Ruth von Mayenburg

Ruth Mayen Castle ( born July 1, 1907 in Serbitz, Bohemia, † June 26, 1993 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist, writer and translator.

Life

Ruth Mayen castle was the daughter of a noble coal mine director and grew up in a cosmopolitan aristocrat family in the small Bohemian town of Teplice on. She began to study architecture at the Technical University of Dresden. In 1930 she moved to Vienna to Baroness Netka Latscher - Lauenburg village, a friend of her mother and life partner of the later Austrian Federal President Theodor Körner ( Edler von victory rings ). Over the two came Ruth (from) Mayen castle in a circle of young socialists, where she met intellectual friends like the writer Elias Canetti or the Arbeiter-Zeitung editor Ernst Fischer, who influenced her political thinking. Also in 1930, she met General Kurt von Hammerstein - Equord know that was the end of the year became chief of the army command, and traded for him after 1933 conspiratorial messages with the head of the Soviet army. In 1932 she married Ernst Fischer.

In 1934, she actively participated in the uprising in February and then had to go abroad (Prague, then USSR) to escape. From 1938 to 1945 she lived in the Hotel Lux in exile she became a member of the illegal Communist Party, was spying for the Red Army, made ​​courier services and worked for the Communist International (press office). During the Second World War she worked in the propaganda department of the Soviet Army, most recently as a colonel.

Upon her return to Austria in 1945, she was Secretary General of the Austrian- Soviet Society, worked as a film dramaturge at the Vienna film and worked, among others, the film Mädeln Vienna ( 1949) by Willi Forst with. In 1966 she joined Although out of the CPA, in her 1969 published autobiographical novel "Blue Blood and Red flags " but she described processes and leading persons of their time in the Soviet Union still largely positive. Since the death of Ernst Fischer in 1972, however, she went to this increasingly at a distance. In her 1978 book " Hotel Lux " she finally exercised considerable criticism of the former states of the Soviet Union and the numerous German immigrants, who she had met at the Hotel Lux, including Herbert Wehner. In her second marriage, she was married to the conservative publicist Kurt Dieman - Dichtl. Last focused on her work as a writer and translator.

Works

• Blue blood and red flags. Revolutionary women's lives between Vienna, Berlin and Moscow. In 1969. ISBN 3900478724 ( Promedia Publishing 1993)
• Hotel Lux Bertelsmann Verlag ( 1978) ISBN 3570022714
• Hotel Lux The flophouse quarters of the world revolution. In 1979. ISBN 3492113559 ( Piper Verlag GmbH, 1991)
• Hotel Lux - people trap. Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag GmbH, 2011. ISBN 3938045604