Margarete Weisenborn Explained

Joy Weisenborn
Birth Name:Margarete Schnabel
Birth Date:5 September 1914
Birth Place:Essen, Germany
Death Date:2004
Death Place:Heide
Resting Place:Lohe-Rickelshof/Schleswig-Holstein
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:German
Movement:Member of the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle")
Spouse:Gunther Weisenborn
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Margarete "Joy" Weisenborn (5 September 1914 in Essen, 2004 in Heide) was a German resistance fighter against Nazism as well as a writer and later a singer.[1]

Life

Weisenborn, born Margarethe Shnabel was the daughter Johannes Julius Schnabel who owned a small manufacturing factory in Wuppertal.[1] As a child, she was completed her education in middle school and never attended high school.[2] Weisenborns father died when she was in middle school, and the family were forced into poverty, leading her to rebel.[2] She was sent to a boarding school for difficult children in the Netherlands in 1933, where she trained to be a school teacher.[2]

After school Weisenborn went on a long journey through both France and England, finding work as an au pair, while she traveled[2] and learning the language. While travelling, Weisenborn met Libertas Haas-Heye and exchanged details.[2] From 1937 to 1938 Weisenborn worked as private tutor at Schwerin Castle in Mecklenburg.[2]

On 25 January 1941, Weisenborn married Günther Weisenborn.[3]

Arrest

On 26 September 1942, Joy and Günther Weisenborn were arrested.[4] Weisenborn was imprisoned in the women's remand prison at 79 Kantstraße in Charlottenburg from 28 January 1943 and released in April 1943. Günther Weisenborn was sentenced to death by the Reichskriegsgericht and sent to Luckau prison, until he was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.[5]

After World War II

From 1969, after the death of Günther Weisenborn, she lived in Agarone, Switzerland. In old age, when the steps and stairs “on the mountain” were making her life difficult, she decided to move to a shared apartment in Ascona and then finally moved again to Heide, just before her death, so as to be near her son Sebastian.[6]

In July 2017, their son, released a documentary film "Die guten Feinde" (The Good Enemies) that features his parents along with many members of the Rote Kapelle, that attempts to draw a portrait of the group.[7]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kettelhake . Silke . "Erzähl allen, allen von mir!" : das schöne kurze Leben der Libertas Schulze-Boysen 1913-1942 . 2008 . Droemer . Münich . 9783426274378 . de . 221130666. Tell everyone, everyone about me!' – The beautiful, short life of Libertas Schulze-Boysen, 1913–1942. 213.
  2. Book: Weisenborn . Joy . Weisenborn . Günther . Weisenborn . Christian . Weisenborn . Sebastian . Woller . Hans . Liebe in Zeiten des Hochverrats: Tagebücher und Briefe aus dem Gefängnis 1942-1945 . 2017 . C. H. Beck . München . 9783406714221 . de. 8.
  3. Book: Nelson, Anne . Red Orchestra. The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler . Random House . New York . 2009 . 978-1-4000-6000-9 . 71.
  4. Web site: Woller . Hans . "Zu viel für ein Menschenleben"– Die Weisenborns und die "Rote Kapelle . "Too much for one human life"- The Weisenborns and the "Red Orchestra". Institut für Zeitgeschichte . NS-Dokumentationszentrum München in Kooperation mit der Münchner Volkshochschule GmbH und dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin . 15 July 2023 . Munich . de . 6 April 2018.
  5. Book: Wörmann . Heinrich-Wilhelm . Widerstand in Charlottenburg . 1999 . Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand . Berlin . 134 . 2n .
  6. News: Der deutsche Arzt Sebastian Weisenborn lädt zum Gespräch über seinen Vater Günther Weisenborn . Tessiner Zeitung . Rezzonico Editore SA . 2 July 2010 . Locarno, Ticino . de.
  7. Web site: Ehlert-Klein . Ronald . Die guten Feinde . Kinofenster . Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung . 15 July 2023 . de.

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