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Ilse Schneider-Lengyel (born January 10, 1903 in Munich , † December 3, 1972 in Reichenau ) was a German photographer, art historian, ethnologist , surrealist poet, essayist and literary critic. The founding meeting of Group 47 took place in her house .

Ilse Schneider-Lengyel's house on the Bannwaldsee in the Allgäu, this is where "Gruppe 47" was founded. Photo from 2006.
Commemorative plaque for "Group 47" at the founding house
The Bannwaldsee seen from the Tegelberg

Life

Ilse Schneider-Lengyel was born in Munich as the daughter of Felix Schneider. She studied ethnology and art history in Munich and Berlin. She was trained as a photographer at the Munich “ Teaching and Research Institute for Photography ”. Since the 1930s she has been working as an art historian who takes photographs, especially plastic works of art and buildings. As a photographing ethnologist , she traveled to many countries, around 1957 to Syria and Iraq.

In 1933 she married the Hungarian architect and painter László Lengyel, and the following year the couple emigrated to France because of Lengyel's Jewish origins. When she wasn't traveling, Ilse Schneider-Lengyel lived and worked on the Bannwaldsee near Füssen in the Allgäu . She inherited the house and the lake, originally built in 1935 as a fishing hut on the lake shore and later converted, from her father in 1945. She led an unusual life for the time and the social norms of the conservative rural environment. She lived alone in the lake house, there were rumors about male acquaintances. She wore long trousers and flashy jewelry, and her fingernails were painted red. Sometimes she was even seen riding a motorcycle with her black hair down. The locals therefore only called the progressive and intelligent woman “the witch from Bannwaldsee”.

In the post-war period she also published surrealist poems, worked as a literary critic and wrote essays in several literary magazines.

In the 1960s she withdrew from the public and the literary business. She sold both the house and the lake. In the last years of her life she was housed in the Reichenau State Psychiatric Hospital , where she died on December 3, 1972, seriously ill.

The group 47

On the weekend of September 6th and 7th, 1947 , at her invitation, a group of 17 writers came together for a meeting. This first conference, actually planned as an editorial meeting for the publication of the literary magazine Der Skorpion , was the hour of birth of Group 47 . But probably none of the participants suspected that at the time. None of the writers and poets who later became famous through Group 47 were present at this meeting. In the shortage of the post-war period , a lot had to be improvised: “ You would have to bring food stamps and supplies for breakfast . Anyone who can do bed linen, ”Ilse Schneider-Lengyel informed the group leader, Hans Werner Richter, as a precaution . The group of writers traveled from a great distance, partly on a truck powered by wood gas, and partly on bus drivers being bribed with cigarettes. Schneider-Lengyel fetched the pike for dinner herself from the lake, whose fishing rights she held.

Schneider-Lengyel performed “The God of Beats” in the group. She also made two contributions for the zero number of the planned Skorpion magazine . More than this zero number has never appeared because the Allied military authorities refused to approve it.

Schneider-Lengyel's surrealist poetry met with certain doubts and incomprehension even among members of the literary meeting at Bannwaldsee, although the poetic power and beauty of these poems were recognized. Ilse Schneider-Lengyel was active in Group 47 until 1950. After the text september-phase from 1952, she tried in vain to get publications, including at Stahlberg Verlag . She maintained contacts with Paul Celan , Arno Schmidt and André Malraux . She attended a meeting of Group 47 for the last time in 1957.

Text sample

word

unable to speak, the witches fly out of the houses
the iron bars of the huts come out of the ground
protect yourself against the breathless eyelids of
the if-wolves the word is an inexplicable
sound it made people sick.

(from: september-phase, 1952)

Participant in the founding meeting

Aftermath

Ilse Schneider-Lengyel was practically forgotten after her death. It was thought that only a few of her works and personal records had survived. It was not until the 1990s, in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Group 47, that their legacy with many manuscripts, photos and letters was discovered in the Bavarian State Archives in Munich. This led to a return to her work and the assumption that Schneider-Lengyel's influence on the early Group 47 seems to have been much greater than was previously known. On the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of Group 47, their works were shown for the first time in an exhibition. At Ilse Schneider-Lengyel's house, a memorial plaque was attached to the birthplace of Group 47. The house has been located in the middle of a campsite (Münchner Str. 151) since 1987 and belongs to the municipality of Schwangau and the district of Ostallgäu.

In 1983 the Allgäu writer Gerhard Köpf , who still knew Schneider-Lengyel personally, used her life as a template for his first novel Innerfern . The protagonist is called Karlina Piloti.

Inspired by the work of Peter Braun, lecturer in literature at the University of Konstanz, the Konstanz director Marie-Luise Hinterberger developed a multimedia, cross-border installation project on the life and work of Ilse Schneider as part of the international Lake Constance Festival 2008 under the title Die kleine Spanne Spiel -Lengyel.

Works

A large number of manuscripts and photos as well as numerous letters addressed to them are in the Bavarian State Library in Munich, an overall assessment is still pending. The following list is therefore not complete.

