Lisa Tetzner

Lisa Tetzner ( born November 10, 1894 in Zittau, † July 2, 1963 in Carona ) was a German children's book author and storyteller, who together with her husband Kurt Klaber had to leave Germany in 1933 because of persecution by the Nazis. She was expatriated in 1938 and acquired in 1948 the Swiss nationality. Until her death, she lived in Carona in Canton Ticino.

Life

Lisa Tetzner was born in 1894 as the daughter of a doctor in Zittau. As a result of a disease to whooping cough at the age of eleven, she suffered a knee joint inflammation secondary, which led to a stiffening of her left knee. You could walk free again only after several years of immobility.

At 19, she attended to her father's will and in spite of her fragile health condition, the Social Women's School in Berlin to become police assistant. She enrolled at the Max Reinhardt drama school courses in elocution and voice training and enrolled at the University of Berlin under Emil Milan, who was a lecturer in elocution there. Emil Milan became her mentor and also supported their tendency to folk tales. Lisa Tetzner joined the youth movement. The decisive impetus for their further life was 1917/18, the encounter with the publisher Eugen Diederichs. Lisa Tetzner began as a storyteller through the villages of central and southern Germany (Thuringia, Swabia and the Rhineland ) to draw. Eugen Diederichs also brought her first book From storytelling out among the people.

1919 Lisa learned Tetzner on one of their walks in Thuringia, the German Communist Party politician and writer Kurt workers Kläber know. In 1921 she was again confined to bed due to a right-sided hip joint inflammation. Although the inflammation healed up again, however, led to a continuous reinforcement. In 1924, she married Kurt Klaber, under the pseudonym Kurt Held among other things wrote Die rote Zora and her gang later. 1927 Lisa Tetzner was appointed as head of the children's hour at the Berliner Rundfunk and was also responsible for the children's programs of other broadcast stations from 1932. In addition, it issued comprehensive collections of fairy tales. From 1928 she began to write her own children's books.

In 1933, she emigrated with her ​​husband, who came into conflict because of his political opinion with the Nazis, to Carona ( Switzerland ), before he went into the neighborhood of her boyfriend Hermann Hesse, where Bert Brecht temporarily stayed with them to Denmark. Tetzners books were subsequently banned in Germany. In 1935 she lost after an attack in the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps their German publisher. From 1937 she worked as a lecturer in elocution at the cantonal teacher seminar in Basel, where she worked until 1955. 1938, she was stripped of his German citizenship; In 1948 she received Swiss citizenship.

In the 1950s, Lisa Tetzner was a patron of the fantastic children's literature (especially Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking, 1945), which was adopted rather hesitantly in Germany. In 1957 she translated CS Lewis' first Narnia book.

Works

Children's and picture books, fairy tales, children's pieces

  • Look out, the name of my House ( 1925)
  • The Tale of the big, fat pancakes (1925 )
  • The transition to life (1926 )
  • The Seven Ravens (1928 )
  • Hans Urian or The Story of a World ( 1929)
  • The great and the small, Klaus (1929 )
  • From the fairy tree in the world ( 1929)
  • The football ( 1932)
  • Seven Schön ( 1933)
  • What happened at Sea ( 1935) [ filmed ]
  • The trip to Ostend ( 1936)
  • The Miracle Kettle (1936 )
  • Belopazü (1938)
  • The black brothers along with Kurt Klaber in 2 volumes, Sauerland, Aarau 1940/41,
  • Sugus Storybook (1950 )
  • Su - The history of queer twelve nights (1950 )
  • The Little Su from Africa ( 1952)
  • The black walnut (1952 )
  • Su Agaleia (1953)
  • The Töpflein with the Hulle bull - belly (1953 )
  • If I were beautiful ( 1956)
  • The girl in the glass coach (1957 )

Experiences and adventures of the children of No. 67

Lisa Tetzners main work is the 1933 to 1949 series published experiences and adventures of the children of No. 67 Odyssey of a youth that is considered sometimes as the most important German-language children's book of exile. In it, the era of National Socialism in Germany is told from childhood perspective.

  • Volume 1: Erwin and Paul ( 1933)
  • Volume 2: The girl from the front building (1948 )
  • Volume 3: Erwin comes to Sweden (1941 )
  • Volume 4: The ship without a sail (1943 )
  • Volume 5: The children on the island ( 1944)
  • Volume 6: Mirjam in America ( 1945)
  • Volume 7: Was Paul guilty? (1945 )
  • Volume 8: When I came back (1946 )
  • Volume 9: The new covenant (1949 )

Reports, reports, theoretical writings

  • From storytelling in people (1919)
  • At game 's tracks and hiking days (1923 )
  • In the land of industry, between the Rhine and Ruhr (1923 )
  • In the blue car through Germany (1926 )
  • That was Kurt hero. 40 years life with him (1961 )
  • The Tale and Lisa Tetzner. A picture of life (1966 )

Publishing activities

  • German puzzle book (1924 )
  • The most beautiful fairytale in the world for 365 and a day 2 volumes of Jena in 1926/27; (4 volumes), reprinted under the title fairy tale year, Munich 1956
  • Danish Fairy Tales (1948 )
  • English Fairy Tales (1948 )
  • French Fairy Tales (1948 )
  • Sicilian Tale ( 1950)
  • Russian Fairy Tales (1950 )
  • Negro 's Tale ( 1950)
  • Indian Fairy Tales (1950 )
  • Tales of the Nations (1950 )
  • Japanese Fairy Tales (1950 )
  • Turkish Fairy Tale (1950 )
  • Indian Fairy Tales (1950 )
  • Colorful beads. Children's stories from around the world (1956 )
  • The Tale year, 2 volumes (1956 )
  • European fairy tales (1958 )
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