Ida Bender

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Ida Bender born Hollmann, photo 2010, Hamburg.

Ida Bender (born June 18, 1922 in Rothammel, Russian Ротгаммель also: Памятное , Pamjatnoje , Volga-German Republic , today a desert in the Schirnowsk Rajon , Volgograd Oblast, Russia , as Ida Hollmann; † November 12, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a Russian-German writer and member of the VS - Association of German Writers .

Life

Ida Bender was born in the Volga German village of Rothammel (today Pamjatnoje / Памятное) into the family of a teacher. From 1932 the family lived in Engels , where their father Dominik Hollmann worked as a lecturer (later also dean of the Faculty for German Language and Literature) at the German University of Education in Engels.

In 1940 she graduated from the German Model School No. 10 in Engels and began studying at the 1st Leningrad Pedagogical College for Foreign Languages, which was ended when she was deported in 1941. In the following years she did trud army service on the northern Yenisei , where she was employed as a fisherwoman, lumberjack, hauler and porter. From 1948 she lived with her family under command supervision in the Northern Urals .

When the German-language newspaper Friendship was founded in Zelinograd (today Nur-Sultan) in 1965 , she became a translator and literary employee of the editorial team.

In 1973 she moved to Kamyshin on the Volga, where, together with her father and Viktor Herdt, the editor of the literature department of the Moscow magazine Neues Leben , she founded the “New Life Readers Club” - one of the first cultural associations of Russian Germans in the USSR after 1945.

Her whole life she fought tirelessly for the preservation of the German mother tongue and culture in Russia and was an active participant in the movement of the Russian- Germans for the restoration of the Volga German Republic .

In 1991 she moved to Germany, where she contributed to breaking down prejudices against Germans from Russia with her lectures in various institutions (Lions clubs, universities, parishes, offices of the German Red Cross, etc.) on the history of the Russian-German ethnic group.

Ida Bender's main work is the biographical novel Schön ist die Jugend ... bei happy times (Russian title: "Сага о немцах моих российских", "Saga about my Russian-German people"), in which she uses the example of her own family to tell the story of the Russian Germans from the describes the first German colonists on the lower Volga in the 18th century until their return to Germany in 1991. Readers of the book referred to it as an encyclopedia and chronicle of the Russian-German people.

Ida Bender died on November 12, 2012 at the age of 90 in Hamburg.

Major works

  • The Dark Abyss of Exile: A Story of Survival. Germans from Russia Heritage Collection NDSU, North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota 2000, ISBN 1-891193-11-2 (English).
  • The youth are beautiful ... in happy times. Biographical novel, 2010, Geest, Vechta, ISBN 978-3-86685-195-5 .
  • "Сага о немцах моих российских", издательство - Saga o nemcach moich rossijskich. Oerlinghausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814966-1-1 (Russian).

literature

  • Literature sheets by German authors from Russia. Almanach 2006, Geest-Verlag, ISBN 3-86685-007-7 .
  • Literature sheets by German authors from Russia. Almanac 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814966-5-9 .
  • Ida Bender. Festschrift for the 85th birthday. Literature Circle of Germans from Russia, Bonn 2007.
  • Helmut Kujawa: Ida Bender: Living history in Harburg. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 18, 2002 ( abendblatt.de ).
  • Night: Anthology for the First Bruges Literature Autumn. Geest-Verlag, Vechta-Langförden 2007, ISBN 978-3-86685-085-9 .
  • Anthology REMINDER. Geest-Verlag, ISBN 3-938882-02-6 .
  • Edmund Mater: The author's lexicon of Russian Germans. Lichtzeichenverlag, ISBN 978-3-936850-91-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ротгаммель (Сейчас не существует.) (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollmann, Ida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothammel, Volga German Republic
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2012
Place of death Hamburg