Gabriele Tergit Estate

Gabriele Tergit (alias name for Elise Reifenberg, née Hirschmann, 1894-1982) was born in Berlin on March 4, 1894. She achieved fame as a court reporter and author of the metropolitan novel "Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm." She emigrated in 1933 via Czechoslovakia and Palestine to Great Britain where she lived from 1938 on. From 1957 to 1981 she was Secretary of the P.E.N. Center of German-speaking Authors Abroad.

Gabriele Tergit died in London in 1982. Parts of her estate are held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach (German Literature Archive) and in the Exilarchiv der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (Exile Archive of the German National Library).

In 2014, the previously completely unknown part of her estate, which had been found in an attic in central England, came to the Moses Mendelssohn Center.  It contains letters from family members, personal documents and newspaper articles. The collection of about 4,500 sheets was restored in 2015 and is currently being cataloged.