Ilona B. Benda

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Ilona B. Benda 1919 in her memorial against the First World War

Ilona Mari Benda , called Ilona Benda-Baranyai (born March 4, 1884 in Berlin , † after 1926); Pseudonym Ilona B. Benda , was a German-American journalist and author. She was a descendant of the Benda family of musicians and the Limbach family of actors .

Life

Ilona Benda-Baranyai's German mother was the language and music teacher (Josephina Maria) Louisa Benda (* 1854 in Düsseldorf), daughter of the opera singer Adolph Benda (* 1825) and the actress and singer Susanna Limbach (* 1827 in Rudolstadt; † 1912 in Houston / Texas).

With the support of her fiancé, the German-American professor of German studies at Harvard University , Karl Detlev Jessen (* 1872 in Winnemark / Schleswig-Holstein, † 1919 in Philadelphia ), Ilona Benda-Baranyai emigrated from her mother and grandmother in 1900 Long-term residence in Berlin via Hamburg to the USA. However, the marriage entered into in 1901 soon failed: Jessen went to the Bryn Mawr Collage, Philadelphia, Ilona Benda-Jessen lived with her mother and grandmother in Malden near Boston, where she joined the socialists . According to the Federal Archives, she corresponded with Natalie Liebknecht.

Houston 1910 with Chronicle building

In 1908 she moved to Houston / Texas , where she first called herself Miss Ilona Benda , then used different first name variations, possibly to disguise her origin because of the increasing anti-German hostility. She worked mostly for the Houston Chronicle , partly for the Galveston Daily News .

In 1919 Miss Ilona B. Benda published the patriotic memorial Our Community War Service Memorial, Houston and Harris County , in honor of the fallen soldiers of the First World War , in which she made her own conjuring contributions. She got involved in charities, was one of the initiators of the conversion of the former (soldier) Camp Logan into a memorial area in 1923, which is still a popular leisure and event park today. In 1924 she was a passionate co-founder of the Harris County Humane Society (later The Houston SPCA ).

Ilona B. Benda married Walter Frederick Kohenau in 1926 under her author's name . For the following years there were no entries in the Houston address books for either family name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth name, date and place of birth with registry office references at ancestry.de
  2. ↑ Short biography in the Karl D. Jessen papers , University of Pennsylvania
  3. ↑ Self-biographical note in Jessen's book Heinses Position on Fine Art and its Aesthetics on Google Books
  4. ↑ on June 27, 1900 with HAPAG steamer Belgravia , Hamburg passenger lists at ancestry.de.
  5. ^ Journal of Sociology , p. 72 (footnote).
  6. ↑ See Wikipedia in Malden, Massachusetts .
  7. ^ The Federal Archives, Wilhelm Liebknecht estate , here: Family members, correspondence Natalie Liebknecht, NY 4034/248, Vol. 4 (Ba - Bu), 1872-1904, Natalie Liebknecht correspondence estate at archivesportaleurope
  8. ↑ born Reh, wife of Wilhelm Liebknecht and mother of Karl Liebknecht .
  9. ↑ United States City Directories
  10. ^ History of the Germans in the United States .
  11. ↑ see American Wikipedia The Daily News (Galveston) .
  12. ^ Camp Logan, with two photos.
  13. ↑ see English Wikipedia Camp Logan .
  14. ^ Memorial Park Houston.
  15. ^ The Story of the Houston SPCA . ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.houstonspca.org
  16. ↑ Texas Marriages .
personal data
SURNAME Benda, Ilona B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benda, Ilona Mari (full name); Benda-Baranyai, Ilona (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1926