Josa Ruffner

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Josa Ruffner (born Josephine Lederer, married Josa Morgan, January 11, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 3, 1986 in London ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Josephine Lederer was the daughter of the doctor Moritz Lederer (1859-1908) and Antonia Michalup, she had a brother. The parents' marriage was fragile and their father committed suicide in 1908. Lederer grew up with his mother and stepfather, the lawyer Emil Meisel. She took acting lessons from Ernst Arndt at the Burgtheater .

Lederer married the actor Paul Morgan in 1917 . In 1918, with the protection of her father-in-law, she published a few articles in the Viennese magazine Forum. Monthly for the legal profession . Paul Morgan went to Berlin in 1919, where he appeared in theater and cabaret and made a film career. She may have appeared in Morgan's cabarets in Berlin. In 1922 she had a leading role at the Deutsches Theater in Munich . 1930/31 they stayed in Hollywood, where he took part in films. After the seizure of power in 1933, they returned to Austria from Berlin. In 1934 she reported on her experiences in the USA in the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and wrote articles for the Sunday edition of the Wiener Journal . After Austria's annexation in 1938, she managed to escape to the Netherlands and France, while Paul Morgan was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp . Josa Morgan obtained a work permit for her husband for the Netherlands, but he was not released, but was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he died in 1939 of prison conditions. After the outbreak of war in 1939, she was interned in France as an enemy foreigner in Camp de Gurs and remained there after the German occupation of northern France in 1940. In 1941 she managed to escape to the USA. In 1944 she married the journalist Joseph Ruffner and received US citizenship. The marriage later ended in divorce. In 1948 she wrote a few articles and obituaries for the New York German-language emigrant newspaper Aufbau .

Ruffner returned to Europe in 1956 and lived in Berlin, Munich and London.

literature

  • Morgan-Ruffner, Josa, née Josephine Lederer , in: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women . Vienna: Böhlau, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2289f. at Austria Forum
  • Ruffner, Josa , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 809
  • Morgan, Paul , in: 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. 831

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personal data
SURNAME Ruffner, Josa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgan-Ruffner, Josa; Lederer, Josephine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1986
Place of death London