Margarete Petrides

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Margarete Petrides (born March 25, 1901 in Vienna ; † February 19, 1973 there ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Margarete Petrides was the daughter of the academic painter Konrad Petrides and his wife Auguste Petrides. After primary school, she trained as a seamstress. From the mid-1920s, Margarete Petrides published poems in the journal Der Naturfreund and in the Arbeiter-Zeitung , where her socially critical novel The Sorrowful appeared in 1932 . This is about a seamstress who has lost her "good, long-term post". In the introduction the author wrote that by describing an individual fate, she wanted to "clarify the necessity of proletarian union". In 1933 Margarete Petrides joined the Association of Socialist Writerson. At the association's second authors' evening in June 1933, which had the motto of satire and pathos in the class war, she read alongside Walter Lindenbaum , Ernst Waldinger , Benedikt Fantner and Hans Leifhelm .

After February 1934 , she joined the illegalized Communist Party . During the forbidden demonstration in Vienna on February 12, 1935 against the dictator of the Austrofascists , she was arrested and imprisoned for six weeks. In March 1937 she was arrested again while distributing leaflets and sentenced to three months' detention for her work in the Communist Party. In January 1938 she was arrested a third time and again imprisoned for three months. Her sister Lucia Petrides was also arrested several times for political activities. As for the time of Nazi rule, her partly autobiographical novel Hedwig Zadinek gives . Novel by a Viennese worker , published in 1947, information. She was probably taken into protective custody several times between 1938 and 1945 .

After 1945 Margarete Petrides was a functionary of the KPÖ. The author spent the last months of her life in the Laaerberg retirement home in Vienna- Favoriten .

Works

  • Those who suffer . Novel in sequels in Arbeiter-Zeitung (from January 24th to March 3rd, 1932)
  • Hedwig Zadinek. Novel by a Viennese worker , Vienna 1947

literature

  • Brigitte Lehmann: Margarete Petrides. The seamstress who was a writer. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Ed. Theodor Kramer Society . No. 1, April 2013 ISSN  1606-4321 pp. 34-36

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarete Petrides: My novel "The Sorrowful". In: Arbeiter-Zeitung, January 23, 1932, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Petrides, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1973
Place of death Vienna