Unruh, Fritz ˜vonœ 1885-1970

Friederike von Unruh (née Schaffer) was an actress and Fritz's wife; they married in 1940. Fritz and Friederike left Germany together in 1932, lived for a time in Italy and in France, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1940, where they lived in New York City. They lived in Germany again from 1952 to 1955 and then returned to the U.S. Alma Mahler mentions Unruh several times in her memoir Mein Leben. While he was serving in the military in World War I, she wrote to him in praise of his play Ein Geschlecht, and he responded with a poem (included here). They came into contact again in 1919, and from that point on Unruh had exchanges with Werfel as well. Wolff writes from Pantheon Books in New York City. Bitsch was the president of the Fritz von Unruh-Gesellschaft, which was apparently founded in 1955 in Giessen (West Germany).

From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1914-1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864683

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