Nahida Ruth Lazarus

Nahida Ruth Lazarus, 1899

Moritz Lazarus and Nahida Ruth Lazarus-Remy around 1895

Nahida Ruth Lazarus (born February 3, 1849 in Berlin , Prussia , † January 17, 1928 in Meran , Italy ) was a German writer and journalist.

Life

Her parents were the art historian Max Schasler and the writer Nahida Sturmhöfel . Around 1854 she moved with her mother to the south of France, then to Palermo and returned to Berlin in 1864. She trained as an actress and had her first engagement in Wroclaw in 1866 . After a year as a teacher and another stage engagement in Warmbrunn , she returned to Berlin and lived here as a freelance writer. She wrote articles for the Vossische Zeitung, the Monday Newspaper, Westermann's monthly newspapers and other magazines. Through her theater work, she met the art and theater critic Max Remy , with whom she was married until his death in 1881. After intensive studies she converted to Judaism in 1895 and married the ethnic psychologist Moritz Lazarus and moved with him to Merano in 1897 and lived there until her death.

Works

The bill without the host . Comedy 1870
Where the oranges bloom , novel 1872
Constanze , play 1879
The Counts Eckardstein , Drama 1880
Paths of Destiny , folk play 1880
Domenico , play 1884
National Opposites Drama 1884
Sicilian Novellas 1886 (New edition 1886 entitled Hot Blood )
Love spells , drama 1887
Secret forces , novel in two volumes, 1890
The Jewish woman 1891
Cultural studies on Judaism 1893 (2nd edition 1898 under the title The Jewish House )
I was looking for you! Biographical story 1898
My picture collection 1911

Editing

Moritz Lazarus' memoirs in 1906
The renewal of Judaism . An appeal by Moritz Lazarus in 1909
A German professor in Switzerland. Moritz Lazarus. 1910
From my youth. Autobiography by Moritz Lazarus 1913

literature

Adolf Hinrichsen: The Literary Germany , 2nd ed. 1891-1892, page 1093-1094
Lazarus, Nahida Ruth . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 1. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 483 ( digitized version ).
Remy, Nahida . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 183 ( digitized version ).
Dagmar Reese: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: Nahida Ruth Lazarus, the “Jewish woman” . In: Medaon - Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education , 6th year, 2012, No. 11, pp. 1–8.
Lazarus, Nahida Ruth , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 217
Lazarus, Nahida Ruth , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 10, Col. 1519.
Dagmar Reese: Jewish women writers - rediscovered: Nahida Ruth Lazarus, the “Jewish woman” . In: Medaon 11/2012 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Nahida Ruth Lazarus - Collection of Images

Literature by and about Nahida Ruth Lazarus in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Nahida Ruth Lazarus in the catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

↑ Lazarus, Nahida Ruth. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 254-259.

personal data
SURNAME	Lazarus, Nahida Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Remy, Nahida (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 17, 1928
Place of death	Meran

[1] Lazarus, Nahida Ruth. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 254-259.