Ite Liebenthal
Ite Liebenthal (actually Ida Liebenthal ; born on 15. January 1886 in Berlin , died on the thirtieth November 1941 in the forest of Rumbula in Riga murdered) was a German poet .
Life
As a daughter from a middle-class Jewish family, Liebenthal attended the Sophie-Charlotten-Lyceum . She graduated from high school in 1909 as an external student at the Friedrichswerder Oberrealschule , then she studied philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 1916 and attended lectures by Émile Haguenin , Adolf Lasson , Heinrich Rickert and others Karl Jaspers .
As early as 1906, at the age of 20, she published her first volume of poetry ( From the Twilight ). Further publications followed in the magazine Die Argonauten . Although Rainer Maria Rilke , with whom she had been in contact since 1916, advocated it, the Insel Verlag did not publish it . In 1921 a volume of poems was published by Erich Lichtenstein Verlag Jena. One of the last poems in this volume is the following:
You will love the memory more than me,
when the living image escapes behind the veil,
when only the floating breath of blowing words remains,
when the ultimate sense of sunken glances reaches you.
Then I will completely enclose your aging life,
loneliest among men, that your soul will never spoil.
All my inner sources, which still flow hidden from you today,
flow calmly into your heart, and all suffering dies.
Further publications in the Weimarer Blätter and the Neue Frauen-Zeit followed. She earned her living as a secretary in various companies and law firms.
When her sister Erna and her brother Werner emigrated after the Nazis came to power, Liebenthal stayed in Berlin. Most recently she lived as a subtenant at Hektorstraße 3 in Berlin-Halensee . On November 27, 1941, she and 1,052 other German Jews were deported from the Grunewald train station to Riga. Immediately after her arrival she was murdered there with all the other inmates of the mass transport in the Rumbula forest.
Since October 29, 2013, a stumbling block has been reminding of the murdered poet at her last place of residence at 3 Hektorstrasse .
Works
- From the twilight. Poems. H. Walther, Berlin 1906.
- Poems. E. Lichtenstein, Jena 1921.
- Postponed poems. Edited by Karl Rauch. Jena 1947.
- Ite Liebenthal . Degener, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-95497-010-0 .
- Ite Liebenthal . Versensporn - Booklet for lyrical charms No. 10. Edited by Bo Osdrowski & Tom Riebe. Edition poetry tastes good, Jena 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ite Liebenthal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ite Liebenthal , website of the Berlin Stolperstein project
- Love poems by Ite Liebenthal
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liebenthal, Ite |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liebenthal, Ida (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1941 |
| Place of death | Rumbula Forest near Riga |