Hulda Pankok

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Hulda Pankok (born February 20, 1895 in Bochum ; † September 8, 1985 in Drevenack ; born Hulda Droste ) was a journalist and publisher and married to the artist Otto Pankok .

life and work

Hulda Pankok was born as Hulda Droste in Bochum. Her father was a teacher and journalist for the Dortmund General-Anzeiger . The mother Julie Droste , b. Sassenberg was a theater critic and the daughter of a mine director. Hulda Droste had five older siblings.

Hulda Droste went to the secondary school for girls. After graduating from high school, she studied literature and art history at the University of Jena . She then worked briefly as a librarian in Bochum and Essen. In Bochum , she set up the first children's library. Her brother, the publisher Heinrich Droste , asked her to work on his newspaper “Düsseldorfer Stadtanzeiger”, later “ Der Mittag ”. She followed this request and came to Düsseldorf in 1919 , where she worked as a feature section editor. She also wrote for the “Gladbach-Rheydter Zeitung”, for “Schacht. West German weekly for art, science and popular education ”and the“ spotlight. Leaves of the city stages Essen ”.

Hulda Droste got to know Otto Pankok through an interview. In 1921 they married and in 1925 their daughter Eva was born. In addition to her work in various newspapers, she later worked as a freelancer for radio . In 1929 she traveled to Spain on behalf of the radio station and wrote twelve radio lectures about the painter El Greco . The cultural supplement Geistiges Leben im “Mittag” is her development, from her book reviews about authors of the present and women of the 19th century as well as analyzes of the art scene appear. Hulda was friends with Else Lasker-Schüler and with Louise Dumont .

Like her husband, she was banned from working in 1936 and continued to write for church newspapers under the pseudonym Anna Sasse and Henriette Reiser . The family then lived first in Gildehaus (Bad Bentheim) , in the Emsland and, from 1942, in a small farmhouse near Pesch in the Eifel , where they hid other persecuted people and others. a. the painter Mathias Barz and his Jewish wife Hilde nee Stein , who had been an actress in Düsseldorf.

After the Second World War, Hulda founded the Drei-Eulen-Verlag in Düsseldorf in 1946 . He was the first art book publisher in Germany after the war. The name referred to the family consisting of three people. By 1952 the publisher had published over thirty works of art and world literature. For her books of contemplation and rest , she receives the necessary paper quotas without any problems. Due to the consequences of the currency reform , the publishing house is dissolved.

In 1947 Otto Pankok accepted a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Hulda co-founded the German Women's Party in March 1951. From 1953 she became involved in the All-German People's Party founded by Helene Wessel and Gustav Heinemann . In gratitude for her attitude during the Nazi era, she was the first German to be invited by the women of Yugoslavia after the Second World War. She published her travel report in 1961 as Yugoslavian experiences .

In 1958, after Otto Pankok had finished his professorship, the whole family moved to Haus Esselt near Drevenack on the Lower Rhine , where Otto Pankok worked as an artist and died in 1966. In 1968, Hulda Pankok and her daughter Eva opened the Otto Pankok Museum in her husband's studio in Drevenack .

Honors

The Düsseldorf City Museum honored her in February 1985 on her 90th birthday. The Hulda Pankok Comprehensive School in Düsseldorf is named after her.

2013: The Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem honors Hulda Pankok and her husband Otto Pankok with the title “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.

literature

  • Antje Kahnt: Düsseldorf's strong women - 30 portraits Droste, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7700-1577-1 , pp. 97-102.
  • Ariane Neuhaus-Koch: Hulda Pankok: Towards oblivion. Women in the intellectual history of Düsseldorf. Life pictures and chronicles. Documentation of an exhibition in the women's culture archive. Ahasvera, Neuss 1989, ISBN 978-3927720015 .
  • Eva Pankok: My life. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-1272-5
  • Hulda Pankok: "From my life with Otto Pankok", audio book edition, Dehnen Verlag, 1976
  • Hulda Pankok: Lecture from April 19, 1969 on the 100th birthday of Else Lasker-Schüler ; Preface by Eva Pankok. In "Hulda Pankok on her 100th birthday." Series of publications by the Otto Pankok Museum Drevenack , undated (1995).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berto Perotti : Meeting Otto Pankok . Progress-Verlag Johann Fladung GmbH, Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 12
  2. ↑ Hulda Pankok, 1895-1985: A life for education, knowledge, beauty Frauenruhrgeschichte, accessed on December 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Hulda Pankok , source: Towards forgetting. Women in the intellectual history of Düsseldorf. Life pictures and chronicles. Documentation of an exhibition in the women's culture archive. Neuss 1989, accessed December 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Michaela Breckenfelder: The Artist as ″ Theologian ″ - The religious didactic processing of suitable images by Otto Pankok for religious instruction , dissertation, University of Leipzig, 2011, p. 79 (digitized, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de : bsz: 15-qucosa-71292 )
  5. ↑ http://wwwalt.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/frauenarchiv/fka_neu/pankok/?text=1951 German Women's Party, Hulda Pankok Textforum, accessed on December 20, 2016
  6. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/region/das-gefaehrliche-geheimnis-der-pankoks-1.979127
personal data
SURNAME Pankok, Hulda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droste, Hulda (maiden name); Sasse, Anna (pseudonym); Reiser, Henriette (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1985
Place of death Drevenack