Ruth Landshoff

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Ruth Landshoff (also Ruth Landshoff-Yorck ; born January 7, 1904 in Schöneberg as Ruth Levy ; † January 19, 1966 in New York ) was a German-American actress and writer .

Life

Ruth Landshoff came from the Jewish bourgeoisie; she was the daughter of the engineer Edmund Levy and the opera singer Else Landshoff-Levy and the niece of the publisher Samuel Fischer . Her cousin is the later exile publisher Fritz Landshoff . She was born in her parents' apartment at Würzburger Strasse 1 in Schöneberg (today Würzburger Strasse 2-4, part of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district) and grew up with two brothers in Berlin-Karlshorst. She was portrayed early on by Oskar Kokoschka . She attended drama school, took part in Murnau's Nosferatu, a symphony of horror from 1922, and appeared in the theater (among others in the Max Reinhardts ensemble ). In 1924 she met the writer Karl Gustav Vollmoeller , with whom she had a liaison until 1930. Vollmoeller made Ruth Landshoff his literary administrator in his will in 1948. She also had an amorous relationship with Francesco von Mendelssohn . She was friends with Doris von Schönthan, among others . She married David Yorck von Wartenburg in 1930 and divorced in 1937.

After publications in magazines such as Die Dame , cross-section or Tempo , her first novel, The Many and the One, was published by Rowohlt in 1930 . Her second novel, The Life of a Dancer, was no longer allowed to appear in Germany. In 1933 she emigrated to France, then to England, Switzerland and in 1937 to the USA. After the Second World War, she went to Germany on lecture tours and criticized the German attitude towards the Nazi past. Until her unexpected death in January 1966, she lived as a publicist, translator and playwright in New York. The estate is in Boston University. Since 2001 her work has been published again by AvivA Verlag Berlin.

Works

  • The defensive girl . Poems (private print) 1929
  • The many and the one . Novel. Ernst Rowohlt, Berlin 1930. 240 pp. (New edition: Aviva, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-932338-14-6 )
  • Anonymous (Ruth York, DS Jennings, D. Malcolmson): The man who killed Hitler . Laurie, London 1939; see also the following editions:
    • (Ruth York, DS Jennings, D. Malcolmson): The man who killed Hitler . GP Putnam, Hollywood 1939. 96 pp.
    • (Ruth Landshoff-York, DS Jennings, D. Malcolmson): L'Homme qui a tué Hitler . Les Editions de France, Paris 1939. 112 pp
    • Excerpts from translations with commentary in: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Karl Otten, Philipp Keller and others. Literature between Wilhelminism and the post-war period . (Eds.) Gregor Ackermann, Walter Fähnders, Werner Jung . Weisler, Berlin 2003. (also: JUNE, issue 35/36) ISBN 3-89693-235-7 ; ISSN  0931-2854
  • Sixty to go . Novel. 2. print. Messner, New York, NY 1944. 215 pp. (German first edition: Sixty to Go. Novel from Resistance on the Riviera . Edited, translated and with an afterword by Doris Hermanns. AvivA, Berlin 2014, 256 pp. ISBN 978-3- 932338-63-2 )
  • Lili Marlene, an intimate diary . Novel. 2. print. The Readers Press, New York, NY 1945.
  • So cold the night . Novel. Harper, New York, NY 1948.
  • The monster tenderness . Collection of stories. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt 1952.
  • Gossip, fame and small fires . Biographical impressions. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1963.
  • The girl with little horsepower. Features from the twenties. Ed. And with an afterword by Walter Fähnders. AvivA Verlag, Berlin 2015; ISBN 978-3-932338-81-6

Works from the estate

  • Novel of a Dancer (ca.1933). First edition from the estate (Ed.) Walter Fähnders. Aviva, Berlin 2002, 2nd revised. Edition 2005, ISBN 3-932338-15-4 .
  • Collection with texts by and about Ruth Landshoff in: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Karl Otten, Philipp Keller and others. Literature between Wilhelminism and the post-war period . (Eds.) Gregor Ackermann, Walter Fähnders, Werner Jung. Weidler, Berlin 2003 (also: JUNE, issue 35/36, year 2002) ISBN 3-89693-235-7 ; ISSN  0931-2854 .
  • The treasure hunters of Venice . Roman (ca.1932). First edition from the estate (Ed.) Walter Fähnders. Aviva, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-932338-15-4 ; New edition 2013: ISBN 978-3-932338-56-4 .
  • In the depths of hell . Novel. (around 1960). First edition from the estate (Ed.) Walter Fähnders. Aviva, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-932338-44-1 .

