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Adrienne Thomas was the pseudonym of Hertha A. Deutsch, nee Strauch (1897–1980), a German autobiographical novelist.




Life


Hertha Strauch was born in St Avold in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of Germany, on 24 June 1897. She grew up bilingual in German and French, going to school in Metz, where her family owned a small department store. During World War I she became a nurse for the Red Cross, at first in Metz and later in Berlin, where her family moved. During the 1920s she trained as a singer and actor at the Clara Lion Conservatory in Frankfurt.
Writing as Adrienne Thomas, she drew on her Red Cross experiences for her semi-autobiographical anti-war novel Die Katrin wird Soldat (Katrin Becomes a Soldier), the diary of a young Jewish girl serving behind the German lines as a relief worker. Published in 1930, the book was translated into sixteen languages.
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Thomas was forced to go into exile, and her writings were banned. After living in Austria, France and the United States, she eventually settled in Vienna in 1947.




Works


Die Katrin wird Soldat: Ein Roman aus Elsass-Lothringen, Berlin: Propyläen, 1930
Translated by Margaret L. Goldsmith as Cathérine Joins Up, London: E. Mathews & Marrot, Ltd., 1931; Katrin becomes a Soldier, Boston: Little, Brown, 1931
Dreiviertel Neugier: Roman, 1934
Katrin! Die Welt brennt!: Roman, 1936
Translated by Marguerite Wolff as Child of Unrest, London: Hutchinston & Co., 1937
Andrea: eine Erzählung von jungen Menschen , 1937
Von Johanna zu Jane: Roman, 1939
Reisen Sie ab, Mademoiselle!, 1940
Ein Fenster am East River, 1947
Wettlauf mit dem Traum: Roman, 1949
Da und dort, 1950




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