Luce d'Eramo

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Luce d'Eramo (born Lucette Mangione ; June 17, 1925 in Reims , France ; died March 6, 2001 in Rome ) was an Italian author.

Life

Lucette Mangione's parents were bourgeois Italians who had found employment in Reims and Paris and returned to Italy at the start of World War II in 1939 . Called Lucetta in the family, she now had the first name Luce. After graduating from high school, she began studying in Rome and then in Padua , but in February 1944 volunteered as an Italian foreign worker for work in the German Reich. In an IG Farben plant in Frankfurt-Höchst , her fascist convictions encountered the reality of forced labor in German industry. She complained to one of the plant managers, Walter Popp, about the poor living conditions in the camp and supported a strike by forced laborers for better food. The violence against the workers involved in the strike resulted in a mental breakdown and inpatient hospital treatment. Thanks to the name of her father, who had become State Secretary in the fascist Repubblica Sociale Italiana in 1943 , and the influence of the Italian consul, she was spared reprisals and sent home. Back in northern Italy, she continued her personal revolt against the political situation and was deported by the German SS to the Dachau concentration camp . She was able to escape from concentration camp detention after twelve weeks on a work assignment in Munich and stayed illegally in the German Reich. On February 27, 1945 she was so badly injured by the collapsing masonry in Mainz while trying to rescue people buried in the war that she had to be hospitalized in German hospitals until December 1945. She was paralyzed from the waist down and henceforth dependent on a wheelchair.

After her return to Italy she married the philosophy teacher Pacifico d'Eramo in 1946, from whom she separated in 1952 - a civil divorce was not planned in Italy at the time for church reasons. She studied philosophy and literature and received her doctorate in 1951 with a thesis on the aesthetics of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi . In 1954 she received her doctorate for a second time with a dissertation on Kant's Critique of Judgment . With her son Marco d'Eramo , born in 1947 , she stayed in Glashütten im Taunus for a time in the early 1960s with the doctor who had treated her in 1945. Marco attended the German school there.

Alberto Moravia encouraged her to write. She was close friends with Ignazio Silone and wrote a biography about him. Other works were a report on the murder of the anarchist publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and the report "Nucleo Zero" on the inner workings of a terrorist group , which was then made into a film by Carlo Lizzani . She wrote articles for the left wing newspaper Il Manifesto, which her son co-edited . In her autobiographical writings, she only approached the events of 1944 and 1945 in stages. Her escape from Dachau brought her to paper in 1953. She described the hospital stay in Mainz in 1961 and the voluntary trip to the labor service in Germany finally in 1975, with which she only admitted herself at the end of a thirty year long self-deception and now worked on it literarily.

She got involved in the Women for Peace initiative . In 1980 she received a scholarship for the Berlin artist program . In 1988 she had an accident with her wheelchair while visiting the Frankfurt Book Fair and was henceforth even more disabled. In 1995, Raimund Koplin and Renate Stegmüller produced the documentary Luce, Wanda, Jelena - It wasn't their war about them, Wanda Heger and Jelena Rschewskaja .

Works (selection)

  • Un'estate difficile: romanzo . Mondadori, Milano 2001, posthumously
  • Racconti quasi di guerra . Mondadori, Milano 1999
  • Raskolnikov e il marxismo: note a un libro di Moravia e altri scritti . Pellicanolibri, Roma 1997
  • Si prega di non disturbare . Rizzoli, Milano 1995
  • Ignazio Silone . Ed. Riminesi Associati, Rimini 1994
  • Ultima luna: romanzo . Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano 1993
  • Partiranno . Mondadori, Milano 1986
  • The rhetoric of the fascist exercise of power or: Sacrifice is power , German by Renate Weise. In: Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel (ed.): Women and power: the everyday contribution of women to the politics of patriarchy. Publica, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-89087-013-9 , pp. 75-80; Contribution to the discussion in the symposium p. 99; Short biography p. 369
  • Nucleo Zero . Arnoldo Mondadori editore, Milano 1981
    • Group Zero . Novel. German by Evalouise Panzner. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982
  • Deviazione . A. Mondadori, Milano 1979
    • The detour . Novel. Translation Sarah Michel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981
    • The detour . Novel. Translation of Linde Birk. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2018
  • Cruciverba politico: come funziona in Italia la strategia della diversione . Guaraldi, Rimini 1974
  • L'opera di Ignazio Silone. Saggio critico e guida bibliografica . Mondadori, Milano 1971
  • Finché la testa vive. romanzo . Milano, Rizzoli 1964
    • As long as the head lives . Novel. German Klaus Stiller. Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1976
  • Idilli in coro. Romanzo . Gastaldi, Milan 1951

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald Wieser: A lovable fascist . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1982 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b Ambros Waibel: “She wanted to believe it was compulsion”. Conversation with Marco d'Eramo . In: taz , August 31, 2013, p. 26 f.
  3. ↑ a b Hannes Schwenger 1979
  4. ↑ Luce, Wanda, Jelena - It wasn't her war on base film.
personal data
SURNAME D'Eramo, Luce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mangione, Lucette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims , France
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 2001
Place of death Rome