Irma Loos

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Irma Loos (birth name and pseudonym of Irma Hain * 21st July 1907 in Insterburg / East Prussia , unknown date of death) was in Munich living German writer with some non-critical, partly critical sympathy for the Soviet- dominated socialism and in particular the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Born in Insterburg / East Prussia, Irma Loos lived in Tilsit, today's Sovetsk , until the end of the Second World War , in a middle-class situation, against which, according to the later GDR reading, she repeatedly revolted. As a result of the post-war expulsions, she moved to Munich.

Her first publications, stories with autobiographical features, date from 1941 to 1944. After she resumed her writing activities in 1950 with the post-war novel Kleiner Zirkus, published in Nuremberg , she made her debut in the GDR in 1951: in January in the literary magazine Sinn und Form and in October at Aufbau Verlag . In the fall of 1951 she traveled to Bucharest , Sinaia , Kronstadt (Brașov) , Ploieşti , and Konstanza (Constanța) in a Soviet German delegation, which also included Ludwig Renn , from which a report book was created. Her last book, Sleeper and Crouching Woman , is written in the manner of the Japanese lady-in-waiting, Sei Shonagon , who wrote a diary .

In addition to author meetings and political events in both West and East Germany, she also took part in the “East-West German Writer's Talk” in March 1951 in Starnberg . Likewise in May 1951 at the 1st All-German Culture Congress in Leipzig . Furthermore at the world festival of youth and students of the socialist countries in August 1951 in East Berlin and in the same city on III. German Writers' Congress , which was held in May 1952. Found politically misguided in the FRG , she also messed up with the GDR intellectuals after she sharply criticized Johannes R. Becher's battle sonnet Mord in Essen and the admission offer of the nominally still all-German PEN center , allegedly with the reason it was "too ostzonal", had given her a rejection.

So she suddenly sat between the chairs and disappeared from view and consequently also from the public consciousness. She found time to finish or write three novels, after which she only appeared as a private person under her married name Irma Hain, like a letter to the editor to Die Zeit , in which she relativized the previously published tribute to the retired Hans Globke , occupied.

reviews

While it was officially said of their reports, essays and appeals in the GDR that they were testimony to “our honest efforts for a good life”, critics spoke - in each case condensed - of “ propaganda ”, “communist free-riding”, “outrageous trivialization "," Unscrupulous tendency literature "and" political stupidity ".

Works

  • 1941: The Lives of Women , Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig (story).
  • 1943: The reunion , Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig (story).
  • 1944: During the big holidays , Staackmann Verlag, Leipzig (story).
  • 1950: Kleiner Zirkus , Nest-Verlag, Nuremberg (novel).
  • 1951: narrative interrupted several times in 1950 . In: Sense and Form. Contributions to literature , issue 1/1951, pp. 133–163 (story).
  • 1951: Diary sheets , Aufbau Verlag, Berlin (essay).
  • 1952: Romanian diary 1951 , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt , Frankfurt am Main (report).
  • 1953: Inexpressible Joy , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main (novel).
  • 1953: Sleeper and crouching woman. A pillow book from around the middle of the 20th century , Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main (Roman).
  • 1956: Unspeakable Joy , Die Brigg, Basel (novel)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [A] nna [S] tüssi: Loos . In: Heinz Rupp , Carl Ludwig Lang (ed.): German Literature Lexicon . Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . founded by Wilhelm Kosch . third, completely revised edition. Volume 9: Kober – Lucidarius. Francke Verlag, Bern / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7720-1538-7 , Sp. 1652 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ru .: VII. Irma Loos . In: Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels zu Leipzig (Hrsg.): Börsenblatt for the German book trade . No. 45/1952 . Publishers of the German Booksellers' Association in Leipzig, Leipzig November 8, 1952, pioneers of the new life. Portraits of progressive West German writers, p. 829 .
  3. ↑ Irma Loos: narrative, interrupted several times, 1950 . In: German Academy of Arts , Poetry and Language Maintenance Section (ed.): Sense and Form . Contributions to the literature. No. 1/1951 . Rütten & Loening, Potsdam January 1951, p. 133-163 .
  4. ↑ a b c O.EH Becker: “Sympathizing” in Romania . In: Der Tagesspiegel . Berlin November 22, 1952.
  5. ↑ Dora Fehling: On the nature of young women . In: Telegraph . Berlin February 20, 1955.
  6. ^ Sylke Kirschnik: Literature under the SED dictation. In “Remembering as a task? “Informs Carsten Gansel about the cultural economy in divided Germany. In: literaturkritik.de. April 2, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ East poet. Courage to come here . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1952 ( online - misspelling: Irma Lohs).
  8. ↑ Irma Loos to Johannes R. Becher. Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts; Johannes R. Becher correspondence. In: kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Kalliope Association, January 24, 2007, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Irma Hain: Globke of all people . In: The time . No. 41 , 1963 ( zeit.de ).
  10. ↑ Lukas Redlich: Irma's red gazebo . In: The time . No. 36 , 1952 ( zeit.de ).
  11. ↑ Stefan Wolle : The big plan. Everyday life and rule in the GDR 1949–1961 (=  The ideal world of dictatorship . Volume 1 ). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-738-0 , Part Two: Signatures of Time, Chapter 1: The dictatorship of the heart. The age of totalitarian kitsch, p. 138-141 .
  12. ↑ Klaus Peter Schulz: Inge Scholl. The White Rose. Irma Loos. Romanian diary 1951. (PDF; 51.6 kB) In: library.fes.de. August 16, 2006, pp. 3–4 , accessed February 11, 2017 .
  13. ↑ William Totok: Spies of the Vatican. The bishop, Hitler and the Securitate. The Stalinist show trial of the so-called “Vatican spies”, 1951 in Bucharest. In: banaterra.eu. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
  14. ^ Paul Hühnerfeld : German writers in engagement . In: The time . No. 18 , 1951 ( zeit.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Loos, Irma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hain, Irma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg / East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century