Else Feldmann

Else Feldmann ( born February 25, 1884 in Vienna, Austria, † 1942 in Sobibor death camp in eastern Poland assassinated ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.

Life

The daughter of Jewish parents grew up with six siblings in economically non-beneficiary ratios. With their energy, she managed to attend a teacher training institution. When her father lost his job as a sales representative and the family thus had no income, she had to cancel this training and worked in a factory.

From 1908 she published numerous small narratives and journalistic reports, such as juvenile court reports and texts to socially critical topics such as Kindernot, youth crime and misery districts of the city. Mainly they published in the " evening ", the " Neue Wiener Journal", the " Neue Freie Presse", the Arbeiter-Zeitung and " The Woman".

Furthermore, she wrote novels that were first printed in part as a continuation of stories in the newspapers. In this way they also reached people who bought or borrowed any books and had himself a living. In the literary quality of their writings they yet never fell to the level of trivial novels.

Dialogues played a major role in their texts. She also wrote a play entitled The cry that no one hears, which premiered on February 12, 1916 at Vienna's stage. The " tragedy of the ghetto " was not the hoped-for large public response and was soon taken off the Schedule. In addition, she still wrote other plays, all of which are lost. They had close contact with the Viennese journalist and literary scene (for example, there was one, also lost, correspondence with Arthur Schnitzler ), and in 1933 was a founding member of the " Federation of Socialist writers " who had stock for only one year because of magisterial ban. On 14 June 1942 she was abducted by the Gestapo and little in the extermination camp Sobibor, which lies on the border with Ukraine in eastern Poland, later murdered.

1994 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ), the Else- Feldmann - alley named after her (2011 abandoned, since this area due to the neubeschlossenen zoning plan no public traffic area is more ).

Works (selection)

• Balloon (In: The woman, 33 born, No. 12, December 1, 1924)
• Diary of a fifteen- year-old girl (In: The woman, born 41, No. 3, March 1932 )
• Dandelion. A childhood. - Rikola ET, Vienna 1921 ( Austrian National Library Call Number: 541 722 -B ) new Vienna in 1993 by the publisher for social criticism (now Döcker -Verlag).
• Melody in a minor key. - Berlin, Leipzig: Hunchback -Verl. .
• The body of the mother. Leipzig and Vienna 1931 ( Austrian National Library Call Number: 541 459 -C), new: Vienna Women Verlag 1993
• Love without hope. Narratives. Publisher of books Gutenberg Berlin 1928.

Literature (selection )

• Monika Nebosis: But what remains at the end? - Else Feldmann's novels, Dandelion ',' The body of the mother 'and' Martha and Antonia '. Diploma thesis, Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna, 1999.
• Elisabeth Malleier: Jewish Women in Vienna (1816 - 1938): Welfare - Education for girls - women's work. Dissertation, Vienna, 2000.
• Helga Mayer: Else Feldmann - journalist and writer. Diploma thesis, Department of Journalism, University of Vienna, 1992.
• Adolf Opel (ed.): Else Feldmann: work for the theater. Lidi Europe Publishing House, Berlin, 2007. ISBN 9783940011060
• Elisabeth H. Debazi: Writing from the edge. Else Feldmann: journalist and writer (1884-1942) In: Chilufim. Journal of Jewish Culture History 3 /2007. Pp. 97-109.