Marie Jahoda über die Geburt von Lotte Lazarsfeld, verheiratete Bailyn

Wien, Juli 1930

On the evening labour began, we were at the Zeisels [i.e. Hans Zeisel and Ilse Zeisel]. People danced, Paul [Lazarsfeld] with his then girlfriend, when I had to ask him to take me to the Maternity Sanatorium. The fourteen days I spent there – a wonderful old-fashioned practice – I enjoyed thoroughly. I had a room looking out on a beautiful. garden, the windows wide open on those hot summer days – Lotte [Lazarsfeld, married Bailyn] behaving exceedingly well, nursing, sleeping and looking around. She was named after a girlfriend of Paul’s, a past, not the current one. From the beginning, he was a proud, utterly devoted father. With one hiccup: the day he took us both home to the Karl Marx Hof, he told me somewhat sheepishly that he had arranged to go away for a few days; would I mind? He went, and my mother [i.e. Betty Jahoda, née Propst] stayed with me instead, proud of her first grandchild.

Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 41–42.

© 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