Paula Schlier

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Paula Schlier (born March 12, 1899 in Neuburg an der Donau , † May 28, 1977 in Bad Heilbrunn ) was a German writer . She lived mainly in Bavaria, most recently in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg and in Bad Heilbrunn. Her debut work Petras Aufzüge or Concept of a Youth According to the Dictation of Time (1926) is considered to be one of the first books of New Objectivity with the theme of the "New Woman" and is one of the first works of investigative journalism in the German language. In addition, Schlier takes a clear position against National Socialism here . Her second book Chorónoz. A book of Reality in Dreams was published in 1928 by the renowned Kurt Wolff Verlag , it contains dream texts that seem close to surrealism . In 1932 she also turned to Catholicism in literary terms . She worked for the Austrian magazine Der Brenner , published by Ludwig von Ficker , in which many of her religious poems appeared.

Life

Paula Schlier was the older child of the military doctor Heinrich Schlier sen. and his wife Pauline, b. Pulse. A year after her, her brother Heinrich Schlier jun. born. Unlike her brother, she was not allowed to attend grammar school, but received her training at the Gnadental Higher School for Daughters in Ingolstadt . As early as 1915, she registered as a volunteer war nurse at the Bavarian Red Cross. In 1921 she went to Munich , where she worked as a shorthand typist . Her first articles against the burgeoning National Socialism appeared in January 1923 . In the autumn of 1923, she was employed as a secretary in the National Socialist newspaper Völkischer Beobachter to check, as she said, “whether such popular enthusiasm could really be without any deeper justification”. She witnessed the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch attempt in Munich in 1923 first hand . And: She recorded everything she heard and saw. These notes appeared in 1926 as a chapter in the editorial staff of the Patriots in Schlier's first work, Petra's notes, or Concept of a Youth According to the Dictation of Time . The Völkischer Beobachter gave a devastating review of this book. Apart from that, the reactions were consistently positive, some even enthusiastic. In her book, Schlier describes the lives of young women of her time: as nurses in the war hospital in 1916, as stenotypists between hope and hunger after 1918, as victims of hyperinflation and political radicalization in Bavaria in 1923.

The author's spiritual and ethical quest is already clear in Petra's notes . Under the influence of Ludwig Ficker , editor of the magazine Der Brenner and publisher of the Brenner publishing house , Schlier's writing style changed and she turned to Catholicism . Schlier converted in Innsbruck in 1932 .

One consequence of Schlier's clear stance against National Socialism - she did not change her political stance even after her conversion to Catholicism in 1932 - was her arrest by the Gestapo in 1942. A psychiatric stay saved her from the Dachau concentration camp . Schlier was able to escape from the Eglfing-Haar psychiatric hospital and hide until the end of the war. After 1945 her imprisonment was confirmed and she won a trial against the Bavarian state for compensation. Since 1948 she lived in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg. In 1959 she married the retired officer Karl Roßmann. After his death, Schlier moved to Bad Heilbrunn , where she died in 1977.

Paula Schlier's estate is kept in the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck .

In 2018, her first work, Petra's Recordings or Concept of a Youth According to the Dictation of Time, was reissued.

Works

  • Petra's record or concept of youth as dictated by time. Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1926.
  • Chorónoz. A book of reality in dreams. Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich 1928.
  • Legend of the apocalypse. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1949.
  • The human heart. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1953.
  • The angel of the desert. Novel. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1974.
  • The last world night. Visions of the Apocalypse. 2nd edition, Miriam-Verlag, Jestetten 1976, ISBN 3874490955 .
  • Petra's record or concept of youth as dictated by time. Edited, commented on and with an afterword by Annette Steinsiek and Ursula A. Schneider on behalf of the Brenner Archive Research Institute. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-7013-1256-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider: On my own body (afterword). In: Paula Schlier: Petra's records or concept of a youth according to the dictates of time . Ed .: Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2018, p. 150-193 .
  2. ↑ Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider: Bibliography Paula Schlier. In: Online materials on Paula Schlier: Petra's records or concept of a youth after the dictates of time. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ursula A. Schneider: Voluntary nurse in the First World War. Paula Schlier, 1918, Ingolstadt military hospital. In: Messages from the Brenner Archive 33/2014, pp. 81–89. 2014, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Full text of the article by Paula Schlier in 1923. In: Research Institute Brenner Archive, materials online on Paula Schlier: Petra's records or concept of a youth after the dictates of time (2018 edition). March 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Paula Schlier: Petra's notes or concept of a youth according to the dictates of time . Ed .: Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2018, p. 70 .
  6. ↑ Paula Schlier: Petra's notes or concept of a youth according to the dictates of time . Brenner publishing house, Innsbruck 1926.
  7. ↑ Reviews on Paula Schlier: Petras Aufzüge, 1926. In: Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv, materials online on Paula Schlier: Petras Aufzüge or concept of a youth after the dictation of time (edition 2018). March 20, 2018, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  8. ^ Paula Schlier: The hospital (excerpt). In: Petra's notes. Concept of a youth according to the dictates of time (2018 edition). May 10, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ursula A. Schneider: The "female ingenium". Ludwig Ficker's aesthetic concept of the twenties and thirties. In: Messages from the Brenner Archive 14/1995, pp. 78–100. In: Research Institute Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck. 1995, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ Paula Schlier: Gestapo internment. In: Digital Brenner Archive. May 1993, Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  11. ^ Paula Schlier: Gestapo internment. In: Digital Brenner Archive. May 1993, Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider: An own body (afterword). In: Paula Schlier: Petra's records or concept of a youth according to the dictates of time . Ed .: Annette Steinsiek, Ursula A. Schneider. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2018, p. 177 .
  13. ↑ Annamaria Foppa: Paula Schlier. Attempt a monograph. Innsbruck: phil. Diss. 1986. In: Digital Brenner Archive. 1986, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Paula Schlier's estate directory. In: Research Institute Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Paula Schlier: Paula Schlier: Petras records or concept of a youth after the dictates of time. Edited, commented on and with an afterword by Annette Steinsiek and Ursula A. Schneider on behalf of the Brenner Archive Research Institute . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schlier, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1977
Place of death Bad Heilbrunn