Original Manuscripts By Anna Krommer And Books (daughter Of Helmut Krommer)

These items were safely stored in the home of her sister, Barbara.

Anna Krommer was born as the daughter of the journalist and artist Helmut Krommer (1891–1973) and Valerie Weisz (1895–1948); her mother's brother was the painter Arnold Peter Weisz-Kubínčan. She grew up in Berlin , where her father worked for the SPD newspaper Vorwärts .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the family fled to the Czech Republic , where they attended the German Girls' High School in Prague until March 1939, when Czechoslovakia was occupied and her father had to flee to Yugoslavia . In June 1939, her mother, her sister and she also fled to Great Britain . All of her mother's relatives were murdered as Jews by the Germans in concentration camps. From 1941 to 1944, Krommer attended the arts and crafts school at Guildford Technical College, Surrey , where the refugee poet Theodor Kramer also worked as a librarian, who influenced her poetic development and followed her path. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 1945 with a degree in drawing and art history .

In 1946/47 she worked as a letter censor for the US military authorities in Offenbach am Main and was in Israel in 1948 during the Palestine War . As a German speaker, she could no longer return to the Czech Republic, and her mother, who went to Theresienstadt as a social worker after the war , was also expelled from there. She emigrated from Great Britain to the USA with her father in 1951, but from Boston went back to Israel for a year to a kibbutz , where she wrote her first volume of poetry. From 1953 she lived in New York, from 1962 in Washington, and in 1957 she became a US citizen.

Krommer has written articles for the newspapers Aufbau and New Yorker Staatszeitung and has been published in the magazines Literatur undkritik and Frankfurter Hefte , among others .

In the archives of the Theodor Kramer Society in Vienna there is a partial estate of Krommer (2 boxes). [1]

Works (selection)
Dust of cities. Selected Poems . Ed. and introduction Sabine Prem. Afterword Walter Grünzweig . Drawings Peter AW Kubíncan. Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 1995
The rat house. novella . Bergland, Vienna 1976
Reflections. Lyrical poems . European publishing house, Vienna 1971
Galilee. Songs of a Settlement . European publishing house, Vienna 1955
Krommer's poems in: Alexander Emanuely , Judith Goetz , Thomas Wallerberger eds.: Exil. Literature and memory. A reading book. Theodor Kramer Society, Vienna 2012 ISBN 9783901602474 pp. 34–36 [2]
Krommer's poems in: Konstantin Kaiser, Miguel Herz-Kestranek , Daniela Strigl Eds.: In which language do you dream? Austrian exilic poetry. Anthology. Vienna 2007 ISBN 9783901602252
Krommer about Theodor Kramer , in Zwischenwelt 1: Beyond Kramer and back to him. Vienna 1990 ISBN 9783901602085
Herbert Kuhner , Alexander Emanuely, Konstantin Kaiser, Lydia Mischkulnig , Herbert Staud Eds.: "Wände ...- Walls ..." Austrian Jewish poetry. Austrian Jewish Poetry. Publishing house of the Theodor Kramer Society, Vienna 2015 ISBN 9783901602634 (bilingual)
Literature
Karl Müller: Lemma Anna Krommer. In: Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Vienna 2000, p. 90f Abg
Siglinde Bolbecher: Anna Krommer. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in German from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , p. 308f.
Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (ed.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 - International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 , p. 667
various authors with articles in the magazine of the Theodor Kramer Society : Zwischenwelt (formerly With the Concertina )
Katharina Hofbauer: "I can't do without my correspondence. Because for me it is life." Theodor Kramer in correspondence with Anna Krommer and Gretl Oplatek (married Kilroy, born 1922). University of Vienna , unprinted diploma thesis 2007, available from the Austrian Library Association
Web links
Literature by and about Anna Krommer in the German National Library catalog
Anna Krommer's legacy in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library

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