Trude Krakauer
Trude Krakauer , née Gertrude Keller, (born May 30, 1902 in Vienna , † December 25, 1995 in Bogotá ) was an Austrian translator and writer.
She emigrated to Bogotá in 1938 and translated Latin American authors into German. Her own poems and prose remained largely unpublished.
Life
Gertrud Krakauer was the daughter of the pediatrician Heinrich Keller , social democratic district councilor and novelist, and his wife Nelly, nee. Winter. Her father converted to Protestantism under the influence of the philosophy of Moses Mendelssohn . Gertrud Krakauer grew up in an anti-clerical free-spirited literary atmosphere and took an early interest in literature. After attending primary school on Karlsplatz for three years , she switched to grammar school in Albertgasse , attended the social welfare school in Vienna in 1920, but did not graduate. She then studied medicine, but switched to political science after four semesters. Her teachers were, among others, Othmar Spann and Hans Kelsen . She submitted her dissertation to Max Adler .
From 1934 until the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, she worked illegally for the Communist Party , then became unemployed and converted to Judaism as a confession to the persecuted. She was able to leave the country and found refuge in Colombia .
In 2009, the Trude-Krakauer-Weg was named after her in Vienna's Danube city .
Works
- Never Netherlands . Poems. Theodor Kramer Society, Vienna, 2013 ISBN 978-3-901602-49-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Trude Krakauer. In: literaturepochen.at. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krakauer, Trude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krakauer, Gertrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1995 |
| Place of death | Bogotá , Colombia |