Filmography

theatre

  • Participation in Carl Sternheim's play The School of Uznach (1927)

Literature (descending)

  • Dinah Rose Lensing-Sharp: Sensational internationals. Gender, Sexuality, and Foreignness in Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's "The Many and the One". Master Thesis, Northampton 2016. (English)
  • Rolf Löchel: An eventful life and a diverse oeuvre. Article from September 30, 2015, review forum for literature and for cultural studies literaturkritik.de , accessed on January 4, 2020 (three reviews)
  • Diana Mantel: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck - Writing Persephone between Berlin bohemian and New York underground. Analyzes of the complete works. Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-64495-9 .
  • Walter Fähnders: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck in the German literature business before 1933 and after 1945. In: Brigitte E. Jirku, Marion Schulz (Ed.): Fiktionen und Realitäten. Women writers in the German-language literature business (= INTER-LIT 14). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63546-9 , pp. 179-204.
  • Anke Hertling: Conquering the male domain of the automobile. Self-propelled Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Erika Mann and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-941-5 .
  • Diana Mantel: Bilingualism as a dichotomy - bilingualism and multilingualism in the work of Ruth Landshoff-Yorck as an experiment, problem and propaganda. In: Conceiçã Cunha, Daniel Graziadei u. a. (Ed.): Talking about borders - multilingualism in Europe and the world. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8260-4753-4 ; ISSN  1613-1878 , pp. 235-251.
  • Walter Fähnders: Bibliography of the works of Ruth Landshoff-Yorck until 1933. In: Gregor Ackermann and Walter Delabar (eds.): Writing women. A diagram in the early 20th century (= JUNE. Magazine for literature and culture. Issue 45/46). Aisthesis publishing house, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89528-857-9 , pp. 213-222.
  • Diana Mantel: Carnival and Carnivorous Plants - Gender and Humor in the Works of Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: Beate Neumeier (Ed.): Gender Forum, An Internet Hournal for Gender Studies (= Issue 35). University of Cologne, Cologne 2011, pp. 12–31, PDF, English , accessed on January 4, 2020.
  • Frederik D. Tunnat: Karl Vollmoeller. Poet and cultural manager. A biography. Tredition publishing house, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86850-000-4 . (here in detail about the relationship with Vollmoeller)
  • Walter Fähnders: In Venice and elsewhere. Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: Petra Josting, Walter Fähnders (Eds.): “Laboratory Versatility”. On the literature of the Weimar Republic. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89528-546-3 , pp. 227-252.
  • Walter Fähnders: About two novels that were not allowed to appear in 1933. Mela Hartwig's “Am I a superfluous person?” And Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's “Novel of a Dancer”. In: Axel E. Walter (Ed.): Regional cultural space and intellectual communication from humanism to the age of the Internet. Rodopi Verlag, Amsterdam and New York 2004, ISBN 90-420-1715-5 , pp. 161-190.
  • Helga Karrenbrock: The old and the new. On Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's novel 'The Treasure Hunters of Venice'. In: Gregor Ackermann, Walter Fähnders, Werner Jung (eds.): Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, Karl Otten, Philipp Keller and others. Literature between Wilhelminism and the post-war period. Verlag Weidler, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89693-235-7 ; ISSN  0931-2854 , pp. 285-293.
  • Sabine Rohlf: Between the scent of petrol and musk. A book is back: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's “Roman einer Tänzerin” was published in Berlin 70 years late. In: Berliner Zeitung of January 27, 2003, p. 13.
  • Barbara Drescher: Change in the narrative perspective as an expression of cultural alienation in the post-war prose of Irmgard Keun, Dinah Nelken and Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: Christiane Caemmerer, Walter Delabar u. a. (Ed.): Experience after the war. Authors in the literature business 1945–1950. FRG, GDR, Austria, Switzerland. Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-631-38961-2 , pp. 127-139.
  • Heribert Kuhn: Play with speed. A real find: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's smooth “novel of a dancer”. In: Literature supplement to the Frankfurter Rundschau of October 9, 2002, p. 4.
  • Christine Pendl: The bilingual conflict. Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's political exile work. In: Julia Schöll (Ed.): Gender - Exile - Writing. Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-8260-2360-6 , pp. 91-105.
  • Walter Delabar: The one and her first. In: Walter Delabar u. Carsten Würmann (Hrsg.): Literature on use: Hollaender and others. Contributions to a cultural history of the Weimar Republic (= JUNE. H. 33/34). Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89693-182-2 , pp. 260-261.
  • Christiane Merkel: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: John M. Spalek u. a. (Ed.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Vol. 3: USA / Part 1, Verlag de Gruyter Saur, Bern and Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-908255-16-1 , pp. 313–322. (with bibliography)
  • Claudia Schoppmann: Portrait of Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: Claudia Schoppmann: The language in flight luggage. German-speaking women writers in exile. Orlanda-Frauenverlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-922166-78-8 , pp. 63-69. (again: Frankfurt am Main 1995)
  • Renate Wall: Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. In: Renate Wall: German-speaking women writers in exile 1933–1945. Volume 1, Verlag Kore, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-926023-48-3 , pp. 210-212.
  • Georg Zivier: The Romanesque Café. Apparitions and marginal phenomena around the Memorial Church. Haude & Spener Verlag, Berlin 1965, pp. 78-80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth certificate StA Schöneberg I No. 94/04 .
  2. ↑ Ruth Yorck: gossip, fame and small fire - biographical impressions. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1963, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Liliane Studer: A look into the modern 1920s. About Ruth Landshoff-Yorck's entertaining novel “The Treasure Seekers of Venice” , literaturkritik.de, accessed on December 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Landshoff, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Ruth (maiden name); Landshoff, Rut; Landshoff-Yorck, Ruth; Yorck, Ruth L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1966
Place of death new York