Laureen Walnut

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Laureen Nussbaum (born Hannelore Klein on 3. August 1927 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - American literary scholar and Holocaust survivors.

Life

Hannelore Klein attended primary school in the Holzhausenviertel in Frankfurt and, for anti-Semitic reasons, was segregated into a newly established Jewish class at the beginning of the school year 1935. The parents emigrated with their three daughters to the Netherlands in 1936 , where they now attended the Dutch school. In Amsterdam they became neighbors of the Frank family, who had also fled from Frankfurt . Hannelore made friends with Margot Frank , Anne Frank's older sister . For the older girls, Anne was just the lively "little one". After the German conquest of the Netherlands in 1940, Jews were eliminated from public schools there too, and some families organized additional private tuition. In 1941, Hannelore and Anne Frank appeared on the Hanukkah festival in the Klein's apartment in a children's play set up by the teacher Anneliese Schütz .

At the beginning of the deportation of Dutch Jews in 1943, the Klein family managed to evade German Jewish persecution by concealing their Jewish origins with the help of a Dutch lawyer and the occupation soldier Hans Georg Calmeyer , while the Frank family almost entirely escaped the Holocaust fell victim.

After the end of the war, Hannelore Klein married Rudi Nussbaum (1922–2011) in 1947, whom Klein's family had given shelter for a while. Otto Frank was a best man . They emigrated to the USA in 1954 because there were better job opportunities there and had three children. Rudi Nussbaum found a job as a nuclear physicist at Portland State University .

Laureen Nussbaum studied family work, received her doctorate in Washington in 1962 and did research on 20th century German literature. She published about Georg Hermann, the successful Jewish author of the Weimar Republic . She later became a lecturer and professor of foreign languages ​​and literature at Portland State University, where she was also head of the German language and literature department.

Even before her retirement, Nussbaum and her husband appeared as a contemporary witness and she also provided information on the episode in which she was with the daughters of the Frank family. She took part in the debate about the edition of the surviving versions of the diary of Anne Frank and criticized the editing practice in the German new translation by Mirjam Pressler .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Image of Woman in the Work of Bertolt Brecht. University thesis. University of Washington, Seattle 1977.
  • In love with Holland: an important and changing relationship in Georg Hermann's more mature years. Atlanta, Amsterdam 1986.
  • "And it happened as it had to": The fate of Georg Hermann and his late works in exile in the Netherlands. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen 1987.
  • Georg Hermann: Unavailable and dumb, but still talking to people. Letters from exile 1933–1941 to his daughter Hilde. World farewell, an essay . Ed. Laureen Nussbaum. persona verlag, Mannheim 1991, ISBN 3-924652-17-1 .
  • "Death or Baptism": On the publication of Fritz Heymann's Marranen Chronicle . In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . Vol. 44, No. 1, 1992, pp. 76-81 ISSN  1570-0739
  • Assimilation problem in Georg Hermann's last exile novel “The Etruscan Mirror” . Niemeyer, 1993.
  • Grete Weil: uncomfortable, compelling to think. In: Women and Exile: Between Adjustment and Assertion. Ed. Text + Criticism, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-88377-446-4 , pp. 156–170.
  • 1926: Georg Hermann writes a pamphlet attacking the special issue of Martin Buber 's "Der Jude" devoted to the topic of anti-Semitism and Jewish national characteristics. In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096-1996. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1997, pp. 448-454
  • Anne Frank, The Writer . In: Viktoria Hertling (Ed.): With the eyes of a child: children in the Holocaust; children in exile; children under fascism . Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998 ISBN 90-420-0623-4 pp. 111-121
  • Witness Grete Weil . In: Nancy Ann Lauckner; Miriam Jokiniemi (Ed.): Shedding light on the darkness: a guide to teaching the Holocaust . New York: Berghahn Books, 2000 ISBN 1-571-81208-3 , pp. 157-173
  • Anne Frank, elevated to a symbolic figure, vilified as a writer. In: Helge-Ulrike Hyams , Klaus Klattenhoff, Klaus Ritter, Friedrich Wißmann (eds.): Jewish children's life in the mirror of Jewish children's books. An exhibition of the University Library of Oldenburg with the Marburg Childhood Museum. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-8142-0766-1 , pp. 305-314.
  • Schematic overview of the different versions of Anne's diaries. In: Inge Hansen-Schaberg (Hrsg.): Persecuted as a child: Anne Frank and the others. Weidler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89693-244-6 , pp. 279-282.

literature

  • Anna-Leena Bahrmann: Elke Stenzel: "Give the Nazis a resounding slap in the face" - contemporary witnesses remember: Handouts for use in class. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86596-491-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "vivacious", "smart", "shrimp", see: Lenita Powers: Friend of Anne Frank tells her own story. In: Reno Gazette-Journal. February 16, 2006
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  2. ↑ Laureen Nussbaum: The Princess with the Nas'. Reunion with a children's book believed to be lost. In: Helge-Ulrike Hyams , Klaus Klattenhoff, Klaus Ritter, Friedrich Wißmann (eds.): Jewish children's life in the mirror of Jewish children's books. An exhibition of the University Library of Oldenburg with the Marburg Childhood Museum. 2nd Edition. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-8142-0766-1 , pp. 253-256 ( online ; PDF; 32.3 MB).
  3. ↑ Laureen Nussbaum: Finally taken seriously as a writer , at annefrank.org
personal data
SURNAME Walnut, Laureen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Hannelore (maiden name); Walnut, Laureen Klein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American literary scholar and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main