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Lilo Linke (born October 31, 1906 in Berlin , † April 27, 1963 on a flight from Athens to London) was a German-Ecuadorian writer and reporter.
From 1925 Linke was a member of the Berlin Young Democrats and the DDP . Her work as an employee of the Young Democrats office brought her into contact with many democratic politicians in the Reich capital. In 1930 she was a founding member of the Radical Democratic Party . In 1932, when the failure of an independent left-wing liberal party was evident, she joined the SPD .
In 1931 Linke made a trip to England. While visiting the Labor Party conference in Scarborough , she met the English writer Margaret Storm Jameson . Two years later, in mid-1933, she accepted Storm Jameson's invitation and went into exile in England. The success of her key autobiographical novel Restless Flags (in the American edition under the title Restless Days ) and her English translation of Wolfgang Langhoff's book Die Moorsoldaten made her known in the political and literary exile in London. From this grew her lifelong friendship with Robert Neumann .
In May 1939 Lilo Linke left London for Panama . In 1945 she became a citizen of Ecuador . She died of heart failure on a flight from Athens to London in April 1963 and was buried in Quito on November 22nd .
Almost all of Linkes' books were published in English. Her only novel written in German Wo ist Fred? was published posthumously in Hamburg in 1963 . For exile research, Karl Holl rediscovered the girl who had almost been forgotten as an emigrant in Germany in the 1980s and published the German translation of her childhood memories in 2005.
Lilo Linke's great-great-niece is the author CR Scott (formerly André Linke).
Book publications
- Tale without End , 1934
- Restless flags. A German Girl's Story , 1934 (Ger. Days of Unrest. From Berlin to Exile: A German Girl's Life 1914–1933 . Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-934686-24-9 , review by H-Soz-u-Kult )
- Allah Dethroned: A Journey Through Modern Turkey , 1936
- Cancel all Vows , 1937
- Magic Yucatan - a Journey Remembered , 1950
- Ecuador, Country of Contrasts , 1954
- People of the Amazon , 1963
- Where is Fred? , 1963
literature
- Karl Holl: Lilo Linke (1906-1963). From the young Weimar democrat to a social reporter in Latin America. Materials for a biography . In: Exilforschung 5 (Vanishing Points of Exile and Other Topics), 1987, pp. 68–89.
- Nicole Brunnhuber: Everyday Heroes: Lilo Linke and the Politics of Survival , in: Nicole Brunnhuber: The faces of Janus: English language fiction by German speaking exiles in Great Britain, 1933-45 . New York: Lang, 2005, pp. 161-184
- Sabine Wenhold: Gustav Stolper: Mentor of a Young German Democrat . In: Jürgen Georg Backhaus (Ed.): The Beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism. The Austrian Economist and The German Economist . Springer, New York a. a. 2011, pp. 93-108 ( doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4614-0079-0_9 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Lilo Linke in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Left, Lilo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and reporter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1963 |
| Place of death | on the flight from Athens to London |