Else Ury

Else Ury
Born1 November 1877
Died13 January 1943 (aged 65)
Cause of deathGas poisoning
NationalityGerman
OccupationNovelist
Known forNesthäkchen Series and other books for girls

Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.

The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers.[1][2][3][4] During Ury's lifetime Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg (Nesthäkchen and the World War), the fourth volume, was the most popular.[5][6]

Else Ury was a member of the German Bürgertum (middle class). She was pulled between patriotic German citizenship and Jewish cultural heritage. This situation is reflected in her writings, although the Nesthäkchen books make no references to Judaism.[7][4] In 1943, Else Ury was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered upon her arrival.[8]

  1. ^ Patricia M. Mazón. Gender and the Modern Research University: The Admission of Women to German Higher Education, 1865–1914. Stanford University Press; 1 edition (August 4, 2003) pp 166-175
  2. ^ Marianne Brentzel. Nesthäkchen kommt ins KZ. FISCHER Taschenbuch; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (März 2003)
  3. ^ Barbara Asper. Wiedersehen mit Nesthäkchen: Else Ury aus heutiger Sicht. TEXTPUNKT Verlag; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (1. November 2007)
  4. ^ a b "Melissa Eddy. Overlooked No More: Else Ury's Stories Survived World War II. She Did Not. NY Times July 10, 2019". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  5. ^ "Kirkus Review of Nesthäkchen and the World War". Archived from the original on 2016-01-27. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  6. ^ "H-Net Review of Nesthäkchen and the World War". H-net.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  7. ^ Lüke, Martina. "Else Ury – A Representative of the German-Jewish Bürgertum. Not an Essence but a Positioning": German-Jewish Women Writers 1900-38. Eds. Godela Weiss-Sussex and Andrea Hammel. Martin Meidenbauer Verlag: München, 2009 and Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2009 (Publication of the Institute of Germanic Studies, 93). 77-93.
  8. ^ "PJ Grisar. Remembering Else Ury, Famed Children's Writer and Victim of the Holocaust. Forward July 17, 2019". Archived from the original on October 8, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.

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