Nina Raven-Kindler

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Nina Raven-Kindler , also Raven , Raven-Zoch or simply Kindler (* 1911 ; † September 1, 1996 in Küsnacht ) was a German actress and publisher . She ran Kindler Verlag together with her third husband, Helmut Kindler .

Life

family

Nina Raven was married to the physicist Karlheinz Becker (daughter: Manon) in her first marriage and to the actor and director Georg Zoch (daughter: Georgette) in her second marriage . In her third marriage she was married to the publisher Helmut Kindler , who adopted her daughter Georgette.

Actress in the Third Reich

Nina Raven wanted to be a stage actress and took lessons from Agnes Straub . Her first engagement took her to Elbing in 1939 . There she played the Ingeborg of Curt Goetz . In her second year she played in Berlin, including in Niccodemi's Scampolo in the Rose Theater . Then she got the Kurfürstendamm Theater to do a play with Rudolf Platte , with which the ensemble went on tour.

Back in Berlin, she engaged Georg Zoch , a director and actor who, as a writer, has written numerous plays and more than eighty film scripts. When he met Nina Raven in 1941, he was already banned from directing films. Georg Zoch then became a theater producer of his own plays, for example, for the tabloid comedy Lügen Have Nice Legs , in which Nina Raven appeared in the "Komödienhaus". The collaboration with Georg Zoch was interrupted in the same year by Nina's engagement for two plays in the “Small Theater under the Linden”. Georg Zoch was proud of her success there, which she shared with Hilde Körber , who became her friend. Zoch used the time for a new work, namely for the comedy A man for my wife , which he dedicated to Nina Raven and brought out in 1942 with her and Hilde Hildebrand in the "Komödienhaus". This was followed by his next tabloid play, A clock struck three times , for a tour with Nina Raven . Zoch recognized Nina Raven's artistic possibilities. When he took on the assignment to write a folk play for Danzig, it was clear to him that Nina would have to play the main role: "the sensual maid Paula" in Gans, you stole the fox . Georg Zoch directed and played the male lead.

On the recommendation of Wolfgang Liebeneiner , she was invited to test shoots at UFA . She took on minor roles twice: the director Wolfgang Staudte engaged her as Lydia in the film Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n in 1943 , and Liebeneiner hired her in 1945 for the film Life Goes On , whose shooting had to be stopped due to the events of the war.

Marriage to Georg Zoch

Nina married Georg Zoch. You initially lived in Berlin . Georg Zoch's political burden, however, meant that he received less and less commissions for film scripts. During this difficult time he received news from a production manager friend of Deutsche Prag-Film that he would like to give him orders. Georg Zoch moved with Nina and their daughter Manon to Prague and shortly afterwards to the countryside in Jevany . On February 2, 1944, Nina gave birth to their daughter Georgette in a clinic in Prague. Nina Raven received an engagement at the famous German “ Estates Theater ” in Prague for the coming season . But there was no “upcoming season” anymore, from September 1944 all theaters were closed. The "total war" was declared. Eight weeks after Georgette's birth, her father did not return to Jevany from a professional trip to Vienna . The Nazis killed him in Vienna on the night of March 30th to March 31st, 1944.

End of war and post-war period

Nina Raven-Zoch drove back with the children in October 1944 to Berlin, which was bombed by the Allies . She could not part with her baby, but managed to send Manon to her father in Törwang in Bavaria. She and her daughter Georgette saw the surrender of the city of Berlin on May 2, 1945 and the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8th / 9th. May 1945.

Helmut Kindler and Nina Raven-Zoch met on May 2nd in the hours after Berlin's surrender. They married on May 2, 1947 and moved to Munich in 1948 . After establishing the Illustrated Revue , Helmut and Nina Kindler began book production in their own publishing house in 1951 with the “Memoirs” of the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch , which were a spectacular success and, like the youth magazine Bravo, later enabled the publisher's further activities. From 1955 they jointly published the cultural magazine Das Schönste . In 1960 the couple moved to Zurich .

Training analysis and editing

Between 1957 and 1964, Nina Kindler completed a seven-year Jungian- style training analysis with the Munich doctor and psychologist Gustav Richard Heyer and his colleague Hilde Supan. In their will, there was an order that Nina should take over her psychotherapeutic practice. She renounced in favor of her work in the publishing house.

In 1964 Nina Kindler acquired the paperback rights to Anna Freud's book “Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen” and opened the series “Geist und Psyche” with this title. In it she also took on the title "Freud as a writer" by Walter Muschg . Muschg was one of the first to see in Freud not only the pioneer of psychoanalysis , but the "master of language".

