ISE GROPIUS | Jana Revedin

This episode of "bauhaus faces“ is not about a typical Bauhäusler, not a student or a master. She nevertheless played crucial part in documenting the history of the Bauhaus between 1923 and 1928 in her diary. Of course she was also Walter Gropius’s closest confidant, advisor, and editor, his wife, Ise Gropius.

Ise Gropius entered the service of the Bauhaus as a secretary, editor, organizer and ‘equal partner’ for Gropius. Soon, she became “Mrs. Bauhaus” and liked her role very much. „The Bauhaus infected me,“ she would later say.

For this episode the architect and author Jana Revedin helps to tell the story of Ise Gropius. She wrote a biographical novel called "Jeder hier nennt mich Frau Bauhaus“. The novel is based on Ise Gropius as a main character and her diary that she kept during her stay at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1928.

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JANA REVEDIN
NOVEL "JEDER HIER NENNT MICH FRAU BAUHAUS"

ARTICLES ABOUT ISE GROPIUS Unknown author: "Ise Frank Gropius, Archivist Of Bauhaus Founder's Work", The New York Times, 1983 Anja Guttenberger: "Ise Gropius", 2015 Jana Münkel: "Ise Gropius – Partnerin auf Augenhöhe", Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2019 Ursula Muscheler: Mutter, Muse und Frau Bauhaus. Die Frauen um Walter Gropius, Berenberg Verlag, 2018 Gropius House: Ise Gropius Biographical Timeline

FILMS WITH ISE GROPIUS „Wie wohnen wir gesund und wirtschaftlich: Neues Wohnen“  Historic New England: Walter Gropius: His New World Home, narrated by Ise Gropius, 1970 Katy Kelleher: "The forgotten story of 'Mrs. Bauhaus'", 2018