Karola Bloch
Karola Bloch (born Karola Piotrkowska ; born January 22, 1905 in Łódź ; † July 31, 1994 in Tübingen ) was a Polish-German architect and author. She was the wife of Ernst Bloch .
Life
Bloch came from a Jewish-Polish factory owner family who fled to Russia during the First World War . In 1921 the family moved to Berlin . Bloch began studying architecture ; she first studied in Vienna, then in Berlin as a student of Hans Poelzig and Bruno Taut , before completing her studies in 1934 at the University of Zurich . In 1932 she joined the KPD . Despite the dangers for Jews and Communists in Germany since the "takeover" of the NSDAP , she returned to Berlin, from where she informed the Communist Party in Moscow about what was going on in Germany. In 1934 she married the philosopher Ernst Bloch. In 1937 the couple left Germany and fled to the USA via Vienna , Prague and Paris . Since Ernst Bloch did not speak the English language, Karola had to support the family as an architect. In 1949 the two returned to Germany with their son Jan-Robert , where Ernst Bloch took over a chair at the University of Leipzig . Karola Bloch designed kindergartens and crèches on behalf of the German Building Academy .
In 1957 the anti-Stalinist Bloch was expelled from the SED . When the Berlin Wall was erected on August 13, 1961 , the Bloch couple, who were on a lecture tour in the Federal Republic, did not return to Leipzig. It settled in Tübingen. Karola Bloch remained politically active and founded, among other things, the Help for Self-Help Association , a self-help association for former prisoners. It supported by Alice Schwarzer launched action women against with § 218 . At the age of 76, she traveled to Nicaragua to support the Sandinista .
Fonts (selection)
- From my life , Mössingen-Talheim 1995, ISBN 3-788-502-401 (first Pfullingen 1981).
- Man's longing to become a real person. Speeches and writings. (2 volumes) Mössingen-Talheim 1989, ISBN 3-893-760-032 .
- (Mithrsg.) Dear Comrade Bloch ...: Letters from Rudi Dutschke to Karola and Ernst Bloch , Mössingen-Talheim 1988, ISBN 3-893-760-016 .
- Thinking means going beyond. In memoriam Ernst Bloch 1885–1977 , Cologne, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-548-351-522 .
literature
- Anne Frommann: I go to those who need me: for Karola Bloch's 85th birthday. ISBN 3-893-760-13X
- Beate Kolb: Karola Bloch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 102-104.
- Irene Scherer, Welf Schröter (ed.): Karola Bloch - architect, socialist, friend. A new discovery of the work of the Bauhaus student Karola Bloch. ISBN 978-3-89376-073-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Karola Bloch in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bloch, Karola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piotrkowska, Karola (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-German architect and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1994 |
| Place of death | Tubingen , Germany |