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Rosa Walk (born April 30, 1893 as Rosa Cilcer in Marmaroschsiget , Austria-Hungary , † probably 1942 in Paris , France ) was an Austrian psychoanalyst .

Life

Rosa Walk was born as Rosa Cilcer on April 30, 1893 into a Jewish family in the town of Marmaroschsiget (now Sighetu Marma iniei in Romania ), which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary . After graduating from the Budapest Girls' High School in the 4th district of Belváros in Budapest in December 1919, she began studying medicine at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and received her doctorate in 1928 after moving to the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna in 1924. She married before graduating On November 5, 1927, the Viennese merchant and private civil servant Anton Johann Walk in the Protestant parish in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten , whereupon she converted to the Protestant faith. The couple later separated again; A few years later, Anton Johann Walk was declared dead after he was considered missing in Shanghai .

She received her psychoanalytic training at the training institute of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (WPV) from the American Ruth Brunswick and from Edward Bibring . From 1933 to 1938 she was an extraordinary member of the WPV and in 1934 she also worked as a psychoanalyst in her own practice in the 4th district of Vienna, Wieden . After the annexation of Austria , Walk initially wanted to emigrate to the United States, but this failed because the Emergency Committee on Relief and Immigration, established by the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), could not secure the necessary exit documents for her to immigrate to the United States . After she had fled to Paris via southern France in the meantime , she presumably committed suicide in 1942 by jumping a window to avoid being deported by the Gestapo . To this day, however, this is not entirely certain, as there is also a deportation list on which Walks' deportation with convoy No. 27 from Drancy on September 2, 1942 to the Auschwitz concentration camp is noted.

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 3444.
• Elke Mühlleitner: Walk, Rosa. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 780–785.

Web links

• Rosa Walk on psyalpha.net, the knowledge platform for psychoanalysis