Joe Lederer

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Joe Lederer (born September 12, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died January 30, 1987 in Munich ) was an Austrian journalist and writer.

Life

Josefine Lederer attended Eugenie Schwarzwald's private school in Vienna , but switched to a public business school after her father's death. In addition, she took private acting lessons from the castle actor Karl Forest . After she graduated from high school, she worked in the office of the Pollak bank. When Lederer lost his job due to the bankruptcy of their employer, they hired Hugo Bettauer and Rudolf Olden to act as secretaries for their magazine, Bettauers Wochenschrift - Problems of Life .

This magazine was not without controversy and was repeatedly attacked, especially from conservative circles. The whole thing escalated when the dental technician Otto Rothstock broke into the editorial office on March 26, 1925 and shot Bettauer. Rudolf Olden got Lederer, who wanted to quit after this event, a job as private secretary for his brother, the writer Balder Olden .

From 1926, Lederer lived as a private secretary to Balder Oldens in Berlin , where she made her debut two years later with her novel Das Mädchen George . Differences about Lederer's year of birth date from this time. In the advertisement for her first novel, the key message was the author's youthfulness. In the daily press, Lederer repeatedly traded as the German Colette . In addition to her novel and short stories, which have now appeared in quick succession, she also wrote for the film.

Immediately after the takeover of the Nazis tried to secure their economic livelihood Lederer. On September 8, 1933, she became a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer , despite her Jewish belief . In the following year a small novel was allowed to appear, in July 1935 all her literary works were banned.

Lederer emigrated to Shanghai in 1934 and worked there as a nanny. But after contracting tuberculosis , she returned to Vienna in 1935. She lived alternately in Vienna and in Positano ( Italy ) to cure her illness. Although the Wiener Weltbild-Verlag had taken over the rights to her books in 1936 , she was not doing well economically.

However, Lederer also misjudged her situation because in 1939 she refused the help of her colleague Annemarie Selinko . Through Selinko's mediation, Lederer had got in touch with the exile publisher Allert de Lange in Amsterdam ; but Lederer “didn't want to expose himself”. After many unsuccessful attempts, Lederer received a domestic permit in 1939 , which allowed her to travel to Great Britain to work there. Until 1943 she worked as a housemaid in the house of the industrialist Gordon Turner . In his house she met u. a. her colleagues Hilde Spiel , Stéphane Roussel and Peter de Mendelssohn again.

In 1944 she found a job as a secretary and translator at the Foreign Office in London and worked there until 1952. In 1946 she was granted British citizenship. After the end of the war, she stayed in London for a few years and returned to Germany in 1956.

She settled in Munich as a freelance writer and was signed by the publisher Kurt Desch . In 1973, Lederer was one of the victims of the so-called Desch scandal, in which Desch had robbed many of his authors - including Lederer - from the royalties due to them in the 1970s. So her financial problems remained almost insoluble. That is why she worked in parts as an editor for various newspapers and also wrote some screenplays for television. She also translated some (mostly unpublished) from English and began to write her autobiography (also unpublished). She was a member of the PEN center.

At the age of 82, Joe Lederer died almost forgotten on January 30, 1987 in a hospital in Munich and was buried in an urn grave in the Munich forest cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • The girl George. Roman - Wegweiser Verlag, Berlin 1928 (reprinted by Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86815-035-3 ).
  • Music of the night. Roman - Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Three days of love. Roman - Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1931 (reprint Desch Verlag, Munich 1956, also contains Bring mich heim )
  • Take me home Roman - Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1932, (reprinted by Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1960)
  • Under the apple trees. Roman - Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1934 (reprinted by Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-548-40141-4 )
  • Leaf in the wind. Roman - Zeitbild Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1936 (Reprint Heyne Verlag, Munich 1965)
  • Flowers for Cornelia. Roman - Zeitbild Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1936 (reprint Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-10416-1 )
  • A simple heart. Roman - Zeitbild Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1937 (serial reprint licensed by Desch Verlag, 1956; reprint Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1963)
  • Homesick for yesterday. Story - Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1951 (with illustrations by Hildegard Roedelius)
  • Restlessness of heart. Roman - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1956 (reprinted by Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-548-23023-7 )
  • Last spring. Roman - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1957 (Reprinted by Heyne Verlag, Munich 1966)
  • Fall into the dark. Roman - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1957 (Reprint Heyne Verlag, Munich 1969)
  • Kidnapped in Shanghai. Youth book - Ensslin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1958 (with illustrations by Gerhard Pallasch, former title: Fafan in China )
  • The foolish virgin. Heiterer Roman - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1960 (reprinted by Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-548-23071-7 )
  • From the friendliness of the people. Short stories - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1965 (reprinted by Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-548-22625-6 )
  • I love you. Five stories from my life - Desch Verlag, Vienna 1975 (reprinted by Langen-Müller, Munich 2000)
  • Motive love. Seven murder cases that made criminal history - Moewig Verlag, Rastatt 1981

literature

  • H. Miethe: Joe Lederer, "The Girl George" . In: The world stage . Vol. 28 (1928)
  • N. Herbermann: Joe Lederer, “Three Days of Love” . In: The Grail. Volume 25 (1930)
  • Heinz Kindermann : Guide through the modern age . Austrian Publishing House, Innsbruck 1954.
  • Stéphane Roussel: The untouchable life of Joe Lederer. In: Welt am Sonntag . February 8, 1987
  • Petra Budke: Writers in Berlin 1871-1945. A lexicon on life and work . Orlanda-Frauenverlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-929823-22-5 .
  • Gabriele Heidegger: Joe Lederer. A monograph. Thesis. Vienna 1998.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 700

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Double Desch . In: The time . No. 11/1981 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Joe Lederer: A Simple Heart . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 8, 1956, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Lederer, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lederer, Josefine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1987
Place of death Munich