Ingeborg Euler

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Ingeborg Euler (born September 6, 1927 in Breslau ; † March 20, 2005 in Berlin-Kladow ) was a German television journalist .

Life

Ingeborg Euler started school in Dresden in 1934 , attended the Lyceum in Berlin-Steglitz from 1937 and graduated from high school in Zossen in 1942 . After the end of the Second World War , she became a new teacher in Brusendorf . In 1946 she was enrolled at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the student cabaret she appeared at the side of Ursula Herking and Jo Herbst . It was discovered in terms of literature in February 1948 by a committee of the Kulturbund, which had advertised young authors to send in unprinted texts. Your text Between Today and Tomorrow was printed in 1948 in the youth magazine Horizont . Her short story I wanted to drive to Wannsee, which was awarded by the Kulturbund , appeared in the July 1949 issue of the Ost und West magazine .

In 1948 she was arrested on the basis of a letter to the Allied city command and was only released after eleven days, with Johannes R. Becher , Gustav von Wangenheim and Günther Weisenborn standing up for her. She moved to the American Zone in Munich , where she appeared as a young cabaret artist in the Munich cabaret theater "Simpl" with Thomas Gnielka , who set her texts to music and accompanied her on the piano . They married in 1949 and had five children between 1950 and 1962. The family, which had grown to seven people, lived in the "Dillenberger Mühle" in the Herold community near Wiesbaden from 1963 .

In 1949 Euler was invited to the meeting of Group 47 in Utting am Ammersee , where she read the Wannsee text and the poem Who Was Andreas - an obituary for her childhood sweetheart. In 1956 she published her kitchen stories . Gnielka worked as a local editor for the Wiesbadener Kurier and the Frankfurter Rundschau, and from 1960 worked as a freelance political investigative journalist, locating important files for the Auschwitz trial and arranging for the arrest of concentration camp commandant Richard Baer , who had gone into hiding. Before and during the Auschwitz trial, which began on December 20, 1963, they quartered trial witnesses in Herold. The terrible things that had happened were regularly brought up on the table . Gnielka died in the middle of work in 1965. Euler moved with the children to Frankfurt am Main and in 1973 to West Berlin .

In 1960, Euler carried out orders for Hessischer Rundfunk for a historical documentary about the Second World War and for a television feature about work accidents in industry. 1965 followed u. a. Films about Georg Büchner (Danton), Heinrich von Kleist (Prince of Homburg) and the Easter marches. From 1969 she produced documentaries for ZDF , numerous artist portraits and articles for the culture magazine Aspects . From 1977 her half-hour "Berlin reports" (including Radfahrerstadt, Mommsen-corner Leibnizstrasse, state parade-city parade, Spreeufer in the southeast) and other films like "That belongs on the squares in the city", "The building is alive". In 1980 she lived in Oberhone in Northern Hesse in addition to Berlin-Charlottenburg , where she set up a studio and devoted herself to painting and sculpture. In 1994 she moved to Rangsdorf with her partner . She died on March 20, 2005 in Berlin. At the time of her death, she had 5 children, 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Writings / productions (selection)

  • Rizzled through the egg timer. Women’s stuff and kitchen stories. A nerve tone . Kumm, Offenbach 1962
  • The building is alive: the architecture of the anthroposophists . ZDF 1987
  • Visiting Jürgen Goertz . ZDF 1985
  • The dangerous legacy: 1945-1960; the war never stopped for the munitions clearance workers . [Video 2008]
  • Visiting ... Michael Schulze: Art is transformation . ZDF 1987

literature

  • Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Under the Emergency Roof: Post-War Literature in Berlin 1945-1949 . Schmidt, Berlin 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Gisela Hoffmann: A versatile artist from Rangsdorf: Ingeborg Euler , in: Allgemeine Anzeiger für Rangsdorf, Groß Machnow and Klein Kienitz, August 9, 2007
  2. Monika Melchert: "Mother Berlin" and her daughters , in: Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Unterm Notdach , 1996, p. 369
  3. Monika Melchert: "Mother Berlin" and her daughters , in: Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Unterm Notdach , 1996, p. 376
  4. Karin Siegmund: "... having something to say, even under thirty". Models for promoting young authors , in: Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Unterm Notdach , 1996, p. 450
  5. a b Monika Melchert: "Mother Berlin" and her daughters , in: Ursula Heukenkamp (Ed.): Unterm Notdach , 1996, p. 373
  6. Literary life. Database on literary life in the German-speaking countries 1945-2000 , at the University of Göttingen
  7. Claudia Michels: Eine Frankfurter Heldengeschichte , Frankfurter Rundschau , October 12, 2013, p. 24f