Ilse Maria Aschner
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Ilse Maria Aschner, née Römer (September 26, 1918 – October 10, 2012), was an Austrian journalist and survivor of the
Holocaust
.
Early life
Aschner was born in Vienna, into a secular
Austrian Socialist Party, and raised both Ilse and her brother in humanist ideals. Aschner attended University of Vienna, studying German literature and psychology (including under professor Charlotte Bühler
). Until March 1938 she did not know that she was Jewish according to the "Nürnberg Race Laws", passed by the Nazis because she was a baptised Christian though she did not go to church.
Holocaust
In 1938, when the
Second World War
.
Post-war career
In 1946 Aschner returned to Austria with her husband, Peter Aschner (1918–1984). She had become a convinced communist and worked for several years as a journalist for the
Austrian Communist Party's own newspaper. After the end of the Prague Spring in 1968 Aschner lost her belief in "socialism with a human face", and along with many Austrian intellectuals left the party. From 1969 to 1978 she worked for the Austrian monthly magazine FORVM, which had been founded by Friedrich Torberg and was at that time run by Günther Nenning. After leaving FORVM she became chief secretary of the Grazer Autoren Versammlung, Austria's largest writers' union, where she worked with Ernst Jandl and Josef Haslinger. In 1989 she retired, and has since performed in Vienna's first reading theatre. Since 2006 she has had only a few readings, but remains one of the most interviewed witnesses of the shoah
in Austria.
She lived as a widow in Vienna.
References
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External links
- Bowlby, Chris (March 7, 2008). "Austria still haunted by Nazi past". BBC Radio Four. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
- ""Das Vermächtnis" - Die ZeitzeugInnen". erinnern.at (in German). Retrieved 2009-01-25.
- Ilse Aschner video at erinnern.at holocaust survivors' project[permanent dead link]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110531203809/http://www.univie.ac.at/Publizistik/OHAschner.htm
- http://textfeld.ac.at/text/1264
- http://www.lettertothestars.at/uploads/pdf/024028_Aschner.pdf
- Mention of Ilse Maria Aschner's death (in German)
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