Ruth Maier (1) (1920–1942)
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- Geboortedatum
- 1920-11-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1942-12-01
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Austria
Norway - Geboorteplaats
- Vienna, Austria
- Plaats van overlijden
- Auschwitz, Poland
- Woonplaatsen
- Norway
- Beroepen
- student
diarist - Relaties
- Hofmo, Gunvor (friend)
- Korte biografie
- Ruth Maier was born in Vienna to a largely assimilated Jewish family. She began keeping a diary at age 13. She wrote about everyday life and about deteriorating conditions for Austria's Jews following Nazi Germany's Anschluss (annexation) of 1938. Ruth's younger sister Judith managed to escape to the United Kingdom. Ruth was able to find temporary refuge in Norway in 1939. She became fluent in Norwegian and befriended the future modernist poet Gunvor Hofmo. Ruth served as a model for a Gustav Vigeland's sculpture called "Surprised" now on permanent display at the Vigeland Park in Oslo, and for a painting by Åsmund Esval. Ruth was arrested in November 1942 and deported to the death camp at Auschwitz, where she died. Gunvor Hofmo kept Ruth's diaries and much of her correspondence. In 1995, more than 50 years after her death, author Jan Erik Vold went through Ruth's papers and came upon her diary, which he published in 2007. The book was translated into English in 2009.
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Ruth Maiers dagbok : ett judiskt kvinnoöde door Ruth Maier
It's a strong book about a life in under the Nazi rule. You get to follow Ruth's life from a young girl into a intelligent, young woman. How she comes to a new country all by herself, and her growth into a young adult and all the questions, wishes and thoughts every human has. Her fears about the war and her thoughts about being a Jew.
This diary is actually closer to Anne Frank's than any of the other Holocaust diaries I've read. Both of these young women were, in my mind, quite ordinary girls. Quite bright, with perhaps a bit more than the usual literary/artistic talent, but not geniuses, and not the stuff of which history is made. They became history through the way they died, and the people they associated with. Otto Frank promoted Anne's diary aggressively. Ruth's best friend towards the end of her life, Gunvor Hofmo, became a famous poet and kept her diaries safe; it's highly doubtful whether they'd have been published without Ruth's association with Gunvor.
If you're looking for tortures and beatings and gas chambers, you don't find it in Ruth Maier's diary. Instead you see the growth and maturity of a young Austrian girl as the dark forces of Nazism close around her and her family. She is able to escape to Norway, but Hitler follows her even there -- and you get a not-often-seen glimpse of the Nazi Occupation and the Holocaust there. I think the diary was edited very well. The editor was able to trim nine years of entries and letters, something like 1100 pages, down to reasonable size without being overly repetitive or losing focus on Ruth's life.
This is a solid edition to the canon of Holocaust diaries.… (meer)
If you're looking for tortures and beatings and gas chambers, you don't find it in Ruth Maier's diary. Instead you see the growth and maturity of a young Austrian girl as the dark forces of Nazism close around her and her family. She is able to escape to Norway, but Hitler follows her even there -- and you get a not-often-seen glimpse of the Nazi Occupation and the Holocaust there. I think the diary was edited very well. The editor was able to trim nine years of entries and letters, something like 1100 pages, down to reasonable size without being overly repetitive or losing focus on Ruth's life.
This is a solid edition to the canon of Holocaust diaries.… (meer)
Den som åpner denne boka i den tro at den handler om Holocaust, vil mest sannsynlig bli skuffet. Derimot handler boka om den jødiske jenta Ruth Maier i årene før hun ble deportert til Auschwitz.
Jan Erik Vold har gjennomgått Ruths åtte dagbøker, som i tiden etter deportasjonen ble oppbevart av venninnen og lyrikeren Gunvor Hofmo. Samlingen er svært unik i norsk sammenheng.
Gjennom dagboknotatene blir vi kjent med Ruth. Hun var en svært begavet ung kvinne på mange områder. Ikke bare utmerket hun seg med en akademisk legning, men hennes evne til å formulere seg skriftlig viser at hun hadde talenter utenom det vanlige. Dessuten hadde hun talenter innen malekunst og tegning.
Ruths følelsesliv var svært sterkt. I tiden etter at hun kom som flyktning til Norge, holdt hun nesten på å forgå av en tyngende ensomhet. Etter et nervøst sammenbrudd hadde hun et opphold på en psykiatrisk avdeling. Med tiden kom hun til å erkjenne at hun var lesbisk og hun og Gunvor Hofmo hadde i en periode et kjærlighetsforhold.
Boka er - både takket være Ruth selv og ikke minst Jan Erik Vold som har sydd sammen alle dagboknotatene - nydelig og tidvis nesten poetisk. Det er en tragedie at hun på grunn av krigen og nazismen endte sitt liv i så ung alder, uten å få leve et fullverdig liv. Mest sannsynlig har verden gått glipp av en stor kunstner.… (meer)
Jan Erik Vold har gjennomgått Ruths åtte dagbøker, som i tiden etter deportasjonen ble oppbevart av venninnen og lyrikeren Gunvor Hofmo. Samlingen er svært unik i norsk sammenheng.
Gjennom dagboknotatene blir vi kjent med Ruth. Hun var en svært begavet ung kvinne på mange områder. Ikke bare utmerket hun seg med en akademisk legning, men hennes evne til å formulere seg skriftlig viser at hun hadde talenter utenom det vanlige. Dessuten hadde hun talenter innen malekunst og tegning.
Ruths følelsesliv var svært sterkt. I tiden etter at hun kom som flyktning til Norge, holdt hun nesten på å forgå av en tyngende ensomhet. Etter et nervøst sammenbrudd hadde hun et opphold på en psykiatrisk avdeling. Med tiden kom hun til å erkjenne at hun var lesbisk og hun og Gunvor Hofmo hadde i en periode et kjærlighetsforhold.
Boka er - både takket være Ruth selv og ikke minst Jan Erik Vold som har sydd sammen alle dagboknotatene - nydelig og tidvis nesten poetisk. Det er en tragedie at hun på grunn av krigen og nazismen endte sitt liv i så ung alder, uten å få leve et fullverdig liv. Mest sannsynlig har verden gått glipp av en stor kunstner.… (meer)
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