Lily Ruth Waldapfel (verh. Hull)

Born:	04-11-1919
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Lily Ruth WALDAPFEL (married HULL), born on April 11^th, 1919 in Vienna/Austria (entitled residency ('heimatberechtigt') for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), daughter of Arthur Waldapfel (engineer), lived in Vienna 9^th district, Berggasse 14. Her father was in the 1920s head engineer and agent of the "Oesterreichische Baugesellschaft" (Austrian construction company), until he followed architect Clemens Holzmeister to Turkey, where they built nearly the whole of the new government district in Ankara (he was head of the local planning office). Lily Waldapfel spent her summers with her father in Turkey. After she had graduated from high school (Maedchen-Realgymnasium der Gesellschaft der Schwarzwald‘schen Schulanstalten in Vienna 1^st district, Wallnerstrasse 9) she began to study at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna, was enrolled in fall term 1937/38 at the in the 1^st year of her studies and took courses in Chemistry and Physics.

After the annexion of Austria in 1938 Lily Waldapfel was able to emigrate from Austria and moved to her father in Turkey. When World War II started in September 1939, she was visiting her mother in the USA and decided to stay there. She first studied dancing, singing and acting in New York, but also completed a technical education and then worked alternately in a technical job and as a fashion designer. She died on May 31^st, 2014 in New York.
Lit.: POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 494; Interview with Lily Hull (2006), in: DerStandard.at; Steffen Mensching,   Schermanns Augen, Göttingen 2018.

Katharina Kniefacz