Lily Abegg

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Lily Abegg (* December 7, 1901 as Elisabeth Hermine Abegg in Hamburg , † July 13, 1974 in Samedan ) was a Swiss journalist and author.

Life

Lily Abegg was born in Hamburg as the daughter of a Zurich merchant, but first grew up in Japan . She attended the German School in Yokohama and, after the family moved to Switzerland, the Free Gymnasium in Zurich . After that, she holds a degree in economics and political science at the University of Geneva and the University of Hamburg , which it 1926 with the graduation to the Dr. rer. pole. completed.

Lily Abegg then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Newspaper Studies at Heidelberg University . From 1930 to 1933 she published her own newspaper correspondence in Berlin.

From 1936 she was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung and worked in Japan and China, among others. In 1946 she worked in the editorial department of Weltwoche . She wrote for the FAZ and several Swiss newspapers. She also wrote several non-fiction books in which she processed her experiences, such as China's renewal (1940) and East Asia thinks differently. Attempt to analyze the west-east contrast (1949).

After the end of the war and the defeat of Japan, Abegg was imprisoned as a war criminal in Sugamo Prison after she was later found to be mistaken for the Tokyo Rose .

Fonts

  • Yamato. The belief in mission of the Japanese people. 1936.
  • China's renewal. The room as a weapon. 1940.
  • East Asia thinks differently. Attempt to analyze the west-east contrast. 1949 (new edition 1970).
  • New masters in the Middle East. Arab politics today. 1954.
  • In the new China. 1957.
  • From the Middle Kingdom to Mao Tse-tung. 1966.
  • China and Vietnam, challenge our conscience. 1967.
  • Japan's dream of a model country. The new Nipponism. 1973.

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personal data
SURNAME Abegg, Lily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abegg, Elisabeth Hermine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1974
Place of death Samedan