Unica zurn biography of mahatma gandhi

Born in Berlin in 1916 to an upper-middle-class family, Unica Zürn’s early experiences were tinged by personal tragedy and emotional turmoil.

Her father’s absenteeism, her mother’s emotional coldness, and her brother’s incestuous violence would cast long, haunting shadows on her psyche and impact her eventual turn to automatic drawing.

During the 1930s, Zürn worked as a steno-typist and dramaturge for Universum-Film-AG (UFA), a film corporation appropriated by the Nazis for WWII propaganda films.

Her collaboration with an institution that furthered Nazi atrocities only intensified her enduring guilt and self-loathing.

Unica Zürn, Untitled, 1966.

Unica zurn biography of mahatma gandhi

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Her writing career Zürn began in the 1940s. Her short stories were imbued with existential themes and found modest success in German newspapers and radio stations. She married in 1942, and when the marriage ended in divorce seven years l