Ruth Tassoni
Ruth Tassoni (born as Ruth Domino December 3, 1908 in Berlin ; died November 14, 1994 in Bergamo ) was a German writer.
Life
Ruth Domino was the daughter of a Prussian civil servant and a Jewish mother. While studying German and history in Vienna , she also worked in the Jewish orphanage for blind children, which Viktor Löwenfeld ran. In 1933, through her marriage to the doctor Fritz Jensen, she also received Austrian citizenship. In 1937 she separated from Jensen. She then worked as a nurse in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. In 1938 she fled to Paris, where she wrote short stories that appeared in various countries, sometimes under the pseudonym Ruth Lenz.
In the 1940s she worked as a German teacher in the USA, in 1950 she married the Italian professor Mario Tassoni and moved with him to Bergamo. There she then worked as an editor for the Mondadori publishing house .
Your estate is in Bergamo.
literature
- Giorgio Mangini, ed .: Una voce della literatura europea: Ruth Domino Tassoni, 1908–1994. Atti della giornata di studi, Centro Studi e Ricerche Archivio Bergamasco, Bergamo 2013 ISBN 978-88-96126-08-0
- Martin Dreyfus: Domino-Tassoni, Ruth. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 495-497.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ruth Tassoni in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on literaturepochen.at
notes
- ↑ Conference on November 10, 2012 in the Sala Tassiana, biblioteca May. 94 pages. Contributions by Irmgard Lindemann , Gunnhild Schneider, Ester Schoefberger and the editors - With photos, including RT with Jean Amery , Elias Canetti . With some poems by RT Other RT's interlocutors: Günther Anders , Anna Seghers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tassoni, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Domino, Ruth (maiden name); Jensen, Ruth; Lenz, Ruth (pseudonym); Jerusalem, Ruth (pseudonym); Domino Tassoni, Ruth (author name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1994 |
| Place of death | Bergamo |