Rosa von Waldeck

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Rosa Gräfin von Waldeck , also Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck or Rosie Gräfin Waldeck , née Rosa Goldschmidt (born July 24, 1898 in Mannheim , † August 8, 1982 in New York City ), was a German-American countess, writer and journalist .

Life

Rosa Countess von Waldeck was born as Rosa Goldschmidt in Mannheim in 1898. Her father was one of the founders of the Mannheim banking house "Marx und Goldschmidt." Rosa attended the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Mannheim , which had already introduced coeducation. Here, as one of the few female students, she graduated from high school in 1917 and then studied art history in Munich, but moved to Heidelberg in 1919 , where she turned to social sciences with Alfred and Max Weber . She did her doctorate with Alfred Weber in the sociology of theater and received the rating “summa cum laude.” The doctorate also received an award for the best doctoral thesis of the summer semester 1920. Alfred Weber would have liked to keep Rosa Goldschmidt as a member of his institute, but she moved to Berlin , where she completed a bank voluntary service so that she could take over her father's bank. In Berlin she married the well-known Berlin gynecologist Ernst Graefenberg . In 1925 this marriage was divorced again. Rosa Goldschmidt then moved to Paris and began to write articles for a German newspaper. As a travel writer in the Soviet Union and West Africa, she celebrated her first successes. She was able to successfully publish these travel reports at Ullstein-Verlag . Rosa Goldschmidt married the 63-year-old widowed Franz Ullstein, but the family did not accept the marriage and they divorced again. Rosa Goldschmidt received a generous severance payment after the divorce.

In 1931 Rosa Goldschmidt left Europe for New York City. She also converted from Judaism to Catholicism. In New York, after her expatriation from Germany by the National Socialists , she married the Hungarian Count Armin von Waldeck, who was eleven years her junior. After the outbreak of war, she became a war journalist. In 1940 she reported in the American magazine Newsweek from Romania , where she lived in a hotel in Bucharest, about the situation in the Balkans. The book Athene Palace emerged from the reports in 1942 .

Other novels followed such as Luster in the Sky , Venus am Abendhimmel or The Emperor's Duchess . In 1951, Waldeck published her last political book, Europe between the Acts . In this book she reported on her journey through the destroyed post-war Europe. However, this book was unsuccessful and Rosa von Waldeck was forgotten. She died lonely on August 8, 1982 in her adopted US home.

Publications

  • Prelude to the past. The Autobiography of a Woman (William Morrow, New York 1934).
  • Athene Palace (Robert M. McBride and Company, New York 1942)
  • Luster In The Sky (1946)
  • The Emperor's Duchess (1948)
  • Europe Between The Acts (1951)
  • Venus in the evening sky. Talleyrand's Last Love (from the American by Maria Wolff) (Rowohlt 1966)

literature

  • Wilhelm Kreutz: Rosie G. Waldeck - a political journalist and writer forgotten in her homeland , in: Hermann Wiegand / Wilhelm Kreutz (ed.): 200 years of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim, Heidelberg et al. 2008, p. 251 -260.
  • The dazzling life of Rosie Countess Waldeck. Heidelberg alumna conquered the USA as a journalist and writer , in: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Ed.): HAIlife, Heidelberg Alumni International, Magazin 2012, pp. 18 + 19.

Individual evidence

  1. Secret Memorandum OSS: Subject (Countess) Rosie Waldeck , (approved for release: June 2000), accessed on February 9, 2017.

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