Bio:Hilde Rubinstein
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Rubinstein grew up as the oldest daughter in a family where her father had emigrated from Czarist Russian, receiving German citizenship 1914. Hilde had an artistic education in Cologne, at the Bauhaus in Weimar and at the art academy in Düsseldorf. She had a debut exhibition in the mid-1920s. She joined the German Communist party in 1929, was involved in the resistance against the Nazi party, and was jailed in 1933 where she was held for a year and a half. She then emigrated in 1934 via Belgium and the Netherlands, and then to Sweden in 1935. She lived in the Soviet Union from 1936-7, but was arrested as a Troskyite courier. She was then supposed to be extradited to the German Reich, but managed to escape during transport while in Warsaw. She then fled from Poland across Latvia to Sweden again.
In Sweden she initially had various temporary work, then worked as a painter and writer. After the war, she remained in Sweden, living in Göteborg until 1982 when she returned to Germany.
Rubinstein published at least 9 books, including poetry, essays, and a play, but is best known for her science fiction novel "Atomskymning" (In English, "Atomic Dusk" or "Nuclear Twilight"), which was published originally in Swedish and later in German.
Additional information on Rubinstein is available in:
- Budke, Petra & Jutta Schulze, Schriftstellerinnen in Berlin 1871 bis 1945: Ein Lexikon zu Leben und Werk, 1995;
- Renate Wall (ed.), Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftstellerinnen im Exil, 1995.