NAZI RULE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 5 June 1937, Page 7

NAZI RULE

BACK TO THE HOME The Place For Women Berlin, May 14 Back to the home is the Nazi rule for women. To become a wife and mother is presented as Che ideal lor the German girl. However, when talent does show itself, it should not be repressed, according to the “Illus_ trierler whiesh in a late issue prints the pictures of ten women who have won recognition in their fields, and are declared to be the only women so far to have attained it. Five of them are active in the artistic world and the others are skilled in some soj-t of industry. In the first group are a saxophone solois'i, a superintendent of an open air theatre, a conductor of regular concerts in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a professor of old music in Berlin, and a film director. Leni Riefcnsthal, the film director, filmed the Reichs party congress and the Olympic Games. She epjoys the special protection of Reischsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, whom she recognised as leader even before he bi'camo the supreme master of Germany. Leni is not in 'the limelight just at present. Rumours assert that experts convinced the Fuehrer that her art is not as great as she hoped. Her film of the Nuernberg party congress of 1936 has not been shown If it pleases the Fuehrer Leni will again come to the fore. Ingrid Larsen plays the saxophone as a solo instrument. She is a pr<A*,y Nordic blonde. Her advice for reaching success is “hard work, serious study, untiring practice.” Else Rassow directs an open air theatre. Woman Conductor. The Hungarian violinist, Marta Linz, has the honour of being one of the very few women occasionally conducting tihe Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra or the Hungarian Orchestra in Berlin. Most homes in Berlin which boast of a musical salon, at some time or other have formed' the setting for the display of the great art of golden-haired Marta Linz.

Eta Harich-Schneider is the only German woman professor of old music. She Waehes in the Berlin State Academic Music Institute, gives special training classes for the harpsichord, and lectures on the technique of the oldest key instrument.

Then in the industrial world five other women have won officiali recognition. Sturdy Hanna Reitsch, from Hirschberg, in Silesia, is Germany’s only regularly employed woman aeroplane pilot. With sieves -rolled up to her elbows, she- knows how to test a motor. t» Master Locksmith. From the old university town of Tuebingen comes Gertrude MeierWeiss, the only locksmith master in Germany. Recently she married a sergeant-major, but this doesn’t prevent her from donning now and then her working togs and helping her lather whenever he is short a hand'. With her short, dark hair brushed smoothly back from her face, she concentrates seriously oh her locksmithing.

Charlotte Poeschke, too, followed her father’s profession. She is a potter in Cottbus, and has not a single rival among all the women in Germany. She looks like a boy in her potter s. outfit,,round cap on the back of her head, blue potters shirt, and «iih loose sports trousers gathered at the ankle and wooden slippers. Krna Dietrich is carrying on a hun-flred-year-old 'tradition of her family Although she trained to enter welI-. re work, she changed t.o ivory’ cut-, bug upon the death of her father and is now the only woman ivory cutter master in her country. Pleasant and efficient, she wears white aprons and handles her machines with skilled hands.

Romance and work were combined by Luise Kaske in Zerpenschleuse in the Mark. She mastered the profes Bion of electric installation and auto mechanics, and then she married her teacher.