Nora von Beroldingen

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Nora von Beroldingen , b. Kapp von giltstein, m. Winkler von Kapp, (born March 14, 1889 in Constantinople , † October 18, 1953 in Partenkirchen ) was a German journalist .

Life

She was born in Constantinople as the daughter of Carl Otto Kapp von giltstein . On June 17, 1919, she married Major Egon Reichsgraf von Beroldingen (1885–1933) in Potsdam . The marriage, which was divorced in 1922, had son Alexander, who stayed with his mother.

During the inflation, Beroldingen lost her fortune, lived with friends in Partenkirchen for three years and moved to Berlin in 1925 . Here she came into contact with Alfred Kerr , Theodor Wolf and Georg Bernhard and became active as a journalist. Politically interested, she campaigned for international understanding and against war and was part of the German delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva from 1926 to 1930 . In 1932 she married the historian Martin Eduard Winkler .

As early as 1933 she was banned from working under the National Socialists . She fled Berlin with her husband in 1941 and lived in Partenkirchen again from then on. After the end of the Second World War, she worked as the editor of the Hochland-Bote and published the supplement Frauenspiegel from 1947 to 1950 . Her articles appeared in numerous newspapers, including in the Neue Zeit . Beroldingen increasingly campaigned for women's rights. She "was one of the regional founders of the southern German women's working group, the German-American women's club and the district association of the European Union".

In 1949 she wrote her memoirs, which have been preserved in manuscript. She died in Partenkirchen in 1953 and was buried in the local cemetery.

Works

  • 1945: Gigantowitsch or The Unleashed Proleteus: Over 150 jokes and stories from the 3rd Reich. Experienced, collected and told by Nora Winkler von Kapp

literature

  • Jörg M. Bossert: From the Bosporus to the Werdenfelser Land: An attempt at a biography of the journalist Nora Countess von Beroldingen Stuttgart 2006.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume 63. CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1976, p. 43.
  2. ↑ The man of letters . Volume 21/22, 1979, p. 58.
  3. ^ Fritz Fellner, Doris Corradini (ed.): Austrian history in the 20th century: a biographical-bibliographical lexicon . Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, p. 456.
  4. ^ Margot Schäfer: Writer for the rights of women . merkur-online.de, March 8, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Beroldingen, Nora von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapp von giltstein, Nora von (maiden name); Winkler von Kapp, Nora (second married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1953
Place of death Partenkirchen