Hildegard Piscator

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Hildegard Piscator (born February 8, 1900 in Königshütte as Hildegard Erna Irene Jurczyk , † April 23, 1970 in Munich as Hildegard Plievier ) was an actress and writer .

Life

She was born on February 8, 1900 in Königshütte and grew up in East Prussia and Silesia . Jurczyk attended an upper lyceum in Königsberg . According to her parents' wishes, she was supposed to become a teacher , but instead secretly took acting classes. Leopold Jessner , artistic director at the Neues Schauspielhaus Königsberg, engaged her as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust after a student performance . She worked as an actress on the stage for three years. At the short-lived Königsberg theater project "Das Tribunal" she met the young director and later representative of the political theater Erwin Piscator , whom she married in October 1919. The Piscators went to Berlin in 1920 and in 1927 created their own place of work in the Piscator stage .

Shortly after the mutual separation from her first husband, Hildegard Piscator married the writer Theodor Plievier in Berlin in 1931 . After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the couple fled to Sweden to avoid the threat of arrest by the Nazis . In 1934 the Plieviers received an invitation to stay in the Soviet Union for several months . There they lived in Paulskoje in the Volga German Republic , in Moscow , Leningrad and in Tashkent . Without a valid passport, they were forced to stay in the country until the end of World War II . Hildegard Plievier later interpreted the phase of emigration with her second husband in the Soviet Union as lost years: “A path that had repeatedly been an escape, a path through fourteen years. I've always been a marginal figure on this long journey. ”During this time, she was involved in breeding dogs.

After the war, the Plieviers were given Weimar as their place of residence. In 1947 the couple moved to the West German occupation zones in Munich. According to Hildegard Plievier, at the instigation of the Interior Ministry of the USSR, two unsuccessful attempts were made to force them back into the Soviet occupation zone and later GDR . After separating from Theodor Plievier in the late 1940s, Hildegard Plievier lived as a writer in Munich. She wrote several novels, including about her time when she emigrated to the Soviet Union.

Works

  • My dogs and me . Heinrich Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1957 (= With my dogs in Russia . Hammond, London 1961).
  • Yellow moon over the steppe . Heinrich Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1958.
  • Escape to Tashkent . Heinrich Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1960.
  • A life lived and lost . Heinrich Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1960 (= my dogs and I and escape to Tashkent ).
  • Limits of love . Dörner, Düsseldorf 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Killy Literature Lexicon, Vol. 9 (2010)
  2. ↑ The living conditions of the Piscators in Berlin aroused the interest of the tabloid media at the time, see for example Hildegard Piscator: Das Heim Piscators. A no-nonsense apartment . In: Die Dame , 55th year, No. 14 (April 1928). Pp. 10-12.
  3. ↑ Hildegard Plievier: A life lived and lost . Novel. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lesering o. J. (Original edition: Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Scheffler 1960). P. 413.
  4. ↑ Hildegard Plievier: A life lived and lost . Novel. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lesering or JS 401-413.
personal data
SURNAME Piscator, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jurczyk, Hildegard Erna Irene (maiden name); Plievier, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigshütte
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1970
Place of death Munich