Because the writer has a Nazi past, the Ina-Seidel-Weg in Starnberg is given an additional sign.
The city councils have now agreed on this.
Starnberg - "German writer (1885-1974), controversial today because of her literary work under National Socialism": This is the text of the additional signs that supplement the signs for the Ina-Seidel-Weg in Starnberg.
The main and finance committee of the city council unanimously agreed on the wording this week.
For this purpose, a QR code is to be developed and attached, which interested parties can use to access further information about Ina Seidel on the city's website by smartphone.
It is the end of a discussion that first began in 2013 and then again later this year.
Ina Seidel was born in Halle an der Saale in 1885, grew up in Braunschweig and, after several other positions, lived with her family in Starnberg from 1934.
During her lifetime, in 1959, the city named a connecting road between Jahnstrasse and Prinzenweg after the writer.
In addition, she was made an honorary citizen in 1970.
In addition to poems and novels, she also wrote eulogies for Adolf Hitler during the Nazi era, from which she distanced herself after the end of the war.
The Greens had started the critical examination of Ina Seidel
The Greens had started the critical examination of Ina Seidel.
The city council rejected the renaming of the street in July, but at the same time supported the critical comments.
Christoph Aschermann from the city archive has now worked out the formulation.
The addition was "very useful from a historian's point of view," he said.
Winfried Wobbe (UWG) thought the formulation reads “too negative”.
He wanted another, more positive sentence about Seidel.
For Kerstin Täubner-Benicke (Greens), the formulation did not go far enough.
She missed a clear evaluation, after all, Seidel wrote “Elogen auf den Führer” during the Third Reich.
Not only archivist Aschenbrenner found it too much to put all of this on a small sign under a street sign.
He also warned against too close conclusions.
“We cannot finally clarify who Ina Seidel was,” he said.
That is more of a topic for a doctoral thesis.
In any case, the city archives had plenty of material on Ina Seidel and would be happy to give interested parties a look.