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Marie Jahoda über Eugenie Schwarzwald Küb am Semmering, Sommer 1919 Another important influence had been the camps organised by Eugenie Schwarzwald immediately after the end of the First World War. Frau Doctor, as she was generally known, was a quite outstanding woman. Founder and Director of the first Austrian gymnasium for girls she and her school were a cultural centre in Vienna; the young Serkin1 and Kokoschka2 were her protegés whose art was made available to the students and to outsiders selected by her whim. She was a social innovator in many fields in which voluntary efforts could benefit from her original ideas. One such idea were the summer camps on the Semmering, staffed by 19–20yr. old students for children up to 14 years. In 1920 (?)3 Rosi [Jahoda, married Kuerti] and I attended such a camp. Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 34–35. 1 Rudolf Serkin (Eger, Böhmen [Cheb, Tschechische Republik] 1903 – Guilford, Vermont 1991): Pianist; Pianisten-Ausbildung in Wien; übersiedelte 1922 nach Deutschland, 1927 in die Schweiz und emigrierte 1939 in die USA. Anmerkung Reinhard Müller. 2 Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, Niederösterreich 1886 – Villeneuve, Waadt 1980): Maler, Grafiker, Schriftsteller und Kunstprofessor; emigrierte 1934 in die Tschechoslowakei und 1938 nach Großbritannien (seit 1947 britischer Staatsbürger), seit 1953 in der Schweiz. Anmerkung Reinhard Müller. 3 Da Marie Jahoda von einer Sommerkolonie am Semmering schreibt, handelt es sich vermutlich um die Schwarzwaldsche Sommerkolonie 1919 – also nicht 1920 – in Küb am Semmering (zu Payerbach, Niederösterreich). Anmerkung Reinhard Müller. © Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006 |
POLITISCHES ENGAGEMENT Eugenie Schwarzwald Pfadfinderinnen Vereinigung Sozialistischer Mittelschüler Rede zum 1. Mai 1926 Sommerkolonie Otto Bauer Austromarxismus |