Rosa Silberer

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Rosa Silberer , born Miriam Rose Silberer (born January 4, 1873 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 23, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ), was an Austrian sculptor and journalist.

Life

Rosa Silberer was the daughter of the dentist Salomon Silberer (1842–1922) and Angela Silberer, b. Beer (1856-1943); a younger brother was the journalist Geza Silberer ("Sil-Vara") (1876-1938).

Silberer studied with the sculptor Rudolf Weyr and attended a course with the anatomist Julius Tandler . From 1902 Silberer was invited to exhibitions in Vienna with her sculptural works. a. at the Hagenbund . Between 1905 and 1914 she stayed in Paris, where she also exhibited. She traveled to Sicily, Florence and Rome, where she took part in the 1914 International Art Exhibition of the Secession. She worked in stone, marble and bronze. Her sculptures were symbolic and mythological. The sculpture sunrise was owned by the Vienna Women's Club. She created tombs for the Döblinger cemetery .

After the First World War, she had to give up sculpture for economic reasons and became a journalist. Freelance she wrote feature sections and literary reviews in the Neue Freie Presse and also dealt with questions about the position of women in society and in art in other newspapers. In 1919 Alfred Szendrei set her opera libretto The Turquoise Garden to music ; the opera was premiered in 1920 at the Leipzig Opera. In the volume of essays Voices in the Desert , she dealt with the theories of Josef Popper . She edited a volume of poems by Hans Christian Andersen . She was a member of the Association of Writers and Artists Vienna (VSKW) and the PEN Club .

Silberer was deported from Vienna to the Theresienstadt ghetto on August 28, 1942 with Transport IV / 9 . A month later, she committed suicide using unknown poison . Her mother Angela died in February 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Her brother Siegfried was deported from France to Auschwitz in 1943. Her brother Marcel, born in 1884, was deported to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp in 1942. Her sister Paula, born in 1892, married Silten, was a victim of the Holocaust in 1942.

Works (selection)

  • Aladár Szendrei, Rose Silberer: The turquoise garden: a game of love and death in one act . Vienna: Universal Edition, 1919
  • To a bellboy. Letters from Rome . Vienna: Viennese literary institution, 1920.
  • Voices in the desert . Vienna: Viennese literary institution, 1920
  • Veiled female face . Vienna: Carl Konegen, 1924
  • Austria. Character study of a country . Vienna: Steryrermühl, 1929

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Rosa Silberer  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Rosa Silberer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Steinitzer : Review, in: Musikblätter des Anbruch , Heft 4, 1920
  2. ^ Julie M. Johnson: The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 . West Lafayette, Ind .: Purdue Univ. Press, 2012. Brief CV on p. 393.
  3. ^ Transport IV / 9 , at holocaust.cz
  4. ↑ Rosa S. Silberer , notice of death at holocaust.cz
  5. ^ Angela Silberer , obituary report at holocaust.cz
  6. ^ Siegfried Silberer , 1878–1943, at USHMM
personal data
SURNAME Silver, pink
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silberer, Miriam Rose (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1942
Place of death Theresienstadt ghetto