Nina planned a series on different psychological and psychotherapeutic topics. Over the years reprints and new publications of all directions in depth psychology have appeared , that is, in addition to Freudian psychoanalysis, Jungian analytical psychology as well as Adler's individual psychology . In addition, neo-psychoanalysis ( Horney , Sullivan, Fromm), Daseinsanalysis ( Ludwig Binswanger , Medard Boss ), marriage therapy ( Heigl-Evers ), talk therapy ( Carl R. Rogers ), group therapy (Foulkes, Kemper) and psychosomatics ( Viktor von Weizsäcker ). More and more remote areas were also included, such as prenatal psychology (GH Graber, A. Rascorski) or analytical anthropology ( G. Róheim , Hans Kunz ). The series also remained open for border areas ( Montessori schools , Steiner's Waldorf schools , psychoanalytic pedagogy ). There were also social psychologists , educational psychologists and behavioral therapists say. There was also a volume by JH Schultz , the founder of autogenic training , as well as publications by authors who dealt with graphology .

In 1982, Nina Kindler received the first diploma awarded by the European Society for Writing Psychology for the graphological title .

The focus of the series was on psychoanalytic literature. Four volumes by Georg Groddeck , four volumes by Theodor Reik , five volumes by the “gentle Freud rebel” Karen Horney, six volumes by Günter Ammon and, last but not least, Sigmund Freud's Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety prove it. The titles of authors who drew on Freudian psychoanalysis in their subjects increased steadily.

“The close observer could not fail to notice that within this part of the program Nina increasingly preferred titles that dealt with the child's psyche. Anna Freud's second volume in Geist und Psyche , which Nina had 'rediscovered', namely Anna Freud's Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis , signals this development. The three books by John Bowlby, Maternal Care and Mental Recovery , Separation and Bonding , should be mentioned as representative of numerous other authors . "

Geist und Psyche was flanked by a paperback series The Psychology of the Child, introduced and edited by Jochen Stork .

Political commitment

The book Pan-Europa by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi confirmed her basic political convictions, she was inspired by the utopia: Europe and pacifism . Heinz Ullstein called her an "uncompromising, even pathological pacifist". Her long-time friend and fellow actor Erich Hasberg was her companion on the Easter marches in Munich for many years .

Filmography

Fonts

  • Nina Kindler (Ed.): Love. Love poems by German, Austrian and Swiss authors from the 16th century to the present . Munich: Kindler 1980. ISBN 3-463-00789-4

literature

  • Helmut Kindler : A party to say goodbye. The autobiography of a German publisher , Munich: Kindler 1991.
  • Helmut Kindler: Put me on your heart like a seal. A circumstantial novel about the “Holy Family” with many children in Nazareth , Munich: Kindler 1997. The book contains * Heinz Ullstein : Helmut and Nina Kindler. Two portrait sketches , from: Wolf Keienburg (Ed.): Texts for a curriculum vitae - pictures for a publisher's chronicle. Helmut Kindler on his 70th birthday , Zurich: Kindler Verlag 1982, p. 110 ff. (Online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 165 kB)
  • Fritz J. Raddatz : Cadillac and Kortner. Helmut Kindler on his 85th birthday , ZEIT-ONLINE, November 28, 1997 (online at zeit.de)
  • Fritz J. Raddatz: Troublemaker. Memories . Propylaeen, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-549-07198-1 (excerpts online at pkgodzik.de) (PDF; 74 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georgette Kindler wrote the book Papi is to blame for everything , Munich: Kindler 1956
  2. ↑ Helmut Kindler: For parting a party , p. 292
  3. ↑ Helmut Kindler: A party for parting , p. 284 ff.
  4. ↑ . The publisher's claim that it was an autobiography by Sauerbruch is denied by his student Nissen . In Helle Blätter, dunkle Blätter (172 ff.) He describes exactly how the text came about at the time of Sauerbruch's severe memory disorders . The actual author is the SS man and journalist Hans Rudolf Berndorff . The book was full of errors.
  5. ↑ Helmut Kindler: For parting a party , p. 482
  6. ↑ Helmut Kindler: For parting a party , p. 488
  7. ↑ http://www.egs-graphologie.org/portrait_egs.html ( Memento from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Helmut Kindler: For parting a party , p. 489
  9. ↑ Quoted from Helmut Kindler: For parting a party , p. 285
  10. ↑ Complete list of actors (online at imdb.com)
personal data
SURNAME Raven-Kindler, Nina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raven, Nina; Raven-Zoch, Nina; Kindler, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, graphologist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1996
Place of death Küsnacht