Ruth Hoffmann

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Ruth Grete Bertha Pauline Hoffmann (married Ruth Scheye ; born July 19, 1893 in Breslau ; † May 10, 1974 in West Berlin ) was a German writer and painter .

Life

Ruth Hoffmann was born in 1893 as the daughter of the businessman Ludwig Hoffmann and his wife Margarethe. She attended the women's school in Weimar and then trained as a graphic designer and painter at the Breslau Art Academy . As early as 1925 her work, u. a. a poster for Star oat flakes, in the journal Applied Graphics printed. Her designs have received multiple awards.

On May 15, 1929, she married the Berlin bank manager Erich Scheye in Breslau and moved to live with him in the capital. Shortly after the publication of her first work Pauline from Kreuzburg she was banned from writing and publishing because her husband was Jewish. In 1938 she stayed in the USA for the first time. She repeatedly fought for a reunion with her husband, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, but was unable to prevent his murder in Auschwitz in 1943. Her other publications, mostly on the subject of Jewish fate and exile, appeared from 1946 onwards. The books deal in particular with the subjects of Silesia and Wroclaw.

Works

  • Pauline from Kreuzburg. Novel. List Verlag, Leipzig, 1935
  • Dark Angel. Poems. List Verlag, Leipzig, 1946
  • The golden rope. Poems. List Verlag, Leipzig, 1946
  • Franziska Lauterbach. Novel. List Verlag, Munich, Leipzig, 1947
  • My friends of David's line. Memories. Chronos Verlag, Berlin, 1947
  • Transplanted into strange summer beds. Memories. Chronos Verlag, Berlin, 1948
  • The rich valley. Acting 1949
  • The lost shoe. A story of living, dying and loving. Novel. Gustav Spielberg Publishing House, Berlin, 1949
  • The time spindle stories, 1949.
  • The Silesian Mercy. Novel. Kiepenheuer Verlag, Cologne, Berlin, 1950
  • Abersee or The Miracles of Refuge. Novel. Publishing house Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1953
  • Children's book trilogy Poosie:
    • Poosie from Washington. Dressler Verlag, Berlin, 1953
    • Poosie in Europe. Dressler Verlag, Berlin, 1954
    • Poosie celebrates reunion. Dressler Verlag, Berlin, 1956 (from 1963 under a new title: Poosie discovers America. )
  • The twin way. Summer diary, poems and prose. Lettner Verlag, Berlin, 1954
  • I came to Johnny Giovanni. Novel. Lettner Verlag, Berlin, 1954
  • Twelve Christmas stories from afar and near. Stories. Lettner Verlag, Berlin, 1954
  • The dancing sun. Stories. Lettner Verlag, Berlin, 1956
  • The wolf and the bustard. Novel. Steinkopf Verlag, Stuttgart, 1963
  • The Moor and the Star. Narrative. Steinkopf Verlag, Stuttgart, 1966
  • The houses I lived in. Memories. Steinkopf Verlag, Stuttgart, 1969
  • A lover. Novel. Steinkopf Verlag, Stuttgart, 1971

Honors

literature

  • Nutzgraphik , Vol. 1, H. 9, 1925, p. 28ff
  • Alfred Kantorowicz , Richard Drews: "Forbidden and burned" - German literature suppressed for 12 years , Ullstein / Kindler, Berlin / Munich, 1947, p. 76
  • Breuer, Gerda, Meer, Julia (eds.): Women in Graphic Design , Jovis / Berlin, 2012, p. 477, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wroclaw II registry office : birth register . No. 2704/1893.
  2. ↑ Nutzgraphik , Vol. 1, H. 9, 1925, p. 28ff.
  3. ^ Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 136.
  4. ^ Registry office Breslau II: marriage register . No. 402/1929.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheye, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1974
Place of death West Berlin