# Else Feldmann > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Else_Feldmann > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Else_Feldmann.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Feldmann > Source revision: 1344988221 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian writer (1884–1942)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand German|topic=bio|Else Feldmann|date=December 2009}} {{one source|date=December 2009}} }} '''Else Feldmann''' (25 February 1884 – 1942) was an Austrian [writer](/source/writer), [playwright](/source/playwright), [poet](/source/poet), [socialist](/source/socialist) [journalist](/source/journalist), and victim of the [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust). She grew up in [Leopoldstadt](/source/Leopoldstadt) as the daughter of poor [Jewish](/source/Jewish) parents with her six siblings. She wrote a strongly autobiograhical book titled "Dandelion. A childhood", which describes her childhood in 1920s Vienna, her relationships with her siblings and parents, and her initial encounters with art and literature. "Dandelion" portrays working-class people at that time, and illustrates how difficult it is to improve one's lot when one is poor.{{Cite web |title=Else Feldmann: Dandelion. A Childhood ... - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism |url=https://www.nationalfonds.org/detail-view/6536 |access-date=2026-01-15 |website=www.nationalfonds.org |language=en}} She attended college, but after her father lost his job she was forced to leave school to work in a factory. In 1908, she became a contributor to the [socialist](/source/socialist) newspaper ''[Arbeiter-Zeitung](/source/Arbeiter-Zeitung_(Vienna))'' and went on to co-found a socialist writers group, ''Vereinigung sozialistischer Schriftsteller'', with Jewish socialist poet [Josef Luitpold Stern](/source/Josef_Luitpold_Stern), [communist](/source/communist) author, poet, [essayist](/source/essayist), and [songwriter](/source/songwriter) [Fritz Brügel](/source/Fritz_Br%C3%BCgel), Jewish [anarchist](/source/anarchist) and socialist [lyricist](/source/lyricist) and poet [Theodor Kramer](/source/Theodor_Kramer), and early [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) author [Rudolf Brunngraber](/source/Rudolf_Brunngraber).''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WMFPD5j7PMsC&dq=%22else+feldmann%22+cofounder&pg=PA83 Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers]'', Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. 1997. Feldmann was able to develop stories from her articles into novels to reach a wider audience with her socialist message. She began working full-time for the ''Arbeiter-Zeitung'' in 1923 until the newspaper, along with other socialist and [communist](/source/communist) political activity, was forbidden by the [austrofascist](/source/Austrofascism) [Fatherland Front Party](/source/Fatherland_Front_(Austria)) in 1934. On 14 June 1942 Feldman was captured by the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo) and sent to [Sobibór extermination camp](/source/Sobib%C3%B3r_extermination_camp), where she was murdered. == Books == * ''Lowenzahn: Eine Kindheit'' * ''Liebe ohne Hoffnung'' * ''Der Leib der Mutter'' * ''Martha und Antonia'' == References == {{reflist}} {{Sobibor extermination camp}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Feldmann, Else}} Category:1884 births Category:1942 deaths Category:Austrian women poets Category:Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust Category:Austrian people who died in Sobibor extermination camp Category:Austrian civilians killed in World War II Category:People from Leopoldstadt Category:20th-century Austrian women writers Category:20th-century Austrian writers Category:20th-century Austrian journalists Category:Jewish dramatists and playwrights Category:Executed journalists {{Austria-writer-stub}} {{Jewish-hist-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Else Feldmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Feldmann) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Feldmann?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.