Hertha Pauli

Hertha Pauli From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hertha Ernestine Pauli Born September 4, 1906 Vienna, Austria-Hungary Died February 9, 1973 (aged 66) Long Island, New York Occupation Journalist, writer, actress Nationality Austrian, American Spouse Carl Behr, E. B. Ashton Hertha Pauli (September 4, 1906 – February 9, 1973) was an Austrian journalist, author and actress.

Contents [hide] 1 Biography 2 Works 3 References 4 Literature 5 External links Biography[edit] Hertha Ernestine Pauli was born in Vienna, the daughter of feminist Bertha Schütz and medical scientist Wolfgang Pauli. Her brother was Wolfgang Pauli, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1945.

From 1927 to 1933 she played different small roles at the Max Reinhardt Theatre in Berlin and was allied with Ödön von Horváth. From 1933 to 1938 she lived in Vienna, edited the "Österreichische Korrespondenz" and published biographical novels, for example about the feminist Bertha von Suttner.[1]

After the Anschluss she emigrated to France. In Paris she belonged to the circle of Joseph Roth, knew the American journalist Eric Sevareid, and wrote for Resistance. In 1940, after the Nazis occupied France, she fled with the writer Walter Mehring through Marseilles, the Pyrenees and Lisbon. With the aid of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, she made her way to the United States.[2]

After her arrival in America she described her flight in the journal Aufbau.[3] In the following years she wrote books about Alfred Nobel and the Statue of Liberty. Her books for children, in particular, had some success. These books included "Silent Night. The Story of a Song" (1943), in which she explained the origin of the carol. She married Ernst Basch (pen name E.B. Ashton), with whom she had collaborated on "I Lift My Lamp." Her last book was autobiographical and described the time after the Nazi's union with France.[4] She died in Long Island, New York.

Works[edit] Toni. Ein Frauenleben für Ferdinand Raimund, 1936 Nur eine Frau. Bertha von Suttner, 1937 Alfred Nobel, Dynamite King, Architect of Peace, 1942 Silent Night. The Story of a Song", 1943 Story of the Christmas Tree, 1944 St. Nicholas Travels, 1946 I Lift my Lamp, The Way of a Symbol, 1948 The Golden Door, 1949 Three Is a Family, 1955 Bernadette and the Lady, 1956 Her Name Was Sojourner Truth The Secret of Sarajevo: The Story of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, 1966 Break of Time, 1972 References[edit] Jump up ^ http://www.univie.ac.at/biografiA/PauliTagung/BerichtHerthaPauli-Ta... Jump up ^ Varian Fry: Surrender on Demand. Random House, 1945 Jump up ^ Three parts, published on 11.10.40, 25.10.40 and 01.11.40. http://deposit.d-nb.de/online/exil/exil.htm Jump up ^ Pauli, Hertha: Break of Time. Hawthorn Book, 1972. Literature[edit] Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period, edited by Sibylle Quack, David Lazar, Christof Mauch. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Marino, Andy, American Pimpernel: The Man who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List. Hutchinson, 1999. Pfanner, Helmut F., Exile in New York: German and Austrian Writers After 1933. Wayne State University Press, 1983. Stern, Guy, 'Hertha Pauli'. In: Stern, Guy, Literatur im Exil, Bd.2. Ismaning 1989. External links[edit] "Eine Brücke über den Riss der Zeit...". Das Leben und Wirken der Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Hertha Pauli The German and Jewish intellectual émigré collection of the university at Albany: (The German and Jewish intellectual émigré collection) Works by or about Hertha Pauli in libraries (WorldCat catalog)