Thekla Edenfeld

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Thekla Edenfeld (born May 23, 1871 in Stuttgart ; † in the 20th century ) was a German writer.

Life

Thekla Edenfeld was probably the writer's maiden name and was later used by her as a pseudonym. In Sophie Patakys Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder ( 1898) she is listed as Frau Thekla Levi, as well as in the Literary Yearbook and in other places. This, together with the address at Lange Straße 12 b in Stuttgart, suggests that she was a member of the Jewish Edenfeld-Levi-Dessauer family.

Thekla Edenfeld's book Wedding Poems. Performances and festivals for young and old for green, silver and gold weddings appeared in at least eight editions at the Ernstschen Verlagbuchhandlung. Another work was The Eyes of Medusa .

family

A stumbling block for Martha Edenfeld has been laid at Thekla Edenfeld's former address on Langen Strasse in Stuttgart . She was born in Stuttgart on January 21, 1874, so she could have been a sister of Thekla Edenfeld. She married the antiquarian and art dealer Paul Levi (or Levy) and lived with him at Langen Strasse 12 b, in the same house as Thekla Edenfeld. The couple's art collection included works by Max Ackermann , Hans Molfenter , Reinhold Nägele , Emil Orlik and Hans Purrmann . While Paul Levi died before the National Socialists came to power, Martha Levi had to move into a Jewish house in Cäsar-Fleischlen-Strasse 5 in 1941 and later to buy into the Buttenhausen old people's home for 30,000 Reichsmarks . On August 22, 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt , where she was murdered on September 6, 1942.

Her daughter Emma became a musician and played in the orchestra of Radio Stuttgart until 1933 . On September 20, 1917, she married the lawyer Erich Dessauer, with whom she lived at Uhlandstrasse 21 in Stuttgart. Dessauer had to leave the law firm he ran with Martin Rothschild and Rudolf Hartmann when the law to restore the German civil service came into force, and from 1936 worked as a legal consultant at Kronprinzstrasse 12. The house belonged partly to his wife. Emma Dessauer was sentenced to three weeks in prison in 1942 for not wearing the Jewish star .

Erich Dessauer was arrested on September 3, 1942 and deported to Theresienstadt on June 17, 1943 together with his wife. He was murdered in the gas chamber in Auschwitz on October 16, 1944 . Emma Dessauer survived the time in the concentration camp and returned to Stuttgart in June 1945, where she later opened a bookstore and a newspaper and magazine distributor. She lived until January 27, 1975. She is said to have met only one cousin of her relatives in Stuttgart after the end of the Third Reich , from which one can possibly conclude that Thekla Edenfeld, who was perhaps Dessauer's aunt Emma, ​​also did not survived.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death does not seem to have been determined; see. Elisabeth Friedrichs, The German-Language Writers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Ein Lexikon , Metzler 1981, ISBN 978-3-476-00456-7 , p. 183.
  2. ^ Levi, Mrs. Thekla . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 527 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Literarisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 1, Hoursch & Bechstedt 1903, p. 240
  4. ↑ Gerhard Lüdtke and Erich Neuner, Kürschner's German Literature Calendar for the year 1922 , Leipzig 1922, p. 513
  5. ^ Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels, Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland , 1919, p. 130
  6. ↑ Information on Martha Levi
  7. ↑ Information on Emma and Erich Dessauer
personal data
SURNAME Edenfeld, Thekla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 20th century