Laura Lafargue

Laura Marx

Laura Marx. Photograph by GP Wright December 1863

Jenny Laura Marx (born September 26, 1845 in Brussels , † November 26, 1911 in Draveil near Paris ) was a daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx and wife of the socialist Paul Lafargue . Her siblings were Jenny Longuet and Eleanor Marx .

Life

Grave of Paul and Laura Lafargue in the Père Lachaise cemetery

Laura Marx attended South Hampstead College because, in her day, women were banned from university .

On April 2, 1868, she married Paul Lafargue in London . Friedrich Engels was the best man . After the fall of the Paris Commune , the family had to go into exile in Spain and England before Laura and Paul were allowed to return to France in 1882 . All three of the couple's children died during these years. Laura was linguistically gifted and translated her father's works into French .

Laura and Paul committed suicide on the night of November 25th to 26th, 1911 after visiting the opera. They were buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .

Entry in her sister Jenny's confession book

Laura signed up in 1865 as follows:

question	answer
My favorite virtue ( My favorite vi (rtue) )	Truthfulness ( truth )
... quality in men ( ... in man )	Justice ( Justice )
... in the woman ( ... in woman )	Pity ( mercy )
Your main character trait ( Your chief characteristic )	Indecision ( irresolution )
Your conception of happiness ( Your idea of happiness )	The certainty of being loved ( The consciousness of beeing loved )
... misery ( ... misery )	Self-disgust ( Selfcontempt )
Vice that you will excuse ( The vice you excuse )	in the day dreaming ( Daydreaming )
... detest ( ... you detest )	Hypocrisy ( Cant )
Your dislike ( Your aversion )	[unanswered question]
Favorite activity ( Favorite occupation )	Reading ( Reading )
Favorite poet ( Poet )	Shakespeare ( Shakespeare )
Prose favorite author ( Prose writer )	Cervantes ( Cervantes )
Hero ( Hero )	Shelley ( Shelley )
Favorite flower ( flower )	Rose ( rose )
Favorite color ( Color )	Blue ( Azure )
Favorite names ( Names )	<Paul> Barry, Percy, Edward and Charles
Maxim ( Favorite maxim )	Know yourself ( "Know thyself" )
... and motto ( ... and motto )	Magna est veritas et prevalebit (after Tertullian , Adversus Praxean 26) German: Truth is great, and it will triumph.	Laura Marx	(1865)

Works

• Greetings from France . In: Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung , Vienna January 1, 1892.
• Laura Lafargue, Eleanor Marx - Aveling: Letters and writings from Karl Marx. In: Die Neue Zeit , XIV. Vol. 1st volume. 1895/96, p. 121. Digitized
• Friedrich Engels: Contributions à l'Histoire du Christianisme primitif . In: Devenir social . April and May 1895.
• Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels: Manifeste du parti communiste. (Traduction de Laura Lafargue). V. Giard and E. Brière, Paris 1897. Digitized by Gallica
• Karl Marx ( ie Friedrich Engels): Révolution et contre-révolution en Allemagne. Trad. by Laura Lafargue. V. Giard et E. Brière, Paris 1900. ( Bibliothèque socialiste internationale 6 ) Digitized Gallica
• Friedrich Engels: Religion, Philosophy, Socialisme. Trad. par Paul & Laura Lafargue . Jacques, Paris 1901 ( Bibliothèque d'études socialistes 8 ) Digitized Gallica
• Karl Marx: Un discours inédit de Marx . In: Le Socialisme. Paris No. 18 March 15, 1908.
• Karl Marx: Contribution à la critique de l'économie politique. Traduit sur la 2e édition allemande de Karl Kautsky par Laura Lafargue . V. Giard et E. Brière, Paris 1909. ( Bibliothèque socialiste internationale 11 ) Digitized Gallica

