Ilse Maria Aschner

Ilse Maria Aschner (* September 26, 1918 Born in Vienna, Romans, † October 10, 2012 ibid ) was an Austrian journalist and eyewitness of the Holocaust. She was a member of the Graz Authors Author Assembly ( CLA)

Life

Ilse Maria Aschner grew up as the daughter of an assimilated Jewish middle-class family in the Red Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s. Her parents Gustav and Paula Romans were both active and committed social democrats, who were also active in the resistance against the Austro-fascist corporate state under Engelbert Dollfuss.

She and her brother Wolfgang Römer (1913-2000) were baptized Protestant. Both knew until the Anschluss in 1938 not to their Jewish origin. As only one from her family, she managed after nearly a year-long delay of exit permits to legally emigrate as needed work force to Britain. My brother made ​​it a little later also to flee to England. There Ilse met her future husband Peter Aschner (1918-1984), journalist, editor and translator, was familiar. In 1946 she returned to Vienna. She learned only gradually that their parents and the entire family had been murdered by the Nazis.

After work-related stays in Salzburg, Linz and Prague in 1962, she returned permanently to Vienna.

Activity

She began her journalism career as a writer in the communist women's magazine "Voice of the woman." In 1969, however, she appeared, like many other intellectuals protest against the suppression of the Prague Spring from the Austrian Communist Party ( KPO ) and began to work at the " NEW FORVM " with Günther Nenning. After that, she worked as a secretary at the Graz authors meeting and worked closely with Ernst Jandl and Josef Haslinger, whose book "Politics of feelings " in a chapter deals with their lives together. Since the early 1990s, she appeared in the First Vienna readers' theater and the Second Viennese Stegreiftheater decisive (together with Rolf and Eva Schwendter Fillipp the "Board", the so-called " group of three "). In early 2006, she put back her functions in this and stepped thereafter only occasionally as Mitlesende on.

Since the 1980s, she was active as a contemporary witness of Viennese schools, to the knowledge of the Holocaust, the almost her entire family fell victim to pass and to keep it alive.