Irma Brandes

Irma Brandes , née Fiebig , (born February 4, 1905 in Berlin , † May 19, 1995 in Wiesbaden ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Irma Fiebig was born on February 4, 1905 in Berlin as the second of three children of Anna, b. Bolle and the military musician Eduard Fiebig. Her older sister Eva Fiebig (* 1900) was a well-known actress, her younger brother Kurt Fiebig (* 1908) was a renowned composer and church musician.

After graduating from school, she began a traineeship in the Berlin editorial team of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung in 1923 . A year later she continued her training at Scherl-Verlag . In 1926 she went to Beuthen (Upper Silesia) for the publishing house and took over the editing of the company's own women's magazine, Die Oberschlesische Hausfrau. Heimatblatt for women and girls of all classes . She wrote numerous articles on current women's issues for the magazine. In 1927 she was seconded to Leipzig as a correspondent for the Scherl Verlag . The following year, Irma Fiebig worked in Berlin as an editor in the press department of UFA . In 1929 she finally went to Frankfurt as Rhineland correspondent for Scherl-Verlag, and then to Cologne in 1930 , where she also worked as a freelance for other editorial offices.

In Cologne in 1932 she met the architect and senior site manager Robert Brandes , whom she married in 1933. After the National Socialists came to power , Robert Brandes made a career in Cologne. Initially active as 1st acting mayor, he was appointed 1st alderman of the city. He took over the department for construction and real estate and was appointed mayor of the city from 1937. From 1933 onwards, Irma Brandes-Fiebig wrote numerous articles for the Rheinische Blätter of the Kampfbund für Deutsche Kultur , of which she was temporarily responsible. In 1936 she stopped working and devoted herself to freelance writing.

Her first publication - a city guide through Cologne in the 1930s - she published in 1937. The work was published several times. After the Second World War , the city guide, cleared of Nazi text passages and adapted to the destruction of the city, was renamed Cologne. Face of day and dream re-laid .

In 1940 she took over the chairmanship of GEDOK in Cologne from Alice Neven DuMont , the community of visual artists to which she had belonged since the early 1930s.

After the Second World War, she shifted the focus of her writing to women's biographies during the Romantic era . She has also published poems, some of which were set to music by her brother Kurt Fiebig .

Irma Brandes spent the last few years in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg .

Works

• Cologne on the Rhine , Irma Brandes-Fiebig with Toni Feldenkirchen (1937)
• Cologne. City on the river (1940)
• Cologne. Face from Day and Dream (1956)
• I've lived a lot in these few days. Women of Romanticism , with Ursula Mauch (1968)
• Caroline . The life of Caroline von Schellin g (1970)
• Towards freedom. Women of Romanticism , with Ursula Mauch (1989)
• Nettles and jasmine. Women on Princely Thrones , with Ursula Mauch (1997)

Poems

• Alone With Us (1965)
• Around Us The Flood (1966)
• Beloved Companions (1980)
• Legend of a Love (1984)

Settings by Kurt Fiebig

• Hollyhocks, Champignon Capriccio : Duets based on texts by Irma Brandes
• Beloved Companions : Texts based on Irma Brandes
• Legend of a love

literature

• Alexander Hildebrand: To bring the chaos in your own breast to harmony ... Portrait of a romantic . In: Authors, Authors , Wiesbaden 1979, pp. 13-17

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . tape 3 . KG Saur, Berlin; New York; Boston 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-096113-3 , pp. 558 .
2. ^ Archives in NRW: Irma Brandes. Retrieved March 3, 2020 . 
3. ^ University of Cologne (ed.): History in Cologne . tape 47/48 . Cologne 2000, p. 78 .
4. ^ Joseph Kürschner: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 59th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1984, ISBN 978-3-11-085072-7 , pp. 133 .