Yvonne Kapp

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Yvonne Hélène Kapp (née Mayer ) (born April 17, 1903 in Norwood , London ; died June 22, 1999 in London) was an English author and historian. Her pseudonym is Yvonne Cloud .

life and work

Yvonne Mayer was born in 1903 to Jewish parents in a London suburb. Her father Max Alfred Mayer (1871–1948) was born in Worms , her mother was Clarisse Fanny Bielefeld (1878–1961). She studied at King's College in London, in 1922 she married the painter Edmond X. Kapp . During the 1920s she was the features editor of Vogue in Paris. In 1930 she divorced. In 1936 she became a member of the British Communist Party and traveled to Moscow with Harry Pollitt . She worked for the refugees from the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War and from 1937 to 1940 for the British authorities for the Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia . In 1941 she became a scientific employee of the "Amalgamated Engineering Union" and then for the "Medical Research Council". From 1953 to 1957 she worked for the publishing house "Lawrence and Wishart" as an editor and translator .

She began her writing career in 1926 with the book “Pastiche. A music-room book ". This was followed by other works under the pseudonym "Yvonne Cloud". As a translator for Ilja Ehrenburg and Bertolt Brecht , she made herself known to the English-speaking audience. From 1966 she worked on the biography of Eleanor Marx . The book has been featured in leading newspapers including the Times , Guardian , Evening Standard , Listener , New Statesman, and Morning Star . Her biography about Eleanor Marx is scientifically recognized and, according to Eric Hobsbawm, is "an absolutely first-class biography."

Fonts

  • Pastiche. A music-room book . With Twenty-eight Drawings b Edmond X. Kapp. Faber & Gwyer, London 1926.
  • Yvonne Cloud: Short Lease . Desmond Harmsworth, London 1932.
  • Yvonne Cloud: Nobody asked you. The Willy-Nilly Press, London [1932].
  • Yvonne Cloud: Mediterranean Blues . John Lane, London 1933.
  • Yvonne Cloud: Creditors and how to escape them. Being a hand-book of practical value to debtors and insolvents of all ages, etc. John Lane, London 1933.
  • Beside the seaside. Six variations . Ed. by Yvonne Cloud. Stanley Nott, London 1934.
  • The Basque children in England. An account of their life at North Stoneham camp . With photographs. London 1937.
  • Yvonne Cloud: The Houses in between. A domestic comedy in several districts. John Lane, London 1938.
  • Library of Contemporary Soviet Novels . (General editor: Y. Kapp.). Lawrence & Wishart, London 1955 ff.
  • A Study of Attitudes to Factory Work . S. Wyatt and R. Marriott, assisted by RA Denerley; H. Campbell; J. Walker; Yvonne Kapp and FGL Stock. Her Majesty's Stationery Off., London 1956. (= Special Report Series. Privy Council. Medical Research Council. 292)
  • Ilja Ehrenburg: Julio Jurenito . Translated by Anna Bostock in collaboration with Yvonne Kapp. MacGibbon & Kee, London 1958.
  • Paul Lechat: Italy. Line drawings by Remo Forlani . Translated by Yvonne Kapp. Edward Hulton, London 1959.
  • Frederick Engels , Paul and Laura Lafargue . Correspondence . (Translated by Yvonne Kapp.) 3 Vol. Foreign Languages ​​Publishing House: Moscow, 1959-1963.
  • Bertolt Brecht: The prose . Transl. by Yvonne Kapp. The verse transl. by Michael Hamburger. Methuen, London 1961.
  • Some reflections on Brecht . In: Marxism today. 6, February 2, 1962, pp. 49-53. ISSN  0025-4118
  • Ilja Ehrenburg: Chekhov, Stendhal and other essays . Translated by Anna Bostock in collaboration with Yvonne Kapp. MacGibbon & Kee, London 1962.
  • Ilja Ehrenburg: Men, years - life . Vol. 5 The War 1941-45 . Translated by Tatania Shebunina in collaboration with Yvonne Kapp. MacGibbon & Kee, London 1964.
  • Ilja Ehrenburg: Memoirs. 1921-1941 . Translated by Tatania Shebunina in collaboration with Yvonne Kapp. Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1966.
  • Eleanor Marx. Vol. I, Family life (1855-1883) . Lawrence and Wishart, London 1972. ISBN 0-85315-248-9
  • Eleanor Marx. Vol. II. The crowded years (1884-1898) . Lawrence and Wishart, London 1976. ISBN 0-85315-370-1
  • Eleanor, chronique familiale des Marx Trad. de l'anglais by Olga Meier. Ed. Sociales, Paris 1980. ISBN 2-209-05367-6
    • Cronica familiei Marx, (1855-1883) . Ed. Titu Georgescu. Editura Politică, Bucures, ti 1983.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Short stories. 1921-1946 . Ed. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Transl. by Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison and Anthony Tatlow Methuen, London 1983. ISBN 0-413-37050-X
  • The air of freedom. The birth of the new unionism . Lawrence and Wishart, London 1989.
  • The personal and the political. The Young Communist League and youth culture Frederick Demuth. New evidence from old sources . Pluto Press, London 1994. ISBN 0-7453-0810-4
  • New evidence from old sources . In: The personal and the political. The Journal of the Socialist History Society. Issue 6, London Autumn 1994, pp. 17-27. ISBN 0-7453-0810-4
  • Yvonne Kapp, George Wardle : In search of Mr. and Mrs. Wardle. Footnote to a murder trial together with George Wardle's memorials of William Morris , some of his drawings for his letters to Messrs. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. and other documents . History Workshop, Oxford 1994.
  • Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt: British policy and the refugees 1933–1941 . Frank Cass, London 1997. ISBN 0-7146-4797-7 Table of contents and foreword
  • Time will tell. Memoirs . Ed. by Chairmian Brinson and Betty Lewis and with a prefeace by Allison Light. Verso, London 2003. ISBN 1-85984-510-X Autobiography

