Harry Kahn

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Harry Kahn (born 11 August 1883 in Mainz as Heinrich Kahn , died 18th July 1970 in Massagno , Switzerland ) was a German journalist , writer , screenwriter and translator .

Life

From 1902 Kahn worked for Max Reinhardt . From 1907 to 1930 he wrote first theater reviews for the weekly Die Weltbühne and later also film reviews. From 1914 to 1919 he published various books and dramas. In his review of 25 years of the world stage , Kurt Tucholsky praised Kahn's collaboration:

“Then there was Harry Kahn, who has been with us the longest. SJ called him the 'Samumist', or did he call himself ...? His temperament swept through the leaf like the desert wind; there are refreshing polemics, like the one against the blessed Kasimir Edschