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).; accessed on April 13, 2019

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
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

[S._279-1] Hermann Weber, Gerda Weber: Life according to the “left principle”. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-405-1 , p. 279.

[Sturz-2] 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 .