Marie Jahoda über Ella Lingens, geborene Reiner

Paul [Lazarsfeld] had for the sake of our relationship broken off an engagement to an interesting, beautiful and intelligent girl [i.e. Ella Reiner, married Lingens] whom I knew well. So I was convinced that I was it and for life. […]
Paul’s tendency to create personal problems was mitigated by his conviction that he could fix it somehow. In the case of the girl he had dropped, he persuaded Fritz Adler, then secretary of the Second International in Zurich, to hire her as an assistant – a prestigeful, desirable position. I have met her several times many years later, after she came out of a concentration camp, about which she has written a very good book.1 But I have never had the nerve to ask her how she experienced the fix then.

Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 38.

1 Vgl. Ella Lingens-Reiner: Prisoners of fear. With an introduction by Arturo Barea. London: Victor Gollancz 1948; Auschwitz. Zeugnisse und Berichte, herausgegeben von H[ans] G[ünther] Adler, Hermann Langbein, Ella Lingens-Reiner. Mannheim: Europäische Verlagsanstalt 1962; Ella Lingens: Eine Frau im Konzentrationslager. Wien–Frankfurt–Zürich: Europa Verlag 1966 (= Monographien zur Zeitgeschichte.). Anmerkung Reinhard Müller.

© Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006

EHE MIT P. F. LAZARSFELD
Carl Jahoda und P. F. Lazarsfeld
Ehekonflikte
Paris
Geburt der Tochter
Karl-Marx-Hof
Lazarsfeld als Vater
Schuld am Scheitern der Ehe
Psychoanalyse
Trennung
Unterstützung

Ella Lingens
Sofie Lazarsfeld