Ilse Dernburg

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Ilse Hedwig Dernburg , née Rosenberg (born May 13, 1880 in Berlin ; † 1964 or 1965 ), was a German interior designer and playwright .

life and work

Ilse Dernburg was the daughter of Else (1856–1922) and Hermann Rosenberg (1847–1917), a banker and long-time co-owner of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft . Mother Else was a sister of Hedwig Pringsheim geb. Dohm, Katia Mann's mother .

In 1900, as a young interior designer, Ilse married the twelve years older architect Hermann Dernburg , a brother of Bernhard Dernburg . In 1914 the marriage was divorced again.

Numerous interior design designs and designs by Ilse Dernburg, who lives in Berlin-Tiergarten , are documented, such as the design of a tea table or tea room from 1910. She designed a bathroom for the first major German women's exhibition “Women in Home and Work” in Berlin in 1912 as well as the “reading room” in the “youth home” of the exhibition. Shortly before the beginning of the First World War , she designed various interiors of the express steamer Imperator , including the so-called "Kaiserzimmer".

Ilse Dernburg, who was in close contact with Thomas Mann's family related to her , also wrote stage works that, in retrospect, her niece Elisabeth Mann Borgese classified as “sexy” and “indecent”. This includes the comedy Die Eiserne Jungfrau, which premiered in Berlin's Rose Theater in 1932 . "The piece is alive", so the Prussian yearbooks in their review, "from the comedy of an evil house dragon" and received mixed reviews: The Berliner 8-Uhr-Abendblatt delivered a devastating slap.

In 1939 Ilse Dernburg emigrated to London with her sister, the translator Käthe Rosenberg (1883–1960) . After the Second World War , she lived with her sister in Switzerland , where she died in an old people's home on Lake Lucerne .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin III birth register, 1880, entry No. 786
  2. ↑ Joachim Heimannsberg, Peter Laemmle, Wilfried F. Schoeller (eds.): Klaus Mann. Diaries 1931 to 1933. Munich 1989; Erika Mann: My father, the magician. Reinbek 1996.
  3. ↑ Peter de Mendelssohn: The magician. The life of the German writer Thomas Mann. Second part: years of limbo. 1919 and 1933. Frankfurt / M. 1992; Inge Jens (Ed.): Thomas Mann. Diaries. Frankfurt / M. 1995; Monika Mann: The moving house. From the life of a world citizen. Reinbek 2007.
  4. ↑ Martin Gregor-Dellin (Ed.): Klaus Mann. Letters and Answers. Munich 1975.
  5. ↑ a b Heinz J. Armbrust, Gert Heine: Who is who in the life of Thomas Mann? A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 54.
  6. ↑ Peter de Mendelsohn: Thomas Mann. Diaries. Volume 5, Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 912 note.
  7. ↑ Dernburg, Ilse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 1, p. 498. “Matthäikirchstrasse 4”.
  8. ↑ Interiors by Ilse Dernburg. In: Interior decoration 1912, pp. 263–269.
  9. ↑ Aesthetic tea tables. In: Berliner Tageblatt (morning edition) of March 2, 1910, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Gudrun Marlene König: The gender of things. Strategies of visualization in material culture. In: Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Schamma Schahadat (Ed.): Put in words, put in pictures. Gender in Science, Art and Literature. Bielefeld 2007, p. 108ff .; Despina Stratigakos: A women's Berlin. Building the modern city. Minneapolis MN 2007, p. 117.
  11. ↑ Despina Stratigakos: A women's Berlin. Building the modern city. Minneapolis MN 2007, p. 124.
  12. ↑ The Painter and Decorator , 29, 1915, p. 48. Ulrich Bücholdt: Women in Architecture on kmkbuecholdt.de (2003-2010).
  13. ^ A b Heinrich Breloer: On the way to the Mann family. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 88.
  14. ^ Prussian year books , 229–230, 1932, p. 86.
  15. ↑ Harry Balkow-Gölitzer : Prominent in Berlin-Westend and their stories. Berlin 2007, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Dernburg, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dernburg, Ilse Hedwig (full name); Rosenberg, Ilse Hedwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German interior designer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1964 or 1965