Elisabeth Castonier
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Elisabeth Castonier (6 March 1894 - 24 September 1975) was a German writer.
Castonier was the daughter of the painter and spent her early childhood in Dresden until her family moved to Paris. Her grandfather was Jewish. In 1912 she moved to Berlin, and in 1923 married the Danish singer , from whom she later divorced. She wrote satires in the weekly paper Die Ente, but during the Nazi period she went in exile to Vienna and after the Anschluss in 1938 through Italy and Denmark to London. Here she wrote children's books and also a book about Christian opposition to the Nazis. In London she was also a correspondent for the News Chronicle and the New Statesman and also for emigrant newspapers like the Pariser Tageszeitung and the Wiener Tageblatt. In 1944 she worked as a farmhand in Hampshire. From 1950, she also corresponded regularly with , the widow of writer Kurt Tucholsky.
Works[]
- Frau, Knecht, Magd, 1932
- Eternal Front, London: James Clarke and Co. 1942
- Stürmisch bis heiter. Memoiren einer Außenseiterin, 1964
- German satirists
- German children's writers
- German women children's writers
- German women journalists
- 20th-century German women writers
- German non-fiction writers
- 1894 births
- 1975 deaths
- Writers from Dresden
- Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss
- 20th-century German journalists
- German writer stubs