Josefa Metz

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Josefa Metz , also Josepha Metz , (born October 19, 1871 in Minden ; died February 13, 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German writer .

Life

Josefa Metz was the daughter of a Jewish lawyer who moved with the family from Minden to Bielefeld in 1879 , where Josefa attended the Auguste Viktoria School . Josefa Metz was marked by albinism . She was withdrawn from school after her father's death in 1887. Little is known about her further activities in Bielefeld or about the first few years when she moved to Berlin in 1899.

In 1908 her fairy tale play Den König pinch the Schuh was staged in Vienna , which was also performed in Bielefeld and in 1913 in Karlsruhe . In 1909 she moved to Munich . She joined the general enthusiasm for war when the First World War broke out . In the novellas published under the title Defenseless in 1916, she also reflected the environment of her children's stories for the first time. She met Arthur Schnitzler in Vienna in 1916.

In the mid-1920s she lived in Berlin again. During the global economic crisis she got into material need, in 1931 a piece by her was performed again in Bielefeld.

In 1935 the writer applied to the Reich Association of German Writers, but was not accepted due to her origins and was therefore banned from working. It was still only possible for her to work within the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden and to publish accordingly with restrictions. In 1937 Eva appeared . From a happy childhood . It was here that she dealt with her Jewish roots for the first time, which otherwise neither played a major role in family life nor for her personally. Metz was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1941 , where she died of degrading conditions in 1943.

In 2004, an exhibition in honor of Josefa Metz took place in the Museum of Westphalian Literature Haus Nottbeck in Oelde . In Bielefeld they are remembered with a stumbling block .

Works (selection)

  • The last rendez-vous: humorous scene (for 1 gentleman and 2 ladies) . Berlin, E. Bloch, 1905
  • The shoe pinches the king: a game in four pictures . Leipzig, Haupt & Hammon, 1908.
  • New poems . Berlin, W. Berngräber, New Life Publishing House, 1912.
  • In the golden garden: book of fairy tales . Pictures by H. von Volkmann, Franz Jüttner, Reinhold Hausche. Hanover, Molling, 1913.
  • The dollhouse . Pictures by Else Preussner . Hanover, Molling, 1913.
  • (Ed.): The holiday book . Hanover, Molling, 1915.
  • Defenseless: short stories . Metz. Charlottenburg, F. Lehmann, 1916.
  • Ruth Weber's experiences: novel . Berlin: Kronen-Verlag, 1917.
  • The locked garden: the collection "New Poems" . Bad Rothenfelde, Holzwarth 1919.
  • Children's poems . Berlin: Wir Verlag 1922
  • In the sky house: children's game with singing . Orig. Music by Bogumil Zepler . Berlin, Eduard Bloch 1922.
  • On the playground: funny little piece with singing . Orig. Music by Bogumil Zepler. Berlin, Eduard Bloch 1922.
  • (Ed.): From Hans Sachs to Wilhelm Busch: A lust. Verse book f. Children . People's Association of Book Friends . Berlin, Wegweiser-Verlag 1924.
  • Kasperl on the move . Illustrations by Eva Herrmann . Written by Marta Meisel-Kallmann. Munich, Verlag d. Munich Prints, 1924.
  • Eva: from a happy childhood . Berlin, Levy 1937.

literature

  • H. Macha-Krau: Josefa Metz (1871-1941), a Bielefeld writer , in: Frauenalltag in Bielefeld . Bielefeld: AJZ-Verlag 1986, pp. 227-253.
  • Michael Vogt: Josefa Metz exhibition in Haus Nottbeck , in: Literature in Westphalia: Contributions to research . Vol. 8. Paderborn, Schöningh 2006, pp. 227-331.
  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005.
  • Metz, Josefa , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 265

Web links

Wikisource: Josefa Metz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Josefa Metz in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ Katja Schmidt: Josefa Metz , in: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 78 f.
  3. ↑ Wambach, Susanne: "If I pass a child, we always both laugh". The writer Josefa Metz (1871–1943). In: Sunderbrink, Bärbel (ed.): Women in Bielefelder History. Publishing house for regional history. Bielefeld 2010, p. 61
  4. ↑ Josepha Metz ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Obituary notices issued by the doctor Eduard Laser, who also fell victim to the Holocaust, both at Holocaust.cz  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.holocaust.cz
  5. ↑ Hans and Josefa Metz ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Stolpersteine ​​Bielefeld  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stolpersteine-bielefeld.de
personal data
SURNAME Metz, Josefa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metz, Josepha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto