Julie Wohryzek

Julie Wohryzek (born February 28, 1891 in Prague , † August 26, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a fiancée of Franz Kafka .

Life

Wohryzek's father Eduard Wohryzek (1864–1928) came from a merchant family. He was a butcher , ran a grocery store and later was a shame of the synagogue in the Prague suburb of Royal Vineyards . The mother Mina, nee Reach (born 1869), came from Pest .

Julie Wohryzek had two sisters, Käthe (born before 1891, deported in 1942) and Růžena (1895–1939), as well as a brother Wilhelm. Julie probably completed a commercial training, she was an office worker and later an authorized signatory .

Franz Kafka was Julie Wohryzek's second fiancé; the first, a staunch Zionist , had been killed as a soldier in the war . Letters between Kafka and Julie have not survived, only a long letter from Kafka to her sister Kathe. The marriage planned for November 1919 was strictly rejected by Kafka's parents, apparently due to rumors about Julie's sexual permissiveness. In July 1920, Kafka broke the relationship because he was in a relationship with Milena Jesenská .

Kafka wrote the following about her to Max Brod : “ An ordinary and an astonishing apparition. Not Jewish and not non-Jewish, not German, not non-German, in love with the cinema, with operettas and comedies, with powder and veil, owner of an inexhaustible and unstoppable amount of the cheekiest jargon expressions, on the whole very ignorant, more funny than sad - that's about it. "

In 1921 Julie Wohryzek married the bank authorized signatory Josef Werner, with whom she lived for a few years, first in Bucharest and then again in Prague. From March 1939 the whole of the Czech Republic was occupied by the Germans . Julie Wohryzek was deported to Auschwitz by the German occupying forces and murdered there on August 26, 1944.

literature

Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka: The Eternal Son. Verlag CH Beck Munich 2005 ISBN 3-406-53441-4 .

Web links

franzkafka.de: Julie Wohryzeks

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Florian Kraiczi: The influence of women on Kafka's work: an introduction . University of Bamberg Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-923507-32-0 , pp. 72 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
↑ Lucyna Darowska: Resistance and biography: The resistance practice of the Prague journalist Milena Jesenská against National Socialism . transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-1783-6 , pp. 249 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
↑ Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka: the eternal son: a biography . CH Beck, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57535-8 , pp. 526 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Wohryzek, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Fiancee Franz Kafka
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1944
Place of death	Auschwitz

[:0-1] Florian Kraiczi: The influence of women on Kafka's work: an introduction . University of Bamberg Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-923507-32-0 , pp. 72 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).

[2] Lucyna Darowska: Resistance and biography: The resistance practice of the Prague journalist Milena Jesenská against National Socialism . transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-1783-6 , pp. 249 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).

[3] Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka: the eternal son: a biography . CH Beck, 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57535-8 , pp. 526 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).