Ilse Weber

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Ilse Weber

Ilse Weber , née Herlinger (born January 11, 1903 in Witkowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died October 6, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a Czechoslovak German-speaking Jewish writer.

Life

At the age of 14, Ilse Weber wrote her first Jewish children's fairy tales and small plays for children. These were published in German, Czech, Austrian and Swiss newspapers and magazines. In 1930 she married Willi Weber. On February 6, 1942, she was deported from Prague to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There she worked as a nurse in the children's hospital.

More poems were written in the camp. Famous, u. a. In 2007, interpreted by Anne Sofie von Otter , I wandered through Theresienstadt . Ilse Weber wrote this poem for her son Hanuš, "whom she had put on a train in Prague before the outbreak of war, in the hope of seeing him again one day".

Her son Hanuš Weber, born in 1931, was sent from the occupied protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to England on one of the child transports organized by the British Nicholas Winton in Prague and escaped annihilation. His mother and brother Tomas ("Tommy", born January 1, 1934) were murdered on October 6, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp . When going into the gas chamber, Weber is said to have sung the lullaby Wiegala , which she composed, for her son and the other children .

Works (selection)

  • The stories about Mendel Rosenbusch. Stories for Jewish Children. Färber, Mährisch-Ostrau 1929 (Ilse Herlinger).
  • The blue prince. Fairy tale game with song and dance in one act. Press commission of the Zionist Central Publishing House for the Czechoslovak Republic, Mährisch Ostrau 1928 (Ilse Herlinger).
  • Jewish children's fairy tales. Dr. Dyers, Mähr. Ostrau 1928 (Ilse Herlinger).
  • Children of love. , Roman, Norderstedt 2003
  • Suffering lives in your walls - poems from the Theresienstadt concentration camp. 1991.
  • When will the suffering come to an end? Letters and poems from Theresienstadt. Edited by Ulrike Migdal. Hanser, Munich 2008.
  • I wander through Theresienstadt. Songs for voice and piano. Based on the sources and edited. by Winfried Radeke . Schott, Mainz 2008.
  • Goodbye, comrade.
  • And the rain is running.
  • Wiegala.
  • The kick scooter race and other stories. 1927-1930.
  • Mendel Rosenbusch. Stories for Jewish Children. Translated by David Abramov, drawings by Özgür Erkök Moroder, afterword by Annegret Völpel, edited by Ulrich Leinz. Gans Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-946392-16-3 .

literature

  • Helga Čížková: Writer Ilse Weber and her fate in the war. Dissertation. Prague 2013. online
  • Jana Mikota: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: Ilse Weber and her Jewish fairy tales . In: Medaon 10/2012 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norman Lebrecht : The Gift of a Daughter. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Weber Tomas / Weber Tommy. In: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. Retrieved on May 22, 2020 (English, Tomas / Tommy Weber is listed twice: as Weber Tomas, born in 1934, residing in Prague, and as Weber Tomy, without a date of birth, residing in Witkowitz).
  3. ↑ Die Toten Hosen are reminiscent of Nazi terror with their classic style. In: The West . October 20, 2013, accessed May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herlinger, Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak German-speaking Jewish writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Vítkovice v Krkonoších
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp