Oda Schaefer

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Oda Schaefer b. Kraus (born December 21, 1900 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin ; † September 4, 1988 in Munich ) was a German-Baltic writer and journalist .

Life

Oda's parents were the journalist Eberhard Kraus (1857–1918) and his wife Alice geb. Baertels , who came from a Dorpater merchant family.

Oda Kraus grew up in the Baltic States, then attended a lyceum in Berlin and then went through drawing training at a private arts and crafts school. Then she worked as a commercial artist . In 1923 she married the painter Albert Schaefer-Ast , with whom she had a son in 1924. The marriage ended in divorce after a short time. In 1926, Oda Schaefer moved to Liegnitz for family reasons , where her brother Wolfgang Kraus lived. There she met the writer Horst Lange , with whom she returned to Berlin in 1931. The marriage followed in 1933.

Schaefer has published articles for fashion magazines and feature pages , poetry and radio plays since 1928 . During the time of National Socialism she belonged with Lange and Günter Eich to the circle around the literary magazine Die Kolonne , which is assigned to the inner emigration . Other close friends from this time are Peter Huchel and Elisabeth Langgässer . Texts by her appeared at this time in the magazine Das Innere Reich and in the Frankfurter Zeitung . Oda Schaefer was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer . Although Oda Schaefer and her husband Horst Lange were opponents of the Nazi regime , they also helped some Jews by hiding them for a while, on the other hand they continued to publish in official organs during this time.

During the Second World War , Oda's son from his first marriage went missing from 1944. Horst Lange returned seriously wounded. In the post-war period , the Lange couple lived in Mittenwald , then in Switzerland and from 1950 in Munich . There she worked as a freelancer for various newspapers and radio stations.

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Schaefer's literary work consists primarily of poetry in traditional forms based on the model of the natural lyricists Wilhelm Lehmann and Georg von der Vring . With Horst Lange, she kept her distance from Kahlschlag literature and Group 47 . Since the 1930s she has written numerous radio plays. Her life story inspired her great-nephew Chris Kraus to write the feature film Poll (2010) with Paula Beer in the leading role.

  • The wind harp . Berlin 1939.
  • Earthly escort . Munich 1946.
  • The chestnut bud . Munich 1947.
  • Incomparable rose . Stuttgart 1948.
  • Cat walk . Munich 1956.
  • Grass melody . Munich 1959.
  • The boutique . Munich 1963.
  • Ladies only or The art of being a lady . Zurich 1963.
  • And you ask me what was with love . Munich [u. a.] 1968.
  • Even when you dream, the clocks go . Munich 1970.
  • The green tone . Munich 1973.
  • The skin of the world . Munich [u. a.] 1976.
  • The shining festivals over mourning . Munich 1977.
  • Return . Munich [u. a.] 1985.
  • Ballads and poems . Munich 1995.
  • Even when you dream, the clocks work - memories up to 1945 and from the post-war period (both souvenir volumes in one volume), Munich 2012.
  • I was always. I will always be . Poems from 50 Years, Munich 2012.

Editing

  • Sally von Kügelgen : Silent diary of a Baltic lady 1855/1856 , Berlin 1936.
  • Madonnas. An illustrated book with poems . Munich 1947.
  • Under the sapphic moon. German women's poetry since 1900 . Munich 1957.
  • Schwabing . Munich 1958.
  • The dandy . Munich 1964.
  • Schwabing in love, crazy, wasted . Munich 1972.

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SURNAME Schaefer, Oda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraus, Oda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilmersdorf b. Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1988
Place of death Munich