Rahel Sanzara

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Rahel Sanzara, ca.1926

Rahel Sanzara (also Sansara ; pseudonym for Johanna Bleschke ) (born February 9, 1894 in Jena , † February 8, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German dancer , actress and writer .

Life

Johanna Bleschke alias Rahel Sanzara was the oldest of four children of a town musician. She attended a secondary school for girls followed by a business school year. In 1912 she was sent to Blankenburg in the Harz Mountains to do a bookbinding apprenticeship. In 1913 she went to Berlin, where she met the doctor and writer Ernst Weiß , with whom she remained connected (with interruptions) for over twenty years. After a quick training as a nurse and corresponding work in 1914/15, she trained as a dancer with Rita Sacchetto and had some appearances in dance pantomimes. After her film debut in 1916 (in "Der Fall Routt ..!"), She completed an acting training with Otto Falckenberg in Munich, which was followed by an appearance in Ernst Weiß 'drama Tanja in Prague. From 1921 she was engaged at the Hessian State Theater in Darmstadt . In 1924 she retired from the theater.

Her first novel The Lost Child appeared as a preprint in the Vossische Zeitung and as a book in 1926 and caused a sensation because of the sensitive topic of the sexual murder of a four-year-old. It achieved several editions in a short time and was translated into eleven languages. In 1926 she was supposed to be awarded the Kleist Prize for this, but she refused. This heated up existing allegations of plagiarism , according to which the book was written by Ernst Weiß and the story was borrowed from the New Pitaval . Her further literary work was unsuccessful. In 1927 she married the Jewish stockbroker Walter Davidsohn. During the Nazi regime he emigrated to France, she stayed in Berlin and died there in 1936 after a long illness.

Her grave is on the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf .

Works

  • The lost child. Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 1926 (9th edition. With an afterword by Peter Engel. (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 910). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-37410-9 ).
  • The lucky hand. Novel. In: Vossische Zeitung , March 1933 (book edition: Humanitas, Zurich 1936. New edition: (= Library of Thuringian Classics. Vol. 1). Salier, Leipzig et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-939611-51-6 ).
  • Wedding of the poor. Novel, unpublished and lost

Filmography

literature

  • Diana Orendi-Hinze: Rahel Sanzara. A biography (= Fischer 2258). Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-22258-3 .
  • Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , pp. 96-98.
  • Gottfried Benn : PLAGIAT. To: Rahel Sanzara, The lost child. In: Collected works in eight volumes. Edited by Dieter Wellershoff . Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1968, Volume 7, pp. 1646-1648.

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personal data
SURNAME Sanzara, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sansara, Rachel; Bleschke, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1936
Place of death Berlin , German Empire