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Book bazaar with Ilse Korn and Willi Meinck in Berlin at the folk festival on May 1, 1954 in the pioneer park "Ernst Thälmann" Wuhlheide

Ilse Korn , b. Truöl , pseudonym Cornelia Holm (born April 23, 1907 in Dresden , † June 14, 1975 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German writer.

Life

Ilse Truöl grew up as one of three daughters of tax advisor Willy Truöl and his wife Margarethe in Dresden. After completing school, she learned the profession of librarian in Leipzig from 1925 to 1927 . Subsequently she got a job at the Saxon State Library in Dresden, where she worked until her arrest in 1943. The book burning on May 10, 1933 in Dresden aroused their opposition and the desire to do something against the Nazis .

At a secret meeting of Nazi opponents in 1935 she met Vilmos Korn , a communist writer and journalist living in illegality , whom she soon married. As she was not allowed to name the father of her daughter Nina Madlen (born June 19, 1938), she had to leave her daughter with foster parents in Hinterstein ( Allgäu ) until 1941 . In the summer of 1943, a few weeks after her husband, she was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned until 1945. On the night of February 13, 1945, during the Anglo-American bombing raid on Dresden, she escaped from the Dresden women's prison because imprisoned comrades were able to unlock the cell door at the last minute. Without papers and ration cards, she managed - with the courageous support of her two sisters - to hide in the Ore Mountains until the end of the war . It was not until May 8, 1945 that she was able to hug her daughter again and, some time later, her husband.

As early as June 1945 Ilse Korn was appointed head of the Dresden State Library by the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD), a few months later she was a librarian for the State of Saxony and in April 1946 a librarian for the public and lending library and co-founder of the journal “Volksbibliothekar ". On 27./28. November 1947 she was the conference leader of the 1st Saxon Library Conference and gave a lecture on "Time Issues in Public Library Work". In 1949 she was the head of the Saxon State Office for Libraries and the intellectual author of the "Law on the Democratization of Libraries". In 1951, she was to Berlin to the Ministry of Education appointed the GDR. She took over the leadership of a special commission charged with setting up libraries for children across the country. However, since she was unable to combine writing and work in the ministry in terms of time, she resigned there “for personal reasons” in 1952 and henceforth worked as a freelance author.

Since 1950 Ilse Korn lived with her family in Kleinmachnow near Potsdam and in the years to come she appeared more and more often as a storyteller . In the beginning this happened rather by chance, because at the numerous opening events of the children's libraries she often sat in front of the children - in the absence of books from which one could read - and told fairy tales, mostly completely unknown, from distant lands. She told everything from memory, full of temperament and humor, with an almost inexhaustible vocabulary. The audience - children and adults - were so enthusiastic about her storytelling that she was invited more and more often to act as a storyteller. Sometimes up to 100 children and their teachers or parents came to Ilse Korn's “Fairy Tale Hours in the House of German-Soviet Friendship” in Berlin (today Palais am Festungsgraben ). Ilse Korn was the first storyteller of fairy tales in the GDR, known and loved far beyond the city limits and remained so until her death in June 1975.

Works

  • 1952 It all started with Bärbel
  • 1955 fairy tale hours. A guide for teachers, educators and pioneer leaders
  • 1955 fairy tales for the youngest. A fairy tale collection for the kindergarten teacher and parents
  • 1957 Queen in linen dress. 34 fairy tales of the clever and lovable women (selected and retold many times)
  • 1957 The three black swans. A Kyrgyz fairy tale (explanations for the illustrated book)
  • 1957 The brave Wai. A fairy tale about the sea and big animals (explanations for the illustrated book)
  • 1962 Mohr and the Ravens of London (together with Vilmos Korn)
  • 1967 The falcon under the hat. All sorts of fairy tales and stories from jokers, rascals and other clever people (compilation and editing)
  • 1968 Master Hans Röckle and Mister Flammfuß (together with Vilmos Korn)
  • 1973 Across the ice from Ladoga

Two of her books were filmed by DEFA :

Honor

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personal data
SURNAME Korn, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holm, Cornelia (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1975
Place of death Kleinmachnow