Lotte Paepcke

Lotte Paepcke (born as Lotte Mayer June 28, 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died August 9, 2000 in Karlsruhe ) was a German writer .

Stumbling block for Lotte Paepcke and her son in Stegen

Life

Lotte Mayer came from a Jewish family. She was the daughter of working in the leather industry businessman Max Mayer, as representatives of the SPD the Freiburg city council belonged. Lotte Mayer grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau and attended high school there . After graduating from high school , she studied law ; she was a member of a communist student organization . In 1933 she passed the state examination in law, but could no longer begin her legal clerkship because of the National Socialist seizure of power .

She went to Italy with her brother and worked in a law firm in Rome , but returned to Germany . She married the philologist Ernst Paepcke ; In 1935 their son Peter was born. In the later years of the Third Reich , she was spared deportation because of the status of her marriage, which was considered " privileged mixed marriage " under the Nuremberg Laws . She followed her husband to Bielefeld , Cologne and Leipzig , where she last had to do forced labor in a factory. In 1942, with the help of a doctor, she returned illegally to Freiburg im Breisgau, where she went into hiding and lived in various hiding places until 1944, most recently in a hospital. After the heavy bombing raid on Freiburg on November 27, 1944 , she and her son found refuge in Stegen Abbey . After World War II , she gave birth to two more children. She wrote articles for magazines and the radio . Lotte Paepcke last lived in Karlsruhe .

Paepcke was the author of prose texts , most of which had her experiences during the Third Reich on the subject, as well as poems . In 1988 she received the Reinhold Schneider Prize and in 1998 the Johann Peter Lever Prize .

In 1951, Paepcke was the first consultant at what is today marriage, family and partnership counseling Karlsruhe eV. Alice Haidinger, co-founder of the counseling center and 49-year-old chairwoman of the sponsoring association, remembers: "Ms. Lotte Paepcke was asked to simply start. From 1953 to 1956 Lotte Paepcke was the head of the counseling center, which at the time was called the "Trust Center for Fiancées and Spouses".

Commemoration

Gunter Demnig laid Stolpersteine in Stegen in 2004 , one stone commemorates the rescue of Lotte Paepcke and her son Peter.

Fonts (selection)

Under a strange star , Frankfurt am Main 1952
A small dealer who was my father , Heilbronn 1972
I was forgotten , Freiburg im Breisgau 1979
Here and away , Mainz 1980
Words , Münster 1983
I was meant , Karlsruhe 1987
Collected Poems , Moos 1989

literature

Sigurd Paul Scheichl: Paepcke, Lotte. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 394f.

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personal data
SURNAME	Paepcke, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mayer, Lotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	August 9, 2000
Place of death	Karlsruhe