Pauline Krautz

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Pauline Krautz ( Lower Sorbian Pawlina Krawcowa ; nee Rehnus or Lower Sorbian Pawlina Renusojc ; * December 18, 1890 in Dahlitz ; † September 16, 1941 near Kolkwitz ) was a Sorbian entrepreneur.

Pauline Rehnus was the oldest of five children in a Sorbian carpenter family. Since the family lived in poor conditions, Pauline looked for work in a Cottbus cloth factory after attending primary school. In 1920 she married the cloth maker Reinhold Krautz and was now able to start an apprenticeship as a tailor, which she completed with a master craftsman examination.

In 1926 Pauline Krautz opened a shop for Wendish traditional costumes , art and flag embroidery in Cottbus . As the traditional costumes were selling less and less, she began producing costume dolls. The demand was great and she presented her dolls at exhibitions in Berlin , Dresden , Saarbrücken and Prague . In 1936 she sent a large number of costume dolls to the Olympic Games in Berlin .

When the Nazis began renaming Sorbian place and street names, Pauline Krautz protested publicly, was arrested and convicted of "insidious attacks on the state and the party". She spent several months in prison in Cottbus, after which she had to give up her business and returned to her parents' house in Kolkwitz, terminally ill. There she died at the age of 50. Her request for a sermon in Sorbian at her funeral was not granted.

In front of Pauline Krautz's former residential and commercial building on Sandower Strasse in Cottbus, a “ stumbling block ” reminds of her today .

literature

  • Andreas von Klewitz: Barbie in Sorbian . In: Brandenburger Blätter No. 233 of December 24, 2013, p. 12.
  • Martina Noack: Pawlina Krawcowa or Pauline Krautz. In: Witch Lady Queen: Women of Niederlausitz in the time arc of a millennium. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2003, ISBN 3-936092-72-9 , pp. 93-95.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Spomnjeśe na Pawlinu Krawcoweju k 120. narodnemu dnju. (No longer available online.) Www.cottbus.de, November 17, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 15, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cottbus.de   Commemoration of Pauline Krautz on her 120th birthday. (No longer available online.) Www.kultur-cottbus.de, December 18, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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personal data
SURNAME Krautz, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavlina Renusojc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahlitz
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1941
Place of death Kolkwitz