Lola Landau Explained

Lola Landau, birth name: Leonore Landau (December 3, 1892 - February 3, 1990) was an Israeli writer, poet, and dramatist. She wrote in German and was member of the .^[1] While in Germany she was an active pacifist.^[2]

Biography

Leonore Landau was born in Berlin to a family of noted Jewish gynecologist Theodor Landau (brother of gynecologist Leopold Landau) and Philippine née Fulda. Among her ancestors was a noted scholar in halakha rabbi Yechezkel Landau.^[1]

In 1915 she married philosopher and moved to Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), where she published her first poems. She had two sons with Merck. In 1920, after an intense affair, she divorced and married poet and pacifist Armin T. Wegner.^[1] Together with her sons, they moved to, where her daughter Sybille was born in 1923. In 1925 they moved to Berlin.^[1] Wegner was an ethnic German, and it was an unlikely case of Jew and gentile intermarriage at these times.^[3] From October to February 1927/28 Landau and Wegner were among selected guests invited to the Soviet Union on the occasion of celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. Wegner wrote a travelogue book about this.^[4]

She moved to Palestine with her son Andreas and daughter Sybille in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem^[1] (Her another son fled to Australia.^[5]) Her husband (while already having a romance with artist Irene Kowaliska) initially followed her, but being at ethnic German, could not live neither in Nazi Germany, nor in Palestine, so he decided to settle in Italy,^[6] and in 1939 they divorced. Afterwards Lola had a relationship with noted mathematician .^[1]

Books

• Positano oder Der Weg ins dritte Leben, Berlin : Verlag Das Arsenal, 1995, ISBN 3-921810-62-0
• Vor dem Vergessen. Meine drei Leben (Before oblivion. My three lives), Berlin : Ullstein, 1992, ISBN 3-548-30285-8, an autobiography
• Leben in Israel, Deutsche Ausgabe: Marbach : Dt. Schillergesellschaft, 1987
• Die zärtliche Buche, Bodman/Bodensee : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1980
• Variationen der Liebe, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-8056-2104-3
• Hörst du mich, kleine Schwester?, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1971, ISBN 3-8056-2103-5
• Noch liebt mich die Erde, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1969
• Abgrund, Berlin-Charlottenburg : Weltgeist-Bücher, (1926)
• Das Lied der Mutter, Charlottenburg : F. Lehmann, (1919)

Awards

• 1989: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany^[1]

Further reading

• Birgitta Hamann, Lola Landau. Leben und Werk. Ein Beispiel deutsch-jüdischer Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland und Palästina/Israel, 2000
• ARMIN T. WEGNER UND LOLA LANDAU, Geliebter Dämon, BRIEFWECHSEL 1916-1977 (edited by), correspondence between Armin T. Wegner and Lola Landay, over 1,500 letters

External links

• Catalog of works of Lola Landau, German National Library

Notes and References

1. https://armin-t-wegner.de/lola-landau/ Lola Landau
2. Corinne Painter, "Revolutionary perspectives: German Jewish women and 1918–19", Journal of European Studies, Volume 51, Issue 2, 2021
3. , Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925, p. 110
4. https://www.abrilbooks.com/five-fingers-over-you.html Publisher's comments on the translation of the book
5. https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Persons/landau-lola-en.html LOLA LANDAU
6. https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835337565-geliebter-daemon.html ARMIN T. WEGNER AND LOLA LANDAU Geliebter Dämon