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Elisabeth Langgässer (23 February 1899 – 25 July 1950) was a German author and teacher. She is known for lyrical poetry and novels. Her short story ''Saisonbeginn'', for example, provides a graphically human portrayal of a 1930s German Alpine village erecting a sign forbidding the entry of Jews. Langgässer was born in Alzey. In the last free elections in March 1933 Langgässer voted for Adolf Hitler,〔Ernst Klee: ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353.〕 but then during the Third Reich she was considered a "half-Jew" and therefore expelled from the ''Reichsschrifttumskammer'' (writer's union) in 1936. Langgässer's daughter with a married Jewish man Hermann Heller, Cordelia, spent the war years in Auschwitz after her mother's attempt to improve her racial status by marrying her to a Catholic army officer from Spain failed. Told that a confession would save her mother from prosecution, the 12-year-old Cordelia willingly went to live in a ghetto hospital. After surviving the Holocaust, she joined her mother in Sweden. Langgässer had been deemed "non-Aryan" (her father had converted from Judaism), but had subsequently upgraded her status to "German" by marrying a German with SS connections. Cordelia resisted the pressure from her mother to provide material for a death camp memoir, and married and had several children with a Swedish Protestant, becoming Cordelia Edvardson; quite unexpectedly, she emigrated to Israel at the height of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and wrote a searing autobiography, 'Burnt Child Seeks the Fire.'〔Lang, Berel, ed. Writing and the Holocaust, NYC: Holmes & Meyer, 1989, contribution by Raul Hilberg〕 Elisabeth Langgässer became a noted Catholic author. As such she was an influence on Pope Benedict XVI in his early years. Langgässer died in Karlsruhe. ==See also== * Christa Wolf 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elisabeth Langgässer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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