Amelie Posse-Brázdová (11 February 1884, in
Stockholm – 3 March 1957) was a Swedish author. She is also known for her work against
nazism
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during
World War II
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.
Amelie Posse was the daughter of
Count
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Fredrik Arvidsson Posse and Auda Gunhild Wennerberg. She was married to the criminal psychologist
Andreas Bjerre in 1904–1912, with whom she had a son, Sören Christer Bjerre (1905-1967), who was declared insane in 1921
but eventually in adulthood became a journalist.
Following her 1912 divorce from Bjerre, she married the Czech artist
Oskar (nicknamed Oki) Brázda (1887–1977) from 1915, and became the mother of Bohuslav (Slavo) 9/13/1916-1991;RAF pilot) & the artist
Jan Brazda (12/4/1917-2012) with Brázda.
During her second marriage, she lived in the Vatican some 7 years,& then
Czechoslovakia
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on the manor
Líčkov. She became known as a democrat and a
pacifist in her work and was a friend of president
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It may refer to:
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia
* Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur
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. In 1938, she returned to Sweden after an order for her arrest had been issued by the
Gestapo
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. In 1940, she was one of the founders of the discussionclub
Tisdagsklubben ("The Tuesday Club") in
Stockholm. It was formally a discussion-club about culture, but its true purpose was to work against the expansion of nazism in Sweden. The club was in fact inaugurated the same day
Nazi Germany
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occupied
Norway
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, the 9 April 1940. Tisdagsklubben was to be used as the center of the Swedish resistance movement in the case Sweden was ever occupied by Nazi Germany. Amelie Posse was, like other members of the club, listed in German records as "Untrustworthy Swedes".
A tiny museum with Amelie Posse memorabilia can be found at Örenäs slott, close to Posse's childhood home (torn down), near Landskrona in south Sweden.
Bibliography
*''Den oförlikneliga fångenskapen'', 1931.
*''Den brokiga friheten'', 1932.
*''Ned med vapnen! En kampsignal mot kriget'', 1935.
*''Vidare'', 1936.
*''I begynnelsen var ljuset'', 1940.
*''Bygga upp, ej riva neder'', 1942.
*''Mellan slagen'', 1946.
*''Kring kunskapens träd'', 1946.
*''Kunskapens träd i blom'', 1946.
*''Åtskilligt kan nu sägas'', 1949.
*''Minnenas park'', 1954.
*''När järnridån föll över Prag'', a book posthmously published in 1968.
Barbro Alving
Barbro Alving (12 January 1909 – 22 January 1987) was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonym Bang. She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'' and the magazines '' Idun'' ...
edited the book before its publication.
Her work has been translated into English, Danish and Czech.
Sources
*Bokholm, Rune, ''Tisdagsklubben. Om glömda antinazistiska sanningssägare i svenskt 30-40-tal'', Atlantis förlag, Stockholm, 2001.
*Levander, Hans, "Posse-Brázdová, Amelie", ''Svenska män och kvinnor 6'',
Albert Bonniers Förlag
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History
Albert Bonnier ...
, Stockholm, 1949.
*Lövgren, Britta, "Posse, Amelie"'', Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon 143'', red Göran Nilzén, Stockholm 1996.
*Strömberg Krantz, Eva, ''En ande som hör jorden till: en bok om Amelie Posse'', Carlsson, Stockholm, 2010.
Further reading
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References
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1884 births
1957 deaths
Women in World War II
Swedish people of World War II
Swedish countesses
Swedish expatriates in the Czech Republic
Writers from Stockholm
Swedish women writers
20th-century Swedish women