Nomi rubles

Nomi Rubel (actually Senta Nomi Grosvogel-Rubel , born Senta Petzon ) (born January 31, 1910 in Magdeburg , † September 11, 1996 in New York City , USA ) was a German-American writer, director and theater director.

Life

Nomi was the only child of the Jewish merchant Julius Petzon . The family lived in the Magdeburg district of Sudenburg in the house at Halberstädter Strasse 126a , today number 48. After attending school in Magdeburg and Hanover , she began an apprenticeship at a commercial college in Berlin in 1927 . However, she did not obtain an apprenticeship qualification.

She got involved in an amateur theater company of the socialist youth workers . She completed a traineeship at the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith . She later worked for Philo-Verlag, which is owned by the association . Nomi was already writing stories. Erich Ollenhauer accepted her story "Der wilde Baum" for publication in the magazine Vorwärts . Then there were several works by Nomis for the youth supplement of this magazine.

At the age of 17 she returned to Magdeburg and published in the Magdeburger Volksstimme and in Jewish publications.

In 1928 she married Herbert Lubranschik , a Jewish Social Democrat from Schönebeck (Elbe) . In 1929 she became the mother of a son Ernst Joseph . The family then moved to Berlin. The first play by the artist Odette took place here in 1932 . A game for peace premiered, which called for tolerance and understanding between Germans and French.

After 1933 occurred to power of the Nazis , the family in 1934 went into exile to Palestine . The marriage broke up. In 1935 the second son Arye was born. In Haifa , Nomi married the Romanian Jew Meir Rubel .

In addition to working as a director (and founder) of kindergartens , Nomi created other stories and plays in German. During this time the pieces Die Töchter (1935/1936) and The Strike (1938) were created, which were taken over by Margot Klausner from Moadim-Bühnenverlag . Klausner made it possible for Nomi Rubel to work at the Habimah Theater . Nomi met Sammy Gronemann , Max Zweig , Leah Goldberg , Max Brod and Dov Stock , who supported her.

In 1948, Nomi Rubel emigrated to New York, USA, where her parents lived. This was preceded by the failure of the second marriage, a life-threatening condition of her son Arye, her own illness and the aggravated social conditions after the war for Israel's independence .

There was initially no artistic success in the USA. After the world premiere of her play The Fight for the Forest in New York in 1949 , Nomi Rubel did not write a stage play for over 10 years.

In the late 1950s she studied directing with Herbert Berghof in New York. She founded The Pegasus Players . In 1961 she went on a tour of Germany , where the comedy The Lost Voice , dedicated to Horst Pinthus , was performed. In the following creative period of almost 20 years, the hardworking playwright created almost 30 plays that were performed. She entered the Dramatists Guild of America in the United States . In 1980 she also became a member of the Association of German-Language Writers in Israel . By a resolution at the 5th General Assembly of the Association on April 14, 1981, that only authors who permanently reside and live in the country may receive the right to membership in the association, their membership was revoked.

Between 1977 and 1979 he wrote autobiographical notes, but they were not published. In 1992 she created her first autobiographical novel Schwarz-Braun ist die Hazelnut . Also the following novel Jardena in 1996 . The story of a new life in an old country was shaped autobiographically. In the last year of her life she returned to her native Magdeburg to visit.

Act

Despite the Holocaust , Rubel saw herself in the tradition of Jewish-German culture, in which she set out in search of Jewish identity. In her works she addressed, on the one hand, the experiences of her generation of displacement, death, separation and loneliness and, on the other hand, sought understanding and tolerance.

Honors

Her native Magdeburg named a street in her honor as Nomi-Rubel-Straße . In Wolmirstedt , the workers' welfare branch was named after Nomi Rubel.

Works

stories

• The wild tree , 1927

Plays

• Odette. A Game for Peace , 1932
• The daughters , 1935/36
• The strike , 1938
• The Fight for the Forest , 1949
• The Lost Voice , 1961
• Victoria , 1963/65
• The Hoot of the Owl , 1966
• Remember me , 1976

Novels

• The flying camel circus. A Tel Aviv novel , 1939
• Ruth , 1943
• My Brother Cain , 1965
• The Eternal Circle , 1975
• The Generals Daughter , 1987
• The hazelnut is black-brown , 1992
• Jardena. The story of a new life in an old country , 1996

Literature / source

• Dagmar Ende: Rubel, Nomi, di Grossvogel-Rubel, Senta Nomi, b. Petzon, Laura Senta, divorced Lubranschik (Lubranschick), divorced ruble, (divorced?) Grossvogel (large bird) . In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 386-389.
• Karlheinz Kärgling: Ruble, Nomi. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
• Tilly Boesche-Zacharow : Not the last word , documentation, 2005, Berlin, ISBN 3-923809-83-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nomi Rubel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Part of Nomi Rubel's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library