as a young adult book author. I.a. she explained to American children in Silent Night. The Story of a Song (1943) the origin of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night or wrote a personal story of the Statue of Liberty with I lift my lamp . She married EB Ashton (1909-1983), with whom she worked on a biography of Alfred Nobel. In her last book, The Rift of Time Goes Through My Heart (1970), three decades later she dealt with the last days before the “Anschluss” and the time that followed.

Hertha Pauli now rests together with her husband, her mother and her grandmother, the opera singer Bertha Schütz-Dillner (1847–1916), in an honorary grave in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Other works (selection)

  • Toni. A woman's life for Ferdinand Raimund , 1936
  • Just one woman. Bertha von Suttner , 1937
  • Alfred Nobel, Dynamite King, Architect of Peace , 1942
  • Silent Night. The Story of a Song , 1943
  • I lift my lamp , 1948 (not translated into German)
  • Christmas book. A song from heaven , 1954
  • Story of the Christmas tree , 1957
  • Youth after , 1959
  • A tree from heaven , 1964
  • The Secret of Sarajevo , 1966
  • The rift of time runs through my heart , 1970

Web links

Commons : Hertha Pauli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Stern, Guy: Hertha Pauli. In: Stern, Guy: Literatur im Exil, Vol. 2. Ismaning 1989.
  • Bauer, Barbara / Dürney, Renate: Walter Mehring and Hertha Pauli in exile. In: Benz, Wolfgang: German-Jewish. Exile. The end of assimilation. Berlin 1994.
  • Brantl, Sabine: Hertha Pauli or "We are at home in the ocean". A biographical sketch. Munich 1998.
  • Tunner, Erika: Hertha Pauli et ses compagnons de route. In: Austriaca. Cahiers Universitaires sur l'Autriche. Nov 1984, No. 19, 10th year. Pp. 119-132.
  • Frucht, Karl: Notice of loss. A survival report. Vienna 1992. (Report by Hertha Pauli's close friend)
  • Mehring, Walter: We have to move on. Fragments from exile, 1979. Report on the exile in France that he experienced with Hertha Pauli, to whom he dedicated his “Letters from Midnight” (1937–1941).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hertha Pauli: Break of Time , Hawthorn Books, New York, NY, 1972, pp. 45f
personal data
SURNAME Pauli, Hertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American actress, anti-fascist activist, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1973
Place of death Long Island , New York