Thea Graziella

Dorothea "Thea" Graziella Schneidhuber , née Gabriel , pseudonym Horst Wilhelm , Thea Graziella , (born August 3, 1881 in Lyck , East Prussia ; † May 12, 1942 in the killing center in Bernburg an der Saale) was a German writer.

Life and activity

Dorothea Gabriel grew up in Spandau . Around 1905 she married the farmer Schneidhuber, with whom she settled in Bad Tölz . Her brother-in-law, a brother of her husband, was the future police chief of Munich and commander of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Bavaria , August Schneidhuber .

Since 1905, Schneidhuber went public with fiction publications, especially with dramas, poems and novels, mostly using the pseudonym Thea Graziella. From a political point of view, Schneidhuber took a more left-wing stand: With her novel Der Unpatrioten , published during the First World War , to which contemporary reviews ascribed "pacifist tendencies", she clearly set herself apart from the militaristic spirit of the war years. After the war she belonged to the German Democratic Party.

After the National Socialists came to power , Schneidhuber was banned from publishing, presumably because of her Jewish descent; in any case, she no longer published after 1933. The cathedral provost Johannes Neuhäusler , who, at the instigation of Bishop Faulhaber, observed the anti-church agitation of the National Socialists, supported Schneidhuber on Faulhaber's recommendation as a courier in his efforts to obtain evidence of conflicts between National Socialism and the Church abroad, v. a. to create in the Vatican.

In later years, Schneidhuber lived as a partner with the district judge's widow Anna Meyer-Liepmann in the Villa Mignon in Bad Tölz. To avoid persecution because of their Jewish descent, both women traveled back and forth continuously from March 1940. In February 1941 they were finally arrested in Frankfurt. She was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and in May 1942 in the course of Aktion 14f13 , which aimed to eliminate " ballast existences " - i.e. H. Unfit for work (as well as individual workable Jewish) concentration camp prisoners - served, gassed to death.

A surviving photograph from the private registry of the responsible for the decision Schneidhuber to kill concentration camp doctor Friedrich Mennecke contains on the back of the diagnosis that issued Mennecke Schneidhuber, the diagnosis also meant a death sentence:

"Continued to write anti-German inflammatory articles about the ecclesiastical political situation in Germany, which she received from the officer of the Archbishop's Office in Munich."

Today a memorial stone in Markstrasse in Bad Tölz commemorates Schneidhuber

Works

• Goddess woman. Tragedy in five acts , ca.1905.
• Ye Erdenwallen , 1906. (Drama)
• In the mirror of the soul , 1906. (Poems)
• Games of Fate , 1908.
• Goddess Woman , 1913. (Drama)
• The Reich Insurance for Domestic Workers , 1913.
• The unpatriotic , Xenien Verlag, 1916. (novel)
• The girls' shelter in Berlin, the first observation house for young people at risk , 1915.
• Carthage's decline , 1918.
• The Prophetess , 1920. (Drama)
• Saul's daughter , 1923. (novel)
• Carthage's decline. Tragedy in 5 acts , 1924 (under the pseudonym Horst Wilhelm)
• People of yesterday, of tomorrow, of today , Schönigh 1932.
• Wild cat stories. From my little town , Schönigh, 1932.

literature

• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , Vol. 46, 1932, p. 126.
• Ravensbrück National Memorial and Memorial: Memorial book for the victims of the Ravensbrück concentration camp 1939-1945 , 2005, p. 548.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/bad_toelz_juedgeschichte.htm
2. ^ Literarian Centralblatt für Deutschland , Vol. 68, 1917, p. 687.
3. ↑ Thomas Forstner: Priests in Times of Change, Identity and Environment of the Catholic Parish Clergy in Upper Bavaria 1918 to 1945 , Göttingen 2013, p. 72.