Maria Gleit

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Maria Gleit (actually Herta Klara Gleitsmann ; born February 28, 1909 in Crimmitschau ; † July 9, 1981 in Locarno ) was a German writer and journalist . In addition to various newspaper articles, she wrote children's books and novels in the style of the new objectivity .

Life

Herta Gleitsmann came from a Thuringian working class family. After attending primary school and training as a typist , she completed a traineeship at the Saxon Volksblatt in Zwickau . There she wrote poems and fairy tales for the children's and youth supplement. In the editorial office, she met her future husband Walther Victor , with whom she moved to Berlin , where she worked as an editor for women's issues for a news agency. She also wrote theater reviews and literary criticisms .

After the National Socialists came to power , Maria Gleit and Walther Victor left Germany. After working in Switzerland , Luxembourg and France , where Gleit wrote articles for the Pariser Tageblatt , as well as in Spain and Portugal , they reached New York in 1939 . Two years after the end of the Second World War , Walther Victor returned to Germany alone, and the marriage was divorced in 1949. With her second husband Leo Hoffmann, Gleit moved to Switzerland in 1950, where she committed suicide in 1981. She had stopped publishing in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

  • Men's fashion department. A department store girl's novel. Amonesta, Vienna / Leipzig 1933, DNB 993192823 .
  • Never mind, Barbara! Zinnen-Verlag, Basel / Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1933, DNB 991929136 .
  • A whole girl. What a girl can experience. Hanns-Jörg Fischer-Verlag, Berlin and Leipzig 1937, DNB 573476985 .
  • You don't have a bed, my child. Oprecht , Zurich and New York 1938, DNB 573476942 .
  • Child of China. Translated by EF Peeler, illustrated by Walter Holz. Oxford University Press, London / New York, NY / Toronto 1939, 1948, 1958, DNB 992456479

literature

  • Anke Heimberg: “You can write anywhere. That's the good thing about my job. ”The writer Maria Gleit (1909-1981) in exile. In: Julia Schöll (Ed.): Gender, Exile, Writing , with a foreword by Guy Stern . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2002, pp. 41-68, ISBN 978-3-8260-2360-6 .
  • Kristina Schulz: Switzerland and the literary refugees (1933-1945) (= German literature , volume 9). Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2012, pp. 141–153, ISBN 978-3-05-005640-1 (Habilitation Uni Bern 2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gleitsmann, Herta Klara. In: Michael Hepp, Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger. De Gruyter, 1985, p. 286. ISBN 978-3-598-10538-8 .
  2. ↑ Publishing information
personal data
SURNAME Slide, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleitsmann, Herta Klara (maiden name); Gliding man, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Crimmitschau
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1981
Place of death Locarno