Lisa Tetzner

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Lisa Tetzner (born November 10, 1894 in Zittau ; † July 2, 1963 in Carona ) was a German-Swiss children's book author and storyteller who, together with her husband Kurt Kläber , had to leave Germany in 1933 due to persecution by the National Socialists . She was expatriated in 1938 and acquired Swiss citizenship in 1948 . Until her death she lived in Carona in the canton of Ticino .

Life

Tetzner's birthplace on Rathausplatz in Zittau.
Plaque on the house where she was born

Lisa Tetzner was born in Zittau in 1894 as the daughter of a doctor. As a result of whooping cough at the age of eleven, she suffered secondary knee inflammation, which stiffened her left knee. She was only able to walk freely again after several years of immobility.

At the age of 19, against her father's will and despite her unstable state of health, she attended the social women's school in Berlin to become a police assistant. She took courses in speech and voice training at Max Reinhardt's drama school and enrolled at the University of Berlin with Emil Milan, who was lecturer there for the art of speaking. Emil Milan became her mentor and also supported her inclination towards folk tales. Lisa Tetzner joined the youth movement . The decisive impetus for the rest of her life came in 1917/18 when she met the publisher Eugen Diederichs . Lisa Tetzner began to travel through the villages of central and southern Germany (Thuringia, Swabia and the Rhineland) as a storyteller. Eugen Diederichs also brought out her first book Vom Märchenerzenken im Volke .

In 1919 Lisa Tetzner met the KPD politician and workers' writer Kurt Kläber on one of her hikes in Thuringia . In 1921 she became bedridden again due to a right hip joint infection. The inflammation healed, but led to permanent stiffening. In 1924 she married Kurt Kläber, who later under the pseudonym Kurt Held , among others, The Red Zora and her gang wrote. In 1927 Lisa Tetzner was appointed director of the children's hour at the Berliner Rundfunk and from 1932 was also responsible for the children's programs of other radio stations. In addition, she published extensive collections of fairy tales. From 1928 she began to write her own children's books.

In 1933 she emigrated with her husband, who came into conflict with the National Socialists because of his political views, to Carona (Switzerland) in the neighborhood of her friend Hermann Hesse , where Bert Brecht stayed with them for a while before he went to Denmark. Tetzner's books were subsequently banned in Germany. In 1935 it lost its German publisher after an attack in the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps . From 1937 she worked as a lecturer for speech training at the cantonal teachers' seminar in Basel , where she worked until 1955. In 1938 her German citizenship was revoked; In 1948 she received Swiss citizenship .

In the 1950s, Lisa Tetzner was a sponsor of fantastic children's literature (especially Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking , 1945), which was rather hesitantly accepted in Germany. In 1957 she translated CS Lewis' first book on Narnia .

In 2016, a street in St. Gallen, Switzerland was named after her.

Works

Children's and picture books, fairy tales, children's plays

  • Look out, it's called my house (1925)
  • The fairy tale of the big, fat pancake (1925)
  • The Walk to Life (1926)
  • The Seven Ravens (1928)
  • Hans Urian or The Story of a World Tour (1929)
  • Big and Little Klaus (1929)
  • From the fairytale tree of the world (1929)
  • Football (1932)
  • Siebenschön (1933)
  • What happened at the lake (1935) [filmed in 1956 under the title Tender Secret ]
  • The Journey to Ostend (1936)
  • The Wunderkessel (1936)
  • Belopazu (1938)
  • The Black Brothers (together with Kurt Kläber , 2 volumes, Sauerländer, Aarau 1940/41)
  • Sugus storybook (1950)
  • Su - The Story of the Odd Twelve Nights (1950)
  • Little Su from Africa (1952)
  • The Black Nut (1952)
  • Su and Agaleia (1953)
  • The potty with the hulle-bull-tummy (1953)
  • If I were beautiful (1956)
  • The Girl in the Glass Carriage (1957)

Experiences and adventures of the children from No. 67

Lisa Tetzner's main work is the series Experiences and Adventures of Children from No. 67 , which appeared from 1933 to 1949. Odyssey of a Youth , which is sometimes considered the most important German-language children's book of exile . In it, the time of National Socialism in Germany is portrayed from a child's perspective .

  • Volume 1: Erwin and Paul (1933)
  • Volume 2: The Girl from the Front Building (1948)
  • Volume 3: Erwin comes to Sweden (1941)
  • Volume 4: The Ship Without a Port (1943)
  • Volume 5: The Children on the Island (1944)
  • Volume 6: Mirjam in America (1945)
  • Volume 7: Was Paul Guilty? (1945)
  • Volume 8: When I came back (1946)
  • Volume 9: The New Bund (1949)

Reports, reports, theoretical writings

  • Telling fairy tales among the people (1919)
  • From minstrel trips and hiking days - a bundle of reports (= telling fairy tales in the people, second part) (1923)
  • In the Land of Industry, between Rhine and Ruhr (1923)
  • Through Germany in a Blue Car (1926)
  • That was Kurt Held. 40 years of living with him (1961)
  • The fairy tale and Lisa Tetzner. A picture of life (1966)

Editorial activity

  • German riddle book (1924)
  • The most beautiful fairy tales in the world for 365 and one day , 2 volumes, Jena 1926/27; (4 volumes), reprint under the title Märchenjahr , Munich 1956
  • Danish fairy tales (1948)
  • English fairy tales (1948)
  • French fairy tales (1948)
  • Sicilian fairy tales (1950)
  • Russian fairy tales (1950)
  • Negro Tales (1950)
  • Indian tales (1950)
  • Fairy Tales of the Peoples (1950)
  • Japanese fairy tales (1950)
  • Turkish fairy tales (1950)
  • Indian fairy tales (1950)
  • Colorful pearls. Children's stories from around the world (1956)
  • The fairy tale year , 2 volumes (1956)
  • European fairy tales (1958)

literature

  • Gisela Bolius: Lisa Tetzner - life and work . Dipa, Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 3-7638-0380-7 .
  • Manfred Brauneck (Hrsg.): Author Lexicon of German-Language Literature of the 20th Century. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-16302-0 .
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 1991.
  • Susanne Koppe: Kurt Kläber - Kurt Held: Bibliography of Contradictions? For the 100th birthday of the author of the “Rote Zora”. Sauerländer, Frankfurt 1997. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in Zurich, Jena and Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-7941-4330-2 .
  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Classics of children's and youth literature. An international lexicon. JB Metzlar, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999.
  • Franziska Meister: Lisa Tetzner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 15, 2012 , accessed January 15, 2020 .
  • Kristina Schulz: Switzerland and the literary refugees (1933–1945). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005640-1 (also: University of Bern, Habil-Schr., 2011), pp. 125–141.

Exhibitions

  • From our life to freedom. Lisa Tetzner and Kurt Kläber. Life and work. Curated by Wiltrud Apfeld and Cristina Rita Parau. Cultural area the flora of the city of Gelsenkirchen. September 18 to October 30, 2011. Traveling exhibition

Web links

Commons : Lisa Tetzner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Lisa Tetzner, The Children from No. 67, DTV, cover text
  2. ↑ A street for Lisa Tetzner. In: tagblatt.ch. May 4, 2016, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  3. ^ City of Gelsenkirchen
personal data
SURNAME Tetzner, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1963
Place of death Carona