Lore Mallachow

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lore Mallachow (born October 4, 1894 in Leipzig , † September 27, 1973 ibid) was a German socialist writer who mainly took on women's biographies in the GDR .

Life

Lore Mallachow, who lost her father, a businessman, at an early age, had a childhood full of privation. The upbringing was taken over by her mother, who worked as a music and literature teacher and conveyed artistic inclinations and social feelings to the daughter. Mallachow attended seminars at the University for Women in Leipzig (the later Henriette Goldschmidt School for Women), which was specifically geared towards the connection between educational science and women's education, where she received suggestions for her first literary attempts. From 1913 to 1921 she worked as a technical assistant in agriculture and in the potash mine . After the nine years in which she had been confronted with the hard and hard capitalist working conditions in particular for women , she had to give up this job herself for health reasons. She secured her existence through marriage.

In the Weimar Republic before 1933, the mother of two now wrote articles on social problems along with her first poetry and prose texts . She was deprived of the opportunity to publish during the National Socialist period from 1933 to 1945. But she created poems that she later refused to publish and a manuscript for a novel that was burned by the bombing war . She suffered from the circumstances dictated by the Nazi regime and had to accept the loss of her son, who was killed as a soldier in the war . After the war, Mallachow got involved in the anti-fascist women's committee and began to write again. At that time, and then again from 1954, she gave literature lessons at the Henriette-Goldschmidt-Schule before the institution specialized in kindergarten teachers with the originally broad range of training. Mallachow became a member of the union 17 for art and literature, the original cell of the German Writers 'Association (DSV), which she co-founded in 1950 , and acted as chairman and board member of the German Writers' Association in the Leipzig district . She had also been involved in the founding of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany (DFD) three years earlier. Starting in 1954, her contributions to the radio series German Past Today Seen and she took on a research assignment from the DSV with the development of a novel about the women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters . A long-standing friendship with Anna Seghers developed, accompanied by an exchange of letters .

Around 1958, SED member Lore Mallachow was a board member in the Leipzig District Peace Council and from 1961 she was a city councilor in the committee for culture. In addition, she worked as a lecturer in training courses for company librarians.

plant

In Lore Mallachow's novels and stories dominate, alongside some male artists, portraits of women and the biographies of women writers. Her story Death of a Poet about Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , published in 1948, was followed by a biography of Bettina von Arnim in 1952 , and a year later she was co-editor of a Bettina reader. Also in 1953 she published a selection of works by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Mallachow continued to focus on progressive women of the 19th century, and so, in 1957, you are close to me , a novel about Christiane Vulpius that achieved numerous editions. In 1958 Mallachow published the anthology Im Morgenlicht with twelve stories that illuminate portraits of women from the 18th and 19th centuries. In contrast to the mostly positive reviews in the GDR press, Eberhard Hilscher criticized Mallachow's unsatisfactory manner of presentation and the artificial-looking form of dialogue in New Germany . For the reviewer of the BZ in the evening , her writing style was "plain and simple".

In the 1950s she occasionally wrote articles for the women's editorial team of the Wochenpost magazine and the Leipzig edition of the Börsenblatt for the German book trade . In 1960 she published an illustrated book on the life and work of Clara Zetkin , which was followed in 1962 by a text for a Clara Zetkin cantata , composed by a collective of composers from the Pedagogical Institute in Leipzig, which was broadcast on the radio and which was considering expressive dances for public performance were drawn. The British Crown Attorney Denis Nowell Pritt , an honorary citizen of Leipzig, translated Mallachow's text into English. Between 1958 and 1960 she wrote individual articles for a women's encyclopedia and in 1961 worked on a chronicle of the Leipzig wool combing company. With a story about the composer Albert Lortzing published in 1962, Mallachow also made a name for herself as an author of books for children and young people. In 1964 she announced a brochure about the artist's castle in Wiepersdorf , in whose collective she had been appointed by the Berlin Institute for the Preservation of Monuments , which was not actually published until 1968. The novel Once Upon a Time, written for young people, was published posthumously in 1973 . From the life of the Brothers Grimm , which was followed by numerous editions until 1985. Mallachow's other poetic projects remained unfinished, such as a novel about the revolutionary Robert Blum .

