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Sophie Templer-Kuh (born November 23, 1916 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 15, 2021 in Berlin ) was a daughter of the psychoanalyst and anarchist Otto Gross and honorary chairwoman of the International Otto Gross Society. V.

Life

Sophie Templer-Kuh was the illegitimate daughter of the psychoanalyst Otto Gross and his lover Marianne Kuh (1894-1948), a sister of the Viennese journalist and coffee house literary writer Anton Kuh , and half-sister of the journalist Michael Stone (Michael Kuh).

From February 1920 to 1924 Sophie Kuh grew up with foster parents in Denmark . When her mother married the writer Alexander Solomonica , she took her daughter to Berlin , where the family lived near the Romanisches Café , where her uncle Anton Kuh also frequented. The child was held to believe that Alexander Solomonica was her father. During her time in Berlin, Sophie Kuh was friends with the older John Graudenz . As early as 1933 the family emigrated to Vienna because of their Jewish descent and to London in 1939 ; their stepfather did not receive a visa and died in 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto . During the Second World War she worked in the British Army. In 1946 Sophie Kuh and Simon Templer married. The couple had two children: daughter Anita (* 1946) and son Anthony (* 1954). In 1960 Sophie Templer-Kuh returned to Germany for the first time - together with her family. After the divorce, she moved to the USA in 1963. In 1985 she returned to Austria and Germany a second time. On May 24, 2011, the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter - Landesverband Brandenburg - awarded Sophie Templer-Kuh honorary membership.

Sophie Templer-Kuh lived in Berlin. She died there in January 2021 at the age of 104.

Quotes

Franz Kafka met Otto Gross on a night train journey from Budapest to Prague in July 1917, who was accompanied by Marianne Kuh, Sophie Kuh as an infant and Anton Kuh. At Milena Jesenská Kafka writes to the editors, the date June 25, 1920 and the place in a letter Meran specify:

“I hardly knew Otto Gross; But I noticed that there was something essential here that at least put my hand out of the 'ridiculous'. The perplexed mood of his friends and relatives (wife, brother-in-law, even the mysteriously silent baby between the travel bags - he shouldn't fall out of bed when he was alone - who drank black coffee, ate fruit, ate everything you wanted) reminded somewhat of the mood of Christ's followers when they stood under the nailed-on. "

In his novel Barbara or the Piety , Franz Werfel describes a scene that is also related to Sophie Kuh as a child:

“But the reason why Ferdinand left this shelter after three days and rented a narrow room somewhere wasn't just the dirt, the overcrowding and the noise - the reason was the child. Yes, the squeaking organism that lay unattended in a laundry basket on the table while the winding paths of eros were discussed next to it was a child. "

Documentary film

Sandra Löhr shot the documentary Die Vatersucherin in 2008 with financial support from the Vienna Film Fund . In a synopsis it says:

“The film shows the 88-year-old Jewess Sophie Templer-Kuh searching for her Austrian father, the anarchist and psychoanalyst Otto Gross. She goes straight to the early years of modernity : the Vienna of the ten and twenties of the last century. The search for her lost (family) history is an émigré's strange view of Europe, who gradually understands how much her father has to do with today's values ​​of a liberal, self-determined and individualistic society. "

On the occasion of the 7th International Otto Gross Congress , the documentary was shown to the congress audience in Dresden on October 3, 2008 - in the presence of the protagonist.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Bröer: Mourning for BDK honorary member Sophie Templer-Kuh. Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, accessed on January 18, 2021 .
  2. ^ Willi Winkler : Obituary. Infant with travel bags. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 18, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021 .
  3. ^ Honorary membership ( memento of October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on BDK.de
  4. ↑ taz of November 17, 2016
  5. ↑ Jürgen Born, Michael Müller (ed.): Franz Kafka: Briefe an Milena. Fischer, Frankfurt 1983, p. 78f. (Note from the Otto Gross Society dated August 28, 2009.)
  6. ^ Franz Werfel: Barbara or piety. Zsolnay, Berlin / Vienna / Leipzig 1929, pp. 466–468. (Note from the Otto Gross Society dated August 28, 2009.)
  7. ↑ Sandra Löhr's father seeker. In: filmfonds-wien.at . Archived from the original on January 18, 2010 ; accessed on January 19, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Templar cow, Sophie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cow, Sophie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German honorary chairman of the International Otto Gross Society
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2021
Place of death Berlin