Hilde Eisler
| Hilda Eisler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brunhilde Rothstein 28 January 1912 Ternopil, Galicia, Austro-Hungary |
| Died | 8 October 2000 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Political activist Journalist Managing editor () |
| Political party |
KPD SED |
| Spouse(s) | Gerhart Eisler (1897–1968) |
| Parent(s) | Salo Vogel-Rothstein (?-1942) |
Hilde Eisler (born Brunhilde Rothstein: 28 January 1912 – 8 October 2000) was a political activist and journalist. In 1956 she took over as editor in chief of , a lifestyle and fashion magazine in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), noteworthy according to Eisler herself when interviewed in 1988 as the first and for some years the only magazine in East Germany to feature nude pictures.
Eisler is sometimes described as a German journalist of Jewish provenance. She was born in what was, at the time, the Austro-Hungarian empire. Because of the frontier changes mandated in 1919, as a young woman she carried not a German or Austrian passport, but a Polish one. She did come from a Jewish family, though on account of her non-stereotypical blonde hair and blue eyes this was not immediately obvious to Gestapo officers and other government officials with whom, usually on account of her record of Communist involvement, she came into contact after the Nazi power seizure of 1933. She spent most of 1935 in prison and escaped into exile from Germany in 1936.
During the late 1940s, when she was living in the United States, her communist background (along with her acquisition by this time of a communist husband) attracted unwelcome intervention in her life from those who took their political lead from Senator McCarthy. At the end of June 1949 she was expelled from New York and returned to Berlin.
Brunhilde Rothstein was born in Ternopil, a major city and administrative centre in the eastern part of Galicia which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Her father was a merchant, and it was in connection with his work that when she was six months old the family relocated to Antwerp in Belgium. Two years after that war broke out and her father was conscripted into the Austrian army (but would survive the experience). Her mother now found herself identified as an enemy alien and in 1914 the two of them moved again, this time to Frankfurt am Main in Germany, where her mother's parents had been based for many years. It was in Frankfurt that Brunhilde Rothstein grew up, in moderately comfortable circumstances. She attended the city's Jewish lyceum (secondary school) and was a member of the Jewish Pathfinder Association. She would later describe her childhood in Frankfurt as "beautiful and protected" (" ... eine schöne und behütete Kindheit").
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