Kadidja Wedekind

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Epiphany Kadega "Kadidja" Mathilde Franziska Wedekind (born August 6, 1911 in Munich , † October 14, 1994 in Munich) was a German writer, journalist, illustrator and actress . She was the daughter of the playwright Frank Wedekind and the actress Tilly Newes . Her older sister was the actress Pamela Wedekind .

Life

As a child, Kadidja Wedekind read a lot and began writing poetry and prose and illustrating her texts at the age of eleven. After graduating from high school, she studied painting and graphics at the Dresden Art Academy and the Berlin Art Academy from 1928 to 1933 . She also wrote reviews, reports and short stories for newspapers and magazines. In 1931 Kadidja Wedekind worked as an actor at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and in 1932/33 as a cabaret artist for Werner Finck's catacomb .

In 1933 the children's novel Kalumina - Novel of a Summer , which she had already written at the age of 17, was published. In the lightly handwritten novel, Kadidja Wedekind tells of the founding of the Kalumina Empire, which existed for a short time on Lake Starnberg at the end of the 1920s , and of the happy Empress Carola I, a regent who passed on to Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte remind.

In 1937 she emigrated to the United States, while her mother Tilly and sister Pamela came to terms with the Nazi regime, which Kadidja did not forgive them. She also worked as an actress in the USA. She appeared in the fear and misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht and in 1942 took over the direction of the children's theater at Northshore Holiday House in Huntington , Long Island (New York). Engagements followed a. at the Palmer Theater in New London, Connecticut (1944), at Martha's Vineyards Playhouse (1946) and on Voice of America (1944-1948). In 1949 she returned to Germany.

Her comedy A Small State Affair (later renamed Amarand ) premiered in Saarbrücken in 1952 . In 1954 she published her novel König Ludwig und seine Hexenmeister , which served as a template for the film Ludwig II - Splendor and Misery of a King with OW Fischer in the title role.

Kadidja Wedekind was with the Berlin lawyer Dr. Ulrich Biel , who also emigrated to the USA during the Nazi era and, since the divorce from Kadidja Wedekind in 1952, had lived with Countess Marion Yorck von Wartenburg , widow of the resistance fighter Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg . The marriage remained childless.

In October 1994, Kadidja Wedekind died in her Schwabing apartment. She was buried next to her parents on October 28, 1994 in the Munich forest cemetery.

Works

  • Kadidja Wedekind: King Ludwig and his sorcerer. Edited by Dirk Heißerer. P. Kirchheim, Munich 1995. ISBN 3-87410-070-7
  • Kadidja Wedekind: Kalumina: The novel of a summer. Edited by Dirk Heißerer. P. Kirchheim, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-87410-071-5

literature

  • Anatol Regnier: You on your highest roof. Tilly Wedekind and her daughters. A family biography. Knaus, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-8135-0223-6
  • Anatol Regnier: Frank Wedekind. A tragedy for men. Knaus, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3813502558
  • 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. 1212

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Tombstone; there is no certainty of the day of death; Source: A. Regnier, 2003, p. 409/410.
  2. ^ Wedekind from Horst Kr. Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony. In: Lower Saxony gender book. Volume 187 (1982), pp. 481-634, here p. 533
personal data
SURNAME Wedekind, Kadidja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedekind, Epiphany Kadega Mathilde Franziska (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist, illustrator and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1994
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany