Lola Landau

Lola Landau, birth name: Leonore Landau (; December 3, 1892 - February 3, 1990) was a German and Israeli writer, poet, and dramatist. She wrote in German and was member of the .

Biography Leonore Landau was born in Berlin to a family of noted Jewish gynecologist Theodor Landau (brother of gynecologist Leopold Landau) and Philippine née Fulda. Among her ancestors was a noted scholar in halakha rabbi Yechezkel Landau. From October to February 1927/28 Landau and Wegner were among selected guests invited to the Soviet Union on the occasion of celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. Wegner wrote a travelogue book about this.

She moved to Palestine with her son Andreas and daughter Sybille in 1936 and settled in Jerusalem Her husband (while already having a romance with artist Irene Kowaliska) initially followed her, but being at ethnic German, could not live neither in Nazi Germany, nor in Palestine, so he decided to settle in Italy, and in 1939 they divorced. Afterwards Lola had a relationship with noted mathematician .

Books Positano oder Der Weg ins dritte Leben, Berlin : Verlag Das Arsenal, 1995, ISBN 3-921810-62-0 Vor dem Vergessen. Meine drei Leben ( Before oblivion. My three lives ), Berlin : Ullstein, 1992, ISBN 3-548-30285-8, an autobiography Leben in Israel, Deutsche Ausgabe: Marbach : Dt. Schillergesellschaft, 1987 Die zärtliche Buche, Bodman/Bodensee : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1980 Variationen der Liebe, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-8056-2104-3 Hörst du mich, kleine Schwester?, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1971, ISBN 3-8056-2103-5 Noch liebt mich die Erde, Bodman (Bodensee) : Hohenstaufen-Verlag, 1969 Abgrund, Berlin-Charlottenburg : Weltgeist-Bücher, (1926) Das Lied der Mutter, Charlottenburg : F. Lehmann, (1919)

Awards 1989: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany