Rosa Meyer-Leviné
Rosa Meyer-Leviné, born Broido (born May 18, 1890 in Gródek near Białystok , † November 11, 1979 in London ) was a Russian- born German - English writer . She was married to the communist politicians Eugen Leviné and Ernst Meyer .
Life
Rosa Broido was born in Russia as the twelfth child of a rabbi . Before the outbreak of the First World War , she settled in the German Empire . In the spring of 1910 Broido met the Russian revolutionary Eugen Leviné in Heidelberg , she married him in May 1915. Leviné was executed in June 1919 in Munich as a leading member of the Munich Soviet Republic . She had to watch this execution, but she did not see her husband's death due to a faint . In 1922 Leviné married the politician of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) Ernst Meyer . After Ernst Meyer's death in 1930, Meyer-Leviné moved to the Soviet Union , but left it again on January 26, 1933, as she did not feel comfortable in the Stalinist system. Shortly afterwards, after the appointment of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor , Meyer Leviné had to go into exile to London, where she lived until her death. In the 1960s, Meyer-Leviné also stayed in Heidelberg for a time.
Fonts
- Original works
- From the time of the Munich council. Association of International Publishing Institutions, Berlin 1925.
- Levine: the life of a revolutionary. Introduction by Eric Hobsbawm , Saxon House, Farnborough 1973, ISBN 0-347-00004-5 .
- Inside German Communism, Memoirs of Party Life in the Weimar Republic. Editor and introduction David Zane Mairowitz, Pluto Press, London 1977, ISBN 0-904383-34-2 .
- German language translations
- Leviné: Life and Death of a Revolutionary, Memories. Hanser, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-446-11624-9 . (Translated by Klaus Budzinski.)
- In the inner circle: memories of a communist in Germany 1920–1930. Edited and introduced by Hermann Weber , Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-462-01322-X . (Revised edition, translated by Barbara Bortfeldt.)
literature
- Hermann Weber , Gerda Weber: Living according to the “left principle”. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-405-1 ; Pp. 279-282.
- Hermann Weber: Meyer-Leviné, Rosa. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 323 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Markus Bitterolf: Rosa Meyer-Leviné - Romanticism and Revolution . In: Intellectuals in Heidelberg 1910–1930. A reader. Edited by Markus Bitterolf, Oliver Schlaudt, Stefan Schöbel. edition schöbel, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816366-2-8 ; Pp. 249-261
Web links
- Literature by and about Rosa Meyer-Leviné in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rosa Meyer-Leviné: Germany 1932. In: In the inner circle: Memories of a communist in Germany from 1920-1933. 1982, pp. 226-235 (reproduced on trend.infopartisan.net).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hermann Weber, Gerda Weber: Life according to the “left principle”. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-405-1 , p. 279.
- ^ A b Karl-Heinz Janßen : Memories from the emigration: From the fall into the barbarian. In: The time . May 11, 1979. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Meyer-Leviné, Rosa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Broido, Rosa (maiden name); Leviné, Rosa (name from 1915–1920) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and political activist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1890 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Gródek near Białystok |
DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1979 |
Place of death | London |