Julie Elias

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Max Liebermann: Julie Elias (1914)
Lovis Corinth : Carl Ludwig Elias (1899)
Von der Eerlichē zimlichen / also permitted Wolust des leibs 1542

Julie Elias (born June 6, 1866 in Berlin as Julie Levi ; died spring 1945 in Lillehammer in occupied Norway) was a German fashion journalist and author of cookbooks that also dealt with Jewish cuisine . She was cosmopolitan, highly educated and during her lifetime she was known beyond the borders of Germany as a culinary salonnière and a successful writer. In 1938, being persecuted as a Jew, she had to flee Germany. After the annihilation of European Jewry in the Holocaust , there were hardly any traces of her left in public memory.

Life

Julie Levi and the art historian Julius Elias married in 1888, they had the son Ludwig Elias (1891–1942). In 1890 they moved into the house they had inherited at Matthäikirchstrasse 4 in Berlin, had a large circle of friends, were sociable and were particularly friends with the Liebermanns , with whom they shared culinary delights, especially their love of French cuisine. As a hostess, Julie Elias was hailed as a “culinary artist”.

Julie Elias was a fashion journalist and author of practical life books and cookbooks. Between 1915 and 1928 she published 28 articles in the Berliner Tageblatt . She also wrote for the Berlin fashion journal Styl , the Jewish magazine founded in 1929 and the magazine Die Dame . In her articles she combined fashion and cooking with Jewish culture, for example published recipes for the Sabbath in Die Dame or introduced a new fashionable style to conservative Jewish readers in the Jewish magazine . She used literary quotations in her texts. In an article from 1921, for example, with a quote from Guy de Maupassant , she conveyed the connection between the perception of art and the perception of taste. In another from 1924, she linked Ludwig Börne's letters from Paris with the enthusiasm of German women for Parisian fashion at the time.

In 1925 she published Das Neue Kochbuch , which also dealt with Jewish cuisine. It contained recipes for dishes that are traditionally prepared, especially for the Passover festival, such as matzo . She also described some recipes from prominent Jewish women in Germany at the time, including Martha Liebermann and the fashion journalist Elsa Herzog . Julie Elias' books on cooking and kitchen practice are not just collections of recipes that are reduced to practical action. Rather, it also incorporated knowledge of cultural history without devaluing the craftsmanship. In her books she thought ingeniously about culinary art and quoted from the works of important French and German restaurateurs such as Brillat-Savarin and Eugen von Vaerst . She wrote about the art of cooking: “For the rest of the time, cooking is like any other artistic profession: only through practice can one gain approval, only through manual activity mastery. [...] Intelligence alone does not do it - a refined sensuality is necessary. ”The introduction to the New Cookbook was preceded by the motto culinary art -“ the permitted lust of life ” and added the explanation in the second edition in 1927 ( culinary art ) old monk's saying added.

After the National Socialists ' seizure of power in 1933, Elias made another trip to Italy in 1934 and one to Switzerland in 1935. Together with her son Ludwig, who had practiced as a lawyer in Berlin before 1933, she fled to Norway in 1938 with the support of the Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht . While she was able to evade persecution by the German occupiers with the help of the Norwegian resistance, Ludwig Elias was deported from Oslo to the Auschwitz extermination camp on November 26, 1942, where she was a victim of the Holocaust .

The Berlin columnist Heinz Knobloch has put together a collection of materials on Julie Elias, but he never got to write the planned biography.

Works (selection)

  • The young woman. A book of lifestyle . Illustrations by Ludwig Kainer . R. Mosse, Berlin 1921
  • Breviary of fine cuisine. Illustrated after the masters . Eysler, Berlin 1922
  • Paperback for women . Drawings and watercolors by Emil Orlik . Ullstein AG, Berlin 1924
  • The new cookbook. A guide to fine dining . Dedicated to Max Liebermann. Ullstein, Berlin 1925
    • Culinary arts. A guide to fine dining . Ullstein, Berlin [1927]
  • New recipes . A. Wertheim, Berlin [around 1925]
  • From cooking and seasoning . HW Appel Feinkost AG, Hanover 1929
  • Sunday and festival dishes . Sunlicht Ges., Mannheim 1931
  • The broom of the stomach. Cheese and cheese dishes . Drawings Heinz Wallenberg. Preuss, Berlin 1931
  • ... guests in the evening . Sunlicht Ges., Mannheim 1931
  • Paul Reboux : The New Way of Life. Cleaning up with outdated customs and outdated rules of propriety . Translation of Julie Elias. Piper, Munich 1932

literature

  • Elias, Julie. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 282-285.
  • Ernst Braun: "... my wife toasted in well-chosen words and congratulated herself on her husband ..." , in: Claudia Christophersen u. a. (Ed.): Romanticism and Exile: Festschrift for Konrad Feilchenfeldt . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004 ISBN 3-8260-2673-X , pp. 364–369
  • Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann: "Masterpieces for our palate". Max Liebermann's conviviality and fine cuisine. With recipes by Julie Elias, texts and illustrations from the Liebermann circle and photographs by Angelika Fischer . Vacat Verlag, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-930752-46-1 ( review )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann: "Masterpieces for our palate". Max Liebermann's conviviality and fine cuisine. With recipes by Julie Elias, texts and illustrations from the Liebermann circle and photographs by Angelika Fischer. Vacat Verlag, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-930752-46-1 , p. 109
  2. ^ Kerry Wallach: Weimarer Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in the 1920s Germany. In: Leonard Greenspoon (Ed.): Fashioning Jews. Clothing, Culture, and Commerce , Purdue University Press 2013, ISBN 978-1557536570 , pp. 116-117
  3. ^ A b Eva Maria Magel: Artistic Education. In: Michael Maaser, Gerrit Walter (Eds.): Bildung , Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02098-7 , p. 22
  4. ↑ Mila Ganeva: Women in Weimar Fashion. Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 , Camden House, Rochester-New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-571-13205-5 , p. 88
  5. ↑ Tracey Beck: The New Cookbook. 1925 , meeting, at the Leo Baeck Institute
  6. ↑ Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann: '' "Masterpieces for our palate". Max Liebermann's conviviality and fine cuisine. With recipes by Julie Elias, texts and illustrations from the Liebermann circle and photographs by Angelika Fischer ''. Vacat Verlag, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 978-3-930752-46-1 , p. 118
  7. ↑ Das Neue Kochbuch , Ullstein 1925, p. IX books.google
  8. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 6, Saur, Munich 1998, p. 285. The "old monk's saying" should go back to the title of the German edition of the cookbook De honesta voluptate et valetudine by Bartolomeo Platina , translated into German by Stephanus Vigilius Pacimontanus, Augsburg 1542 with Heinrich Steiner (printer) . There, however, there is talk of the “permitted volust of the body”, commons.wikimedia.org
personal data
SURNAME Elias, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levi, Julie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion journalist and cookbook author
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Lillehammer