Joy Weisenborn

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Joy Weisenborn (* as Margarete Schnabel on September 5, 1914 in Barmen ; † 2004 in Heide ) was a German teacher, actress and writer .

Life

Her father was Johannes Julius Schnabel, a small manufacturer in Wuppertal-Barmen. Joy attended school up to middle school there and was sent to boarding school in Holland in 1933, where she was preparing for the teaching profession. After the early death of her father, there was a lack of money and she set out on a journey through France and England, where she worked as an au pair and learned the language. In England she met Libertas Schulze-Boysen in the early 1930s .

From 1937 to 1938 she was a private teacher in Schwerin Castle in Mecklenburg. From 1938 she worked in a travel agency in Berlin , had artistic plans, wanted to become a sculptor, singer or actress and became a subtenant in Harro Schulze-Boysen's household . She got in contact with the resistance group Rote Kapelle . In 1940 she was a singer and actress with an ensemble on a Wehrmacht tour in France, Sicily and the German Empire. In 1941 she married Günther Weisenborn and worked in the resistance. In 1942 she and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo and were imprisoned until 1943. She was banned from performing and was obliged to work as a savings bank employee. After 1945 she worked with her husband as a writer. From 1969, after the death of Günther Weisenborn, she lived in Agarone . At the age when the steps and stairs "on the mountain" were difficult for her, she moved to an apartment in Ascona and shortly before her death back to Heide (Barmen) , near her son Sebastian.

In 2017, her son Christian Weisenborn created a cinematic monument for her with the documentary The good enemies - My father, the Red Orchestra and I.

Publications

  • 1942: Young Hearts film script
  • For once let me be sad. Letters, songs, Kassiber 1942–43 (ed. E. Raab) 1984. Günther W.-JW
  • Love in Times of High Treason: Diaries and Letters from Prison 1942–1945. A publication by the Institute for Contemporary History in the publishing house CH Beck 1942–1945 with Christian Weisenborn, Sebastian Weisenborn, Hans Woller , Joy Weisenborn's diaries have only now emerged .;
  • When we're finally free Letters, songs, receipts 1942–1945. Arche-Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978-3-7160-2378-5 , Günther and Joy Weisenborn

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joy Weisenborn, Günther Weisenborn: Love in Times of High Treason: Diaries and Letters from Prison 1942-1945 , [1]
  2. ↑ Together with Joy Weisenborn, Libertas plans to go on a Wehrmacht tour. Joy also sings chansons and soldiers' songs to the boatman's piano; she traveled with the troops to North Africa. Just out of Germany - away from the pressure, cf. Silke Kettelhake, Tell everyone, everyone about me: The beautiful short life of Libertas Schulze-Boysen 1913–1942, Munich 2014, p. [2]
  3. ↑ Deutsches Theaterlexikon, p. 3142
  4. ↑ , The German doctor Sebastian Weisenborn invites you to talk about his father Günther Weisenborn, dramaturge, writer and resistance fighter in World War II, for whom a vision came true in southern Switzerland, in Agarone, Tessiner Zeitung , July 2, 2010, [3] [4]
  5. ↑ The Good Enemies , Trailer, [5] , Our Time (newspaper) August 4, 2017, [6]
  6. ↑ Manfred Demmer, search for traces: the anti-fascist writer Günther Weisenborn, Kulturvereinigung Leverkusen eV, 2004 - 161 S, p. 122
  7. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk , May 4, 2018, [7]
  8. ↑ Joy Weisenborn (* Margarete Schnabel September 5, 1914 in Wuppertal-Barmen; † 2004 in Heide (Barmen)), [8]
personal data
SURNAME Weisenborn, Joy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnabel, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter, member of the Rote Kapelle resistance group, teacher, actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH 2004
Place of death pagan