Vera Lachmann

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Vera Lachmann

Vera Regine Lachmann (born June 23, 1904 in Berlin ; † January 18, 1985 in New York City ) was a German-American classical philologist and poet.

biography

Vera was born in her parents' property at Tiergartenstrasse 3. Her parents were the architect Louis Lachmann and Caroline geb. Rosenbacher. After graduating from the Fürstin-Bismarck-Schule in Charlottenburg, Vera Lachmann studied German and classical philology at the universities in Basel and Berlin . Following her doctorate in 1931, she aspired to become a teacher at secondary schools and completed her training in February 1933 with the state examination.

In April 1933, she and Helene Herrmann founded a private school for Jewish children in the Grunewald district . After the school was closed by the National Socialists at the end of 1938, she worked for a short time for the child emigration department of the Reich Representation for Jews in Germany . However, in late 1939 she emigrated to the United States via Denmark and Sweden.

In 1943 Vera Lachmann founded Camp Catawba , a summer camp for boys in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, which combined educational reform goals with an eventful vacation stay. Vera Lachmann's partner Tui St. George Tucker and the pianist Grete Sultan were music counselors at Camp Catawba, which existed until 1970.

She received teaching positions at various schools and universities. Eventually she came to Brooklyn College , where she initially taught Greek and Latin and was appointed professor in 1972. Vera Lachmann lived in New York with the American composer Tui St. George Tucker. Her closest friends from Berlin times were the poet and writer Nelly Sachs and the pianist Grete Sultan .

Honors

  • In the exhibition "Here is no longer staying" ( Nelly Sachs ) of the Museum Wilmersdorf (today: Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) from March 19 to September 18, 1992, five founders of Jewish schools in Wilmersdorf were commemorated: Leonore Goldschmidt (1897–1983) , Lotte Kaliski (1908–1995), Vera Lachmann (1904–1985), Toni Lessler (1874–1952) and Anna Pelteson (1868–1943).

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literature

  • Moritz von Bredow: rebellious pianist . The life of Grete Sultan between Berlin and New York. Schott Music , Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7957-0800-9 (biography with many details about Vera Lachmann).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin III No. 615/1904 .
  2. ^ Bredow 2012
personal data
SURNAME Laughing man, Vera
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachmann, Vera Regina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American philologist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1985
Place of death New York City