Isa Strasser

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Isa Strasser (born March 29, 1891 in Coburg , † August 24, 1970 in Vienna ) was a kindergarten teacher, journalist, writer and nurse.

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Klothilde Isadora von Schwartzkoppen was the daughter of the Prussian captain Friedrich Ernst von Schwartzkoppen and Frieda von Schwartzkoppen (née Freifrau von Seebach ). The grandmother Clotilde von Schwartzkoppen was a poet and had edited the memoirs of her father, the Prussian general Karl von François . Isa Strasser was also related to Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen and the writer Louise von François .

She trained as a kindergarten teacher in the Pestalozzi Froebel House in Berlin , which she completed in 1908. In 1912 Isadora von Schwartzkoppen married Josef Strasser , the central figure of the German-Bohemian Social Democracy, and lived with him in Reichenberg . Even before 1914, he had criticized the nationalist tendencies in the German-Austrian social democracy . The Reichenberger Left was largely shaped by him theoretically and practically. He is considered the teacher of Karl Kreibich . In Reichenberg, Isa Strasser was organizationally and propagandistly active in the Social Democratic Workers' Party, especially in the Kinderfreunde , the youth movement and in the women's movement .

From 1913 the Strasser couple lived in Vienna. She wrote feature articles, short stories, poems and essays for social democratic newspapers. She was a member of the Karl Marx Education Association . From now on Josef Strasser only wrote for a fee per line in the features and theater section of the Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1917 son Peter was born in Jena and in 1919 daughter Liselotte in Vienna. In 1919 he was a co-founder of the Communist Party and took over the management of the party press there - with interruptions - until 1929. Isa Strasser now ran a private kindergarten based on the Montessori method in Vienna's cottage district .

Isa Strasser joined the KPÖ in 1919. She became a member of the women's central committee and employee of the Red Flag . Isa Strasser lived with her husband in Moscow from 1923 to 1928. Both were disillusioned with developments in the Soviet Union . After her return to Vienna, Isa Strasser worked again as editor of the Rote Fahne. In June 1928 she was dismissed from the editorial office because of "right deviations" and shortly thereafter expelled from the KPÖ because of "left deviations". From 1929 Isa and Josef Strasser had been in correspondence with Leon Trotsky and had founded a left-opposition group with Raissa Adler . In the course of the Stalinist waves of purges, Josef Strasser was also sidelined, if not excluded. Especially after the civil war in 1934, neither Isa nor Josef Strasser had a steady income. Seriously ill, Josef Strasser died in 1935 and was buried in a poor grave in Vienna's central cemetery.

From 1929 to 1938 Isa Strasser worked for various newspapers, including the Prager Tagblatt . She has published reports, short stories and book reviews. She wrote the historical novel Hzu Hsi, China's last empress , which, however, was not printed in the socialist Linzer Tagblatt until 1949 . Her novel A kingdom for a little love. Marquise de Pompadour and the novella Die Liebe der Marianne von Alcoforado , based on the Lettres portugaises , which were also written during these years, remained unpublished. Isa Strasser founded a translation agency in 1930. Therese Schlesinger , who in 1919 was one of the first female social democratic members of the constituent national assembly, had made a room available for her. In 1933 Isa Strasser became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .

In 1938, at the age of 47, she decided to train as a nurse for physical healing methods. A year later she took the exam and worked temporarily in Dianabad , finally she was employed as a physical sister at the regional health insurance fund. After her retirement in 1955, Isa Strasser worked in the field of care for the elderly. She became the founder and director of the Viennese club for the elderly, White Margerites, and continued to work as a writer.

Works

  • Worker and trade union , Moscow 1924
  • Women's work and rationalization , Moscow 1927
  • Hzu Hsi , China's last empress ( serial novel), Linz 1949
  • Land without sleep. With an afterword by Joseph Buttinger , Vienna 1970

Magazine articles

In: The Socialist Doctor

  • VI. International Congress of Women Doctors in Vienna. 7th year (1931), issue 10 (October), pp. 279-281 digitized

literature

  • Gabrielle Hauch: "Which path should be taken ...?" Searching for traces of Isa Strasser, b. von Schwartzkoppen (1891–1970). In: Bananas, Cola, contemporary history: Oliver Rathkolb and the long 20th century. Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-205-20091-8 , pp. 137–149.

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References

  1. ^ DÖW: In the collection LD Trotsky No. R / 536. 14 letters, correspondence with Trotsky, 1929-1935. From the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
  2. ↑ Isa Strasser: Josef Strasser - A picture of life . In: Josef Strasser: The worker and the nation . Junius, Vienna 1982, pp. 101-107.
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Isa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartzkoppen, Isadora von; Schwartzkoppen, Klothilde Isadora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian kindergarten teacher, journalist, writer, nurse
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1970
Place of death Vienna