Ilse Reicke

[1][4] By this time she had already published, in 1914, her first substantial work, a volume of poetry entitled "Das schmerzliche Wunder" ("The painful miracle").

[2] It was also around this time that she started writing for Die Woche, the weekly news magazine: she continued as a contributor to it, frequently returning to the subject of marriage, till 1933.

Later she became the publisher of "Mutter und Kinderland" and of the year books "Wir sind jung" ("We are young") and "Herzblättchens Zeitvertreib", work which after her divorce enabled her to run her house and support her three daughters.

In October 1933 Ilse Reicke and her estranged husband were two of the eighty-eight German writers who signed the widely publicised (and subsequently infamous) Vow of loyal obedience ("Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft") to the leader.

Her first postwar book, which appeared only in 1952, was a biographical study of the pacifist writer Bertha von Suttner.