Margret Boveri
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Margret Antonie Boveri was one of the best-known German
journalists and writers of the post-WW2 period.
, Germany
, the daughter of German biologist Theodor Boveri
and American biologist Marcella O'Grady Boveri. Her father died in 1915 and her mother returned to the USA in 1925. She studied history and political science in Munich and Berlin. From 1934 she worked in the Foreign Affairs section of the Berliner Tageblatt
newspaper, where she was promoted by the editor, Paul Scheffer
.
From 1939 until 1943 (when the newspaper was banned) she worked as foreign correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung
newspaper in Stockholm
and New York
. She was awarded the War Service Medal by the Nazi Government in 1941; she herself was never a member of the Nationalist Socialist party. After the USA entered the war she was interned for a time in New York, before being returned, at her own request, to Europe. In May 1942 she arrived in Lisbon
, where she continued her work as correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung. While in Lisbon she became acquainted with the Swiss journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach
, who was to die shortly afterwards in an accident in Switzerland.
After the Frankfurter Zeitung
was banned by the German government in 1943, Boveri returned to Berlin, where her apartment was destroyed in an air strike. She then took took up work as a report writer in the German embassy in Madrid
before returning to Berlin in 1944 to work as a freelance writer with the National Socialist weekly Das Reich (newspaper)
.
After the war Boveri disapproved of the division of Germany by the Allies
into separate political zones, in which she was supported by Konrad Adenauer
, and she maintained her opposition to the division of Germany until the 1960s. In 1968 she was awarded the German Critics' Prize and in 1970 the Bundesverdienstkreuz
, the highest civilian honour in West Germany
, for promoting understanding between East and West Germany. Among her friends and acquaintances were Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
, Theodor Heuss
, Ernst von Weizsäcker
, Freya von Moltke
, Ernst Jünger
, Carl Schmitt
, Armin Mohler
, Gottfried Benn
und Uwe Johnson
.
She died in Berlin in 1975.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
journalists and writers of the post-WW2 period.
Life
Margret Boveri was born in WürzburgWürzburg
Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the daughter of German biologist Theodor Boveri
Theodor Boveri
-External links:* Fritz Baltzer. . excerpt from . University of California Press, Berkeley; pp. 85–97....
and American biologist Marcella O'Grady Boveri. Her father died in 1915 and her mother returned to the USA in 1925. She studied history and political science in Munich and Berlin. From 1934 she worked in the Foreign Affairs section of the Berliner Tageblatt
Berliner Tageblatt
The Berliner Tageblatt or BT was a German language newspaper published in Berlin from 1872-1939. Along with the Frankfurter Zeitung, it became one of the most important liberal German newspapers of its time.-History:...
newspaper, where she was promoted by the editor, Paul Scheffer
Paul Scheffer
Paul Scheffer is a Dutch author, professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and member of the Partij van de Arbeid....
.
From 1939 until 1943 (when the newspaper was banned) she worked as foreign correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung
Frankfurter Zeitung
The Frankfurter Zeitung was a German language newspaper that appeared from 1856 to 1943. It emerged from a market letter that was published in Frankfurt...
newspaper in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. She was awarded the War Service Medal by the Nazi Government in 1941; she herself was never a member of the Nationalist Socialist party. After the USA entered the war she was interned for a time in New York, before being returned, at her own request, to Europe. In May 1942 she arrived in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, where she continued her work as correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung. While in Lisbon she became acquainted with the Swiss journalist Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler.- Life :Annemarie was born in Bocken, near Zurich, Switzerland...
, who was to die shortly afterwards in an accident in Switzerland.
After the Frankfurter Zeitung
Frankfurter Zeitung
The Frankfurter Zeitung was a German language newspaper that appeared from 1856 to 1943. It emerged from a market letter that was published in Frankfurt...
was banned by the German government in 1943, Boveri returned to Berlin, where her apartment was destroyed in an air strike. She then took took up work as a report writer in the German embassy in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
before returning to Berlin in 1944 to work as a freelance writer with the National Socialist weekly Das Reich (newspaper)
Das Reich (newspaper)
Das Reich was a weekly newspaper founded by Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich, in May 1940...
.
After the war Boveri disapproved of the division of Germany by the Allies
Allies
In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them...
into separate political zones, in which she was supported by Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
, and she maintained her opposition to the division of Germany until the 1960s. In 1968 she was awarded the German Critics' Prize and in 1970 the Bundesverdienstkreuz
Bundesverdienstkreuz
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany is the only general state decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has existed since 7 September 1951, and between 3,000 and 5,200 awards are given every year across all classes...
, the highest civilian honour in West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
, for promoting understanding between East and West Germany. Among her friends and acquaintances were Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901....
, Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss was a liberal German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II from 1949 to 1959...
, Ernst von Weizsäcker
Ernst von Weizsäcker
Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943, and as German Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945...
, Freya von Moltke
Freya von Moltke
Freya von Moltke was a participant in the anti-Nazi resistance group, the Kreisau Circle, with her husband, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke...
, Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger was a German writer. In addition to his novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience during World War I. Some say he was one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I...
, Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, and professor of law.Schmitt published several essays, influential in the 20th century and beyond, on the mentalities that surround the effective wielding of political power...
, Armin Mohler
Armin Mohler
Armin Mohler was a Swiss-born far right political writer and philosopher associated with the Neue Rechte movement.-Life:Born in Basel, Mohler studied at the University of Basel where for a time he supported communism...
, Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution...
und Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar.- Life :Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania . His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern...
.
She died in Berlin in 1975.
Works
- Das Weltgeschehen am Mittelmeer, Zurich 1936
- Vom Minarett zum Bohrturm. Eine politische Biographie Vorderasiens, Zurich and Leipzig 1939
- Ein Auto, Wüsten, blaue Perlen. Bericht über eine Reise durch Vorderasien, Leipzig 1939
- modern edition: Wüsten, Minarette und Moscheen. Im Auto durch den alten Orient. Berlin, wjs 2005, ISBN 3-937989-06-4
- Amerika-Fibel für erwachsene Deutsche, Berlin 1946 (modern edition: Berlin (Landt) 2006, ISBN 3-938844-03-5
- 16 Fenster und 8 Türen, Berlin 1953
- Der Verrat im XX. Jahrhundert, 4 Volumes, Hamburg 1956–1960
- Wir lügen alle. Eine Hauptstadtzeitung unter Hitler, Olten and Freiburg im Breisgau 1965
- Tage des Überlebens. Berlin 1945, Munich 1968. Modern edition: Berlin, wjs 2004, ISBN 3-937989-01-3
- Erinnerte Mutmaßungen, in: Neue Deutsche Hefte 16, 205–208, 1969
- Die Deutschen und der Status Quo, Munich 1974
- Verzweigungen. Eine Autobiographie, published by Uwe JohnsonUwe JohnsonUwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar.- Life :Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania . His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern...
, Munich 1977
modern edition: Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 1996, ISBN 3-518-39076-7