Sabine Leibholz

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Sabine Leibholz , née Sabine Bonhoeffer , after her marriage possibly Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer (born February 4, 1906 in Breslau ; † July 7, 1999 in Göttingen ) was a German author and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's twin sister . The resistance fighter Klaus Bonhoeffer was one of her older brothers; like other members of the family, he belonged to the group of persons of July 20, 1944 .

Life

Bust of her twin brother Dietrich Bonhoeffer created by Sabine Leibholz

Sabine Leibholz married the lawyer Gerhard Leibholz on April 6, 1926 and went with him to Greifswald in 1929 and then to Göttingen in 1931. After her husband retired in 1935 due to his Jewish origins, they emigrated to Oxford in Great Britain with their two daughters Marianne and Christiane in 1938 , where her husband was first interned - like many Jewish exiles at the time. In 1947 they returned to Göttingen.

Your book past - experienced - overcome is not only important as a description of the "fate of the Bonhoeffer family ", as the subtitle indicates, but also as an unadorned portrayal of the fate of privileged emigrants. It shows very clearly the fact, which has been forgotten today, that German Jews were interned in Great Britain at the beginning of the Second World War . And if it's in the poem exile is Marianne Leibholz daughter: "Will never still time home find / He guessed it, grateful and his heart is light" (p 174), so what is it pronounced completely unsentimental, emigration also meant for the second generation.

After the death of her husband, Sabine Leibholz continued to live in the family home on Herzberger Landstrasse in Göttingen, until her own death in 1999 with her daughter Marianne. She died on January 30, 2017. From the estate of Sabine Leibholz there are some busts of her brother that she created and which she designed in different materials.

Fonts

  • past - experienced - overcome. Fate of the Bonhoeffer family. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1983, ISBN 3-579-03961-X .
  • Christmas in the Bonhoeffer house. Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-01545-1 .
  • Marianne Leibholz: World, War and God. Early poems 1934–1954. epubli 2014 ( online edition ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the collection of poems by Marianne Leibholz, www.marianne-leibholz.de.
  2. ^ Obituary notice for Marianne Leibholz in the Göttinger Tageblatt of February 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Leibholz, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonhoeffer, Sabine (maiden name); Leibholz-Bonhoeffer, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's twin sister
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1999
Place of death Goettingen