Lotte Strub-Rayß
Lotte (Lieselotte) Strub-Rayß (born January 17, 1912 in Kaiserslautern , † January 6, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German teacher, author and victim of the Soviet gulag system, in which she was detained for 16 years. She became known through the autobiography " Damned and Disenfranchised. ... 16 Years of Gulag and Exile ", published in 2018 by her son Konrad Rayß . For many years she was the partner and collaborator of the playwright Friedrich Wolf , with whom she had a child. Together with Lorenz Lochthofen , with whom she was briefly married, she had another daughter. Her autobiography is regarded as an important contribution to the history of the German political emigrants before and during the Second World War.
literature
- Konrad Rayß (ed.), Lotte Strub-Rayß: Damned and Disenfranchised. Stuttgart - Basel - Moscow ... 16 years of Gulag and exile . trafo, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86465-049-9
- Hans-Joachim Seidel, Lotte Rayss (1912-2008). A woman from Stuttgart in the wake of Friedrich Wolf, victim of persecution and injustice in two regimes and, for a short time, my father's friend, Gransee 2015
- Andreas Petersen, The Muscovites. How the Stalin trauma shaped the GDR. Frankfurt am Main 2019 ISBN 9783103974355
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| SURNAME | Strub-Rayß, Lotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strub-Rayß, Lieselotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, author and victim of the Soviet gulag system |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berlin |