Liselotte von Reinken

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Liselotte von Reinken (born August 9, 1911 in Bremen ; † August 18, 2005 in Bremen-Walle) was a German historian , biographer of Wilhelm Groener and Paula Modersohn-Becker , and long-time employee at Radio Bremen .

biography

family

Liselotte von Reinken was born in Bremen as the oldest of three daughters. Her grandfather was Daniel von Reinken (1831-1894), the publisher of the State Handbook of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1874 . Her parents were Carl von Reinken (1873–1947) and Carola von Reinken, geb. Hammer (1884-1983). Her aunts were u. a. the Bremen painter Margarethe von Reinken and her sister Daniela, Lilo Ramdohr's mother-in-law . Liselotte von Reinken had no offspring.

education and profession

Von Reinken was a student of the historian Fritz Kern . She worked on the English Minister of War Haldane until 1936 and published a biography of the same.

From October 4, 1937, she began to record the memoirs of former Interior Minister Wilhelm Groener, who had been pushed into retirement by the Nazi regime since 1932, in the form of shorthands in his residence in Bornstedt (Potsdam) and to compare them with contemporary sources. Groener gave her his diaries from 1914 to 1918 in order to prevent confiscation by the Secret State Police . Reinken produced extracts from this material, which she submitted to Groener every week. A first version was already available in March 1938, with criticism of the lack of historical control on the part of Fritz Kern, which Liselotte von Reinken later explained with regard to possible censorship: Anyone who knows the situation realizes that Groener avoided everything when writing his memoirs had what would have made the publication of the book impossible from the start during the Third Reich . She finally completed her work on Groener's memoirs on March 29, 1939, five weeks before his death, after excerpts had already been published.

After 1945, von Reinken became cultural editor at Radio Bremen , where she stayed for 19 years. She was u. a. In 1955 she worked in the book review department, around 1964 program designer in the “Word” department, and in May 1972 she gave interviews on radio history.

In addition, from 1965 onwards, von Reinken wrote further biographies, especially about important women. In 1965 she published a biography of Bertha von Suttner and in 1966 research results on Queen Christine . Reinken's best-known biography, which she wrote together with Günter Busch , deals with the life and work of the Worpswede painter Paula Modersohn-Becker , who worked in the same artist colony as her aunt Margarethe von Reinken . In 1975 Liselotte von Reinken published a treatise on the history of broadcasting in Bremen 1924–1974, in 1983 another book on Paula Modersohn-Becker in Rowohlt-Verlag, and in 1994 she and Günther Busch wrote the catalog for the exhibition of the paintings by Margarethe von Reinkens in the Kunsthalle Bremen .

Von Reinken was buried in the Waller Friedhof in the family grave EE47 in 2005 .

Works and publications

  • Kunsthalle Bremen (ed.), Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken: Margarethe von Reinken. 1877-1962. Paintings, watercolors, drawings . Exhibition catalog, Bremen 1994.
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker with personal testimonials and photo documents . Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1983. ISBN 3-499-50317-4
  • Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker in letters and diaries . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979. ISBN 3-10-050601-4
  • Radio in Bremen 1924–1974 , Bremen 1975.
  • German newspapers about Queen Christine 1626-1689: a first inventory , in: Volume 6 of studies on journalism. Bremer series. German press research, Verlag Fahle, Bremen 1966.
  • Bertha von Suttner: Memoirs , Verlag C. Schünemann, Bremen 1965.
  • Wilhelm Groener : Memories: Youth General Staff World War . Edited by Friedrich Frhr. Hiller von Gaertringen. Volume 41 of German historical sources of the 19th and 20th centuries. Publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1957.
  • Haldane: Outline of a Liberal Imperialist , Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1937.
  • Haldane: Contributions to the history of the post-Bismarckian period and the World War I. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1937

Literature, sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ private genealogy page on the Waller Friedhof
  2. ↑ Groener, Memoirs: Youth, General Staff, World War. Goettingen 1957
  3. ↑ Hans Erich Stier, Fritz Ernst: The world as history, Volume 19, 1959. P. 249
  4. ↑ Groener, Memoirs: Youth, General Staff, World War. Göttingen 1957, p. 22
  5. ^ In Google Books 1937 edition
  6. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1964 p.501 and 1955 p.381
  7. ↑ Interview with Rolf Steininger May 19, 1972, cf. Lit. Steininger p.101
  8. ^ Pre-publication of Haldane's biography in 1937

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personal data
SURNAME Reinken, Liselotte from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2005
Place of death Bremen