Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rodríguez, the second or maternal family name is Carballeira.
Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira
B&W portrait photograph of a standing, middle-aged woman, wearing a dress, holding a cat.
(1933)
BornApril 23, 1879
Ferrol, A Coruña, Spain
DiedDecember 28, 1955(1955-12-28) (aged 76)
Ciempozuelos, Spain
Known forMurdered her teenage daughter whom she conceived as a eugenics experiment.

Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira (Ferrol, A Coruña, April 23, 1879 – Ciempozuelos, Community of Madrid, December 28, 1955) was a Spanish woman who is remembered as the mother of Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, a girl she conceived as a scientific experiment and who, according to Aurora's wishes, was to represent the woman of the future.

Biography[edit]

Although she lied about her age, and many versions circulate, it is believed that Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira was born in 1879,[1] in the family home on Magdalena street, in Ferrol, A Coruña, Spain. Her parents were Francisco Rodríguez Arriola (b. 1833) and Anna Carballeira Lopes.[2] She was raised by a doting father in upper class, eccentric circumstances.[3]

Faced with the lack of a formal education that she always regretted (and that would be one of the reasons given for her daughter to complete the work for which her mother was not prepared), Aurora replaced it with readings from her father's abundant library, liberal and progressive ideas, fundamentally utopian socialists.

When Aurora's sister Josefa had a son, Pepito Arriola, and left him in the care of Aurora (who was sixteen years old), she educated him until he became a child prodigy, at which time Pepito was claimed by his mother and taken to Madrid, where he had enormous success as a musician. This fact strengthened Aurora's reformist and eugenic ideas, in addition to her concerns for women's rights, and led her to conceive the project of raising a woman in optimal conditions who would become an example of Aurora's ideas. She looked for a father who could never claim paternity of the future baby. According to Professor María Rosa Cal Martínez, who established the identities with arguments, it was a Lleida military priest named Alberto Pallás. Aurora had three sexual encounters with him[4] as a "physiological collaborator" until, being sure of the pregnancy, Aurora moved to Madrid to give her daughter the life Aurora had prepared for her.

The 1934 trial of Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira for the death of her daughter Hildegart.

The experiment initially met Aurora's expectations. Hildegart became an international personality, until the freedom in which she was brought up led Hildegart to a deep political commitment and an attempt to separate from her mother. Aurora, inspired by madness (an alleged conspiracy to ruin her eugenic experiment) and the fear of losing her daughter, killed Hildegart on June 9, 1933, by shooting her four times while the teenager was sleeping.[1] Aurora never regretted Hildegart's murder and repeated that she would do it again. Aurora was sentenced to 26 years in prison, serving most of it in the Ciempozuelos psychiatric asylum.[5]

Until her medical records were found in 1977, Aurora was believed to have disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, but she actually died of cancer in the Ciempozuelos psychiatric facility on December 28, 1955.[2] She was buried in a mass grave.

Works inspired by her life[edit]

Literary[edit]

  • Guzmán, Eduardo de (1972). Aurora de sangre: vida y muerte de Hildegart (in Spanish). Madrid: Gregorio del Toro.
  • Azcona, Rafael (1977). Aurora de sangre o La virgen roja: guión cinematográfico (in Spanish). Los autores. (Screenplay for the film by Fernán Gómez based on the novel by Eduardo de Guzmán.)
  • Llarch Roig, Joan, Hildegart, la virgen roja, Barcelona, Producciones editoriales, 1979.
  • Hackl, Erich, Auroras Anlaß, Diogenes Verlag, Zúrich 1987 ISBN 3257017340
  • Arrabal, Fernando (1987). La virgen roja (in Spanish). Seix Barral. ISBN 978-84-322-0564-4.
  • Rendueles, Guillermo (1989). El manuscrito encontrado en Ciempozuelos: análisis de la historia clínica de Aurora Rodríguez (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Piqueta. ISBN 978-84-7731-023-5. (Study of Aurora's clinical history at the Ciempozuelos hospital.)
  • Cal Martínez, María Rosa, A mí no me doblega nadie: Aurora Rodríguez, su vida y su obra (Hildegart), Ediciós do Castro, Sada (La Coruña), 1991. ISBN 84-7492-542-8
  • Domingo, Carmen, Mi querida hija Hildegart, ed. Destino, 2008. ISBN 8423340287
  • Martini, Antonietta, Infierno: Ribellarsi al Destino. Traduzione e studio de La virgen roja di Fernando Arrabal, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, Saarbrücken, 2014. ISBN 9783639656923
  • Grandes, Almudena (2020). La madre de Frankenstein: agonía y muerte de Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira en el apogeo de la España nacionalcatólica, Manicomio de mujeres de Ciempozuelos, Madrid, 1954-1956 (in Spanish). Tusquets. ISBN 978-987-670-609-4. (It is the fifth novel in the Episodes of an Endless War series.)

Film[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Ventura, Dalia. "La extraordinaria historia de Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, la española que engendró una "hija perfecta" y terminó asesinándola". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira – Female – 23 April 1879 – 28 December 1955". familysearch.org. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ Brownmiller, Susan (13 April 1989). "Radical feminism is basis of thriller". Chicago Tribune. p. 79. Retrieved 19 July 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Sinclair, Alison (1 May 2007). Sex and Society in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-2470-7. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Madrid Woman Sent to Asylum". The Waterbury Democrat. 27 December 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 19 July 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b Bravo, Edu (28 December 2018). "Aurora Rodríguez, la peor madre del mundo era española". Vanity Fair.
  7. ^ Las críticas: Hildegart o el proyecto Superwoman, de Barbara Caspar
  8. ^ Pozo, José Carlos (14 June 2023). "Najwa Nimri y Alba Planas protagonizarán Hildegart, la nueva película de Prime Video basada en hechos reales". HobbyConsolas.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Alvarellos, Enrique (1993). Mulleres destacadas de Galicia. Alvarellos Editora. ISBN 84-85311-96-5.
  • Cal Martínez, María Rosa (1991). A mí no me doblega nadie: Aurora Rodríguez, su vida y su obra (Hildegart). Sada (La Coruña): Ediciós do Castro, 2010, ISBN 978-84-8485-301-5.
  • De Guzmán Espinosa, Eduardo. Aurora de sangre, Madrid: Gregorio del Toro, 1972.
  • Marco, Aurora (2007). Dicionario de Mulleres Galegas. Edicións A Nosa Terra. ISBN 978-84-8341-146-9.
  • Montero, Rosa (1998). Historias de mujeres (in Spanish) (18 ed.). Madrid: Extra Alfaguara. pp. 181-93. ISBN 84-204-8301-X.
  • Rendueles Olmedo, Guillermo. El manuscrito encontrado en Ciempozuelos: análisis de la historia clínica de Aurora Rodríguez Madrid: Endymion, 1989, ISBN 978-84-7731-023-5.
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