Johanna Lenz

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Johanna Lenz born Trautwein, usually Hanne Lenz , also called Hanne Trautwein (born July 24, 1915 in Munich ; † January 26, 2010 there ) was a German art historian and editor. She became known as the wife, conversation partner and fictional character of the writer Hermann Lenz .

Life

Johanna Trautwein was a daughter of the microbiologist Kurt Trautwein and the painter Marie Cohen . In April 1929 she entered the 4th grade of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and passed her Abitur here in 1935, with Ernst Bodensteiner , Georg Brauchle , Eberhard Hanfstaengl , Albert Lempp , Paul Paede and Franz Josef Strauss , among others , and then studied art history in Munich and received her doctorate, although “ half-Jewish ”, in 1941 with a thesis on Johann Jakob Herkomer . However, she was unable to complete a museum practice during the Third Reich . Her friend Stina Beutinger found her a job at the Weinmüller auction house , which she was able to keep even when Weinmüller had to drastically reduce his staff.

Her mother died on February 25, 1942, shortly before she would have been deported. About a month earlier, she had heard about the deportation of her sister Ada Marianne Rée and her daughter Olga and had a heart attack from which she could not recover. Johanna Trautwein herself was used for forced labor in 1944; she had to help cleaning the Munich trams in the last phase of the Second World War , but then came to the hospital because of heart problems and was given eight weeks' leave of forced labor in early 1945.

The house of the Trautwein family at Mannheimer Strasse 5 was damaged by bombs during the Second World War, probably on July 12, 1944, but was saved from burning down by neighbor Karl Hermann Usener .

She met Hermann Lenz during her studies in 1937. After he returned from American captivity , the couple married in 1946 and moved into Lenz's parents' house on Birkenwaldstrasse in Stuttgart, where they lived until the house was sold following inheritance disputes in the 1970s. Hermann Lenz did not continue his studies after the war, but initially worked as a freelance writer and later in unprofitable positions as secretary of a cultural association and a writers' association. Johanna Lenz trained in psychology and worked for many years as a lecturer in the field of psychology at Klett-Cotta Verlag in Stuttgart . After the publication of some stories, she did not continue her own attempts at writing. The night carousel , published for the first time in 1946, was reissued on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

In 2003 Johanna Lenz tried to get a new edition of the writings of her grandfather Gustav Gabriel Cohen .

She appears in the character of Treutlein Hanni in Lenz's autobiographical Eugen Rapp novel cycle, but she said about the relationship between this character and herself: "I can look at her like any other character in a novel, because things that particularly concerned me they cannot be found at Treutlein Hanni. She is different from me in many ways. "

After Hermann Lenz's death in 1998, Johanna Lenz was accepted into the Jewish community. She was buried in the New Israelite Cemetery in Schwabing.

Works

  • Paul Celan , Hanne and Hermann Lenz: Correspondence. With three letters from Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Edited by Barbara Wiedemann (among others). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 9783518412725
  • "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances": Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The correspondence 1937-1946 . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-17772-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report on the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich for the school year 1934/35
  2. ↑ "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 17
  3. ↑ "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 530
  4. ↑ "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 989
  5. ↑ "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 1040
  6. ↑ a b Rainer Moritz : Just don't let the need go. An astonishing exception among author widows: Hanne Lenz on her 90th birthday , in: Die Welt , July 23, 2005
  7. ↑ The civil wedding took place on June 18, 1946, the church on July 13 in the Catholic parish church of St. Georg, cf. "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 1033
  8. ↑ "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances." Hanne Trautwein - Hermann Lenz. The Correspondence 1937-1946 , ed. by Michael Schwidtal, Insel Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3458177722 , p. 1039
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Hanne; Trautwein, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2010
Place of death Munich