Art historical, ethnological and photographic works

  • The world of the mask. (Text and recording) R. Piper, Munich 1934.
  • The face of the German Middle Ages. Photographs from German domes. (Text and recording) Bruckmann, Munich 1935.
  • Têtes de statues gothiques. (= Editions d'histoire et d'art). Plon, Paris 1935.
  • L'art italy; chefs-d'œuvre de la sculpture. (= Editions d'histoire et d'art). (Recording and foreword) Text: Emmanuel Sougez. [Loose-leaf edition]. Plon, Paris 1935.
  • Greek terracottas. (Text and recording) Bruckmann, Munich 1936.
  • Le Chateau et le parc de Versailles. (Ed .; Text: Andre Chamson) Plon, Paris 1936.
  • Le Cathedrale d'Amiens. (Recording) Plon, Paris 1937.
  • Auguste Rodin. (Record) Phaidon, London 1939. (since then several new editions)
  • Michelangelo sculptures. Phaidon, London 1940.
  • Roman portraits. (Text and recording) Allen & Unwin, London 1940. (and: Oxford University Press, New York); (since then several new editions)
  • Etruscan Sculptures. Phaidon, London 1942.
  • The sculptor Rodin. Gauss, Munich 1943.
  • Donatello as a sculptor. Édition Albert Lévy, Paris 1944.
  • Ghiberti. Sculptor. Édition Albert Lévy, Paris 1948.
  • Greek coins. Phaidon, London 1950.
  • Masques primitifs. (= Collection Psyché. 3). (Text and recording) Plon, Paris 1951.
  • Assyria. (= L'univers des Formes). (partial recording; text: André Parrot) Librairie Gallimard, Paris 1961.

Literary works

  • The lunar journalist. Narrative. In: The reputation. 15, 1947.
  • Playground and desert. Poems. Knaeps, Baden-Baden 1949.
  • september phase. (= studio frankfurt. 3). Poems and Photographs. Frankfurt publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1952.
  • strands. In: The German literature. 1945-1960. Volume 2: Double Life, 1949–1952. R 01, 1995, p. 499.
  • to flee. In: The German literature. 1945-1960. Volume 2: Double Life, 1949–1952. R 01, 1995, p. 498.
  • dose. In: The German literature. 1945-1960. Volume 2: Double Life, 1949–1952. R 01, 1995, p. 498.
  • bunker. In: The German literature. 1945-1960. Volume 2: Double Life, 1949–1952. R 01, 1995, p. 498.
  • Surname. In: The German literature. 1945-1960. Volume 2: Double Life, 1949–1952. R 01, 1995, p. 497.
  • Jean Paul Sartre - Surrealism and the Antisartrists. Essay. In: Scorpio. (Zero number)
  • Paul Valery . Essay. In: Scorpio. (Zero number)

literature

  • Gerhard Köpf: Innerfern. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-22333-4 .
  • Hans Werner Richter (ed.): The scorpion. H. 1, vol. 1, January 1948. (Reprint: Wallstein, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-89244-027-1 )
  • Gerhard Köpf: An Asphodele. About Ilse Schneider-Lengyel. In: literature for readers. 19, Issue 1, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996, pp. 32-45.
  • City of Füssen (Cultural Office) (Ed.): Ilse Schneider-Lengyel. Art historian, ethnologist, photographer and poet. From the estate of Ilse Schneider-Lengyel. a documentation of the event series "50 Years of Group 47" of the city of Füssen and the municipality of Schwangau from October 2nd to 5th, 1997 - special exhibition in the museum of the city of Füssen; Füssen: Cultural Office of the City of Füssen, 1997
  • Thomas Riedmiller: Ilse Schneider-Lengyel: their significance for the "Group 47" and their family ties to Füssen. In: The Alt Füssen yearbook. Füssen 1997, pp. 188-194.
  • Bernhard Setzwein : The George Sand vom Bannwaldsee: a portrait of Ilse Schneider-Lengyel (manuscript of the series "Bavaria - Land and People"). Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1997.
  • Toni Richter: Group 47 in pictures and texts. 2nd Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02630-5 .
  • Rosmarie Mair: Visiting Ilse Schneider-Lengyel: the first meeting of Group 47 at the Bannwaldsee near Füssen. (= Literary circles in the region. 2). In: The Schwabenspiegel. 3, Augsburg 2002, pp. 191-199.
  • Eva Chrambach:  Schneider-Lengyel, Ilse Maria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 311 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Helmut Böttiger : Group 47, when German literature made history. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04315-3 , pp. 18-26. (with portrait photo of Ilse Schneider-Lengyel)
  • Felix Thürlemann : Findings of the eye. Ilse Schneider-Lengyel and Ludwig Goldschneider transform Michelangelo's sculptures into a book. In: Caspar Hirschi, Carlo Spoerhase: lead desert and flood of images: stories about the humanities book. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10474-6 , pp. 161f.
  • Alfons Maria Arns, Heike Drummer: I was born a rebel. Use Schneider-Lengyel. Photographer. Art historian, ethnologist, poet ... and Group 47 in Schwangau. Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-055593-0 .
  • Peter Braun: Ilse Schneider-Lengyel. Photographer, ethnologist, poet. A portrait. Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3390-1 .

Web links

Commons : Ilse Schneider-Lengyel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eva Cham Brach: Schneider-Lengyel, Ilse - German biography. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Peter Mayr: Die Hex 'vom Bannwaldsee . Allgäu-Kurier, No. 208 . Schwangau September 9, 2017 ( gruppe47.de [PDF]).
  3. ^ Franz Josef Görtz: poet and judge. An exhibition by Group 47 in the Berlin Academy of the Arts . Ed .: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 2nd, 1988.
  4. ^ Ilse Schneider-Lengyel estate directory. (PDF) Bavarian State Library, accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Gerhard Köpf: Innerfern. Novel - . ( culturbooks.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schneider-Lengyel, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, art historian, ethnologist, surrealist poet, essayist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1972
Place of death Reichenau