literature

  • Sally Alexander: "I have always been a writer" - Yvonne Kapp. Writer and socialist . In: the same: Becoming a woman and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history. Virago, London 1994. ISBN 1-85381-757-0 , pp. 183-200.
  • Yvonne Kapp. Obituary . In: The Times, London. August 2, 1999, p. 19. ISSN  0140-0460
  • Kapp [née Mayer], Yvonne Hélène (1903–1999) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004.
  • Godela Weiss-Sussex: "A ridiculous thing to do". Yvonne Kapp and Brecht in translation . In: Robert Gillett: "Cover the tracks!" Bertolt Brecht's work and legacy. A reassessment . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2008. ISBN 978-90-420-2432-8 , pp. 309-320.
  • Kapp (nèe Mayer), Yvonne Helene . In: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History edited by W. Rubinstein, Michael A. Jolles. Palgrave Macmillan, London 2011, p. 505. Digitized
  • Robert Sitton; Lady in the dark. Iris Barry and the art of film . Columbia University Press, New York 2014. ISBN 9780231165785

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Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
  2. ↑ Time will tell. Memoirs .
  3. ^ The Basque Children in England. An account of their life at North Stoneham camp .
  4. ↑ Yvonne Kapp, Margaret Mynatt: British policy and the refugees from 1933 to 1941 .
  5. ↑ Obituary: Yvonne Kapp . In: The Independent . July 1, 1999 ( independent.co.uk [accessed November 29, 2016]).
  6. ^ "Author's note". In: Eleanor Marx. Vol. I, Family life (1855-1883) , 11.
  7. ↑ Blurb: Eleanor Marx. Vol. I, Family life (1855-1883) .
  8. ↑ Includes: Southend by Kate O'Brien, Brighton by Antonia White, Bournemouth by Malcolm Muggeridge, Blackpool by James Laver, Scarbourough by VS Pritchett, Margate by Yvonne Cloud.
  9. ^ "Dedicated to Bianca Margaret Mynatt".
  10. ^ "To the Memory of Elisabeth Homer Whitman (née Peel) d. 11 December 1972. Robert Stewart d 14 September 1973 “.
  11. ^ "Dedicated to the Memory of Margaret (Bianca) Mynatt, 1907–1977".
  12. ↑ Dedicated: "For Betty Lewis".
personal data
SURNAME Kapp, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapp, Yvonne Hélène (full name); Mayer, Yvonne Hélène (maiden name); Cloud, Yvonne (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English author and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwood , London
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1999
Place of death London