literature

• Franz Mehring : Paul and Laura Lafargue . In: Die Neue Zeit , Stuttgart, 30th year 1911–1912, first volume, pp. 337–343. (Digitized version)
• Lenin : Speech on behalf of the RSDLP at the funeral of Paul and Laura Lafargue, November 20 (December 3) 1911 . In: VI Lenin. Works . Volume 17. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1962, pp. 293-294.
• Catalog 5 of the antiquarian book store. Socialism and Social Democracy Anarchism-Utopia. 1, partly from the libraries of the late socialists Paul and Laura Lafargue (Paris), Jakob Stern (Stuttgart), as well as the library of the Socialistic Labor Party, central committee, New York section . Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Brand, Vienna 1918.
• Friedrich Engels Paul and Laura Lafargue. Correspondance. Texts recueillis, annotés and présentés by Émile Bottigelli. Traductions de l'anglais par Paul Meier . Tome I.Édition Sociales, Paris 1956.
• Friedrich Engels Paul and Laura Lafargue. Correspondance. Texts recueillis, annotés and présentés by Émile Bottigelli. Traductions de l'anglais par Paul Meier . Tome II., Édition Sociales, Paris 1956.
• Friedrich Engels Paul and Laura Lafargue. Correspondance. Texts recueillis, annotés and présentés by Émile Bottigelli. Traductions de l'anglais par Paul Meier . Tome III., Édition Sociales, Paris 1959.
• Olga Vorobjowa / Irma Senelnikowa: The daughters of Marx . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963 (4th amended and revised edition Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984)
• Olga Meier (ed.): The daughters of Karl Marx. Unpublished letters. from French and English by Karin Kersten and Jutta Prasse . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-462-01432-3 .
• Irina Bach / Olga Senekina: Letters from members of the Marx family to Friedrich Engels . In: Marx-Engels-Yearbook 6 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 311-366.
• Rosie Rudich: New letters from Karl Marx and Laura Lafargue . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 8. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 283-314. Digitized
• Inge Werchan: Engels examined Laura Lafargues' revised French translation of the "Communist Manifesto" from 1894 . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 24, Berlin 1988, pp. 112-116. Digitized
• Ariane Thomalla: "It would be a real shame if you had to give up writing ..." Jenny, Laura and Eleanor Marx . In: Katharina Raabe (ed.): German sisters. Fourteen portraits . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87134-300-5 , pp. 214–243.
• Family Marx private. The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition . Edited by Izumi Omura, Valerij Fomičev, Rolf Hecker and Shun-ichi Kubo. With an essay by Iring Fetscher , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004118-8 .
• Renate Merkel-Melis : "... that most untranslateable of documents ...". Engels' revision of the French translation of Laura Lafargue's “Communist Manifesto” . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2006. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 214–236. Digitized

Film adaptations

The childhood of Laura and her sisters is portrayed in the 1968 film Mohr and the Ravens of London . Laura Marx is played by Marina Propp . The suicide of Paul and Laura Lafargue is one of the storylines in Sergei Yutkevich's film Lenin in Paris (1981). Laura is played here by Antonina Maximowa ( The Soldier's Ballad ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "I enclose Laura's photograph with this paper that Mr. P. Wright sent me yesterday". Jenny Marx to Karl Marx at the end of December 1863. ( Jenny Marx. An eventful life. Compiled and introduced by Renate Schack, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1989, p. 217. ISBN 3-320-01024-7 .)
2. ↑ Birth certificate 346/1845 printed by Michael Knieriem : known and unknown personal history data on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engerls, during the Brussels period 1845–1848 . In: Protocol of the International Colloquium of the Marx-Engels-Foundation eV on November 28, 1980 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld . Wuppertal-Elberfeld (1981), p. 79.
3. ^ IISG Marx Engels Nachlass G 349 Extrakt of Marriage-Register-Book, district of Pancras: Marriage of Paul Lafargue and Jenny Laura Marx
4. ^ Charles-Etienne Lafargue (called Schnaps) (* January 1, 1869 in London; † May 1872 in Madrid) and Jenny Lafargue (* January 1, 1870 in London, † end of February 1870 in Paris) and Marc-Laurent Lafargue (* September 1870 in Bordeaux; † July 26, 1871 in Spain)
5. ^ Franz Mehring, p. 337.
6. ^ Family Marx private, Fig. 3 and pp. 238–239.

Web links

Commons : Laura Lafargue  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Laura Lafargue in the catalog of the German National Library
• Laura Marx Lafargue