Awards

Work overview

Literary works

  • Lore Mallachow: The Death of the Poet , 1948 (no bibliographic evidence).
  • Lore Mallachow: Bettina (=  Berlin miniatures . Volume 12 ). The New Berlin , Berlin 1952.
  • Bettina von Arnim: Bettina. A reader for our time . Ed .: Gerda Berger, Lore Mallachow, Gertrud Meyer-Hepner (=  reading books for our time ). 1st edition. Thüringer Volksverlag , Weimar 1953.
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. Life picture of Levin Schücking and selection from her work . Introduced and edited by Lore Mallachow. Ed .: Lore Mallachow. 1st edition. Koehler & Amelang , Leipzig 1953.
  • Lore Mallachow: You are close to me. Novel . 1st edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 1957.
  • Lore Mallachow: In the morning light . 1st edition. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1958.
  • Lore Mallachow: Clara Zetkin. Your life in pictures . Text and image part by Lore Mallachow. 1st edition. Publishing house encyclopedia , Leipzig 1960.
  • Irene Uhlmann with the collaboration of Lore Mallachow, Gudrun Thomas-Petersein and Inge Brandt (ed.): Small Encyclopedia: Die Frau (=  Small Encyclopedia . Volume [6] ). 1st edition. Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1961 (with contributions by Lore Mallachow).
  • Lore Mallachow: The curtain opens. A story about Albert Lortzing . 1st edition. Children's book publisher , Berlin 1962.
  • Lore Mallachow: Once upon a time. From the life of the Brothers Grimm . 1st edition. Children's book publisher, Berlin 1973 (several editions until 1985; illustrator: Paul Rosié ).

Musical works

  • 1963: Clara Zetkin. We comb the coarse wool. Musical poem for solos, choir, speaker, orchestra (cantata, text: Lore Mallachow).
  • 1967: The dam (cantata, text: Lore Mallachow).
  • 1969: The people's strength. Cantata for the 20th anniversary of the GDR (cantata, text: Lore Mallachow).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Günter Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Paul Günter Krohn (eds.): Lexicon of German-speaking writers from the beginning to the present . 1st edition. L-Z. VEB Bibliographisches Institut , Leipzig 1968, p. 95 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g St .: For the rights of women. A visit to the writer Lore Mallachow . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . No. 235 , October 10, 1954.
  3. ↑ a b Lore Mallachow: You are close to me. Novel . Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 1957 (blurb).
  4. ^ A b Administrator: School history of the Henriette Goldschmidt School. In: goldschmidtschule-leipzig.de. Henriette Goldschmidt School. Vocational school center of the city of Leipzig, August 20, 2006, accessed on November 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Hans Pfeiffer : Fighter to the end . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . Leipzig September 30th 1973.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Richter : The optimism of a deep life. For Lore Mallachow's 75th birthday . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . Leipzig September 27, 1969, p. 4 (LVZ supplement).
  7. ↑ a b c Congratulations to Comrade Malachow [sic] . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . No. 230 , October 3, 1954.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h F. M .: Lore Mallachow on her 70th birthday . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . Leipzig 4th October 1964.
  9. ↑ Friederike Frach: Wiepersdorf Castle, The “Künstlerheim” under the influence of cultural politics in the GDR . 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-674-1 , p. 82 f .
  10. ↑ a b c A “Clara Zetkin Cantata” . In: Westfälische Rundschau . Dortmund October 15th 1962.
  11. ↑ Karich: How we met the writer Lore Mallachow . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . November 24, 1961.
  12. ^ Lutz Winckler: Cultural renewal and social mission. On the inventory policy of public libraries and company libraries in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR 1945 to 1951 . Ed .: Wolfgang Frühwald , Georg Jäger , Dieter Langewiesche , Alberto Martino, Rainer Wohlfeil (=  studies and texts on the social history of literature . Volume 20 ). Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-484-35020-2 , interim report on the training of Leipzig company librarians (1951), p. 106 .
  13. ↑ a b –nk: “You are close to me”. Roman von Mallachow, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 345 p., 4.80 DM . In: BZ in the evening . November 29, 1957.
  14. ↑ Eberhard Hilscher: Significant female figures . In: New Germany . Berlin December 24, 1958, art and literature.
  15. ↑ a b c d Lore Mallachow . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . Leipzig October 4, 1962, culture briefly.
  16. ↑ Friederike Frach: Wiepersdorf Castle, The “Künstlerheim” under the influence of cultural politics in the GDR . 1st edition. Christoph Links Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-674-1 , p. 124 .
  17. ^ Klaus KÄNDER: Mallachow . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Authors and works in German . 1st edition. tape 7 . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1990, ISBN 3-570-04677-X , p. 437 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mallachow, Lore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1973
Place of death Leipzig