Johanna Wollf-Friedberg

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Johanna Wollf-Friedberg (also: Wolff-Friedberg ), née Friedberg (born July 10, 1878 in Karlsruhe ; place and date of death unknown), was a German poet and song composer.

Life

Johanna Friedberg grew up as the eldest daughter of the lawyer Max Friedberg (1847–1907), son of a rabbi , and Bertha geb. Marx (around 1850-1932) in a respected German-Jewish family in Karlsruhe. She had five siblings: Frieda, Elisabeth, Joachim, Hans and Leopold. The father was temporarily a city ​​councilor , member of the bar association, the Israelite state synod, the board of trustees of the Nordrach lung sanatorium and the like. v. a. and was close to Orthodoxy .

In 1902 Johanna married the private scholar, writer, dramaturge and lawyer Karl Wollf , who was a partner in the Karlsruhe office of her father-in-law.

In 1910, Johanna's marriage to Karl Wollf was divorced in Berlin. Her further fate is still unclear.

Only her brother Leopold was able to emigrate to New Zealand via France and Great Britain in the later 1930s . Her siblings Frida, married Driesen, Elisabeth and Hans Friedberg fell victim to the Holocaust. In 1964 Leopold Friedberg wrote in a letter to Günther Klotz , "All my siblings perished in the extermination camps".

Johanna Wollf-Friedberg has published poems - especially in magazines. Arnold Mendelssohn set to music a song cycle she had written, which she had titled "Songs of a Woman".

Works

  • From my world. Poems . Strasbourg: Singer, 1902. 72 pp.
  • Two songs for one voice with piano accompaniment: Op. 11 / No. 1, Now all heaven knows . Berlin: Challier, undated (Music: Georg Bradsky)
  • Sun Prince . Drama, no year, cf. General State Archives Karlsruhe .
  • Preludes. Poems . Freiburg: J. Bielefeld, 1907. 77 pp.
  • Songs of a lover . A circle of songs for alto voice and chamber orchestra. undated, undated, incorrectly dated: 1880. Set by Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn. Mskr., Cf. RISM-OPAC

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christa Koch: Elisabeth Friedberg (article in the memorial book for the Karlsruhe Jews), accessed on April 24, 2020.
  2. ↑ See obituary in: Der Israelit , No. 6, February 21, 1907, p. 9.
  3. ↑ On Max Friedberg see also the article Max Friedberg in the Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe, accessed on April 24, 2020.
  4. ^ Friedberg, Leopold , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 102
personal data
SURNAME Wollf-Friedberg, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff-Friedberg, Johanna; Friedberg, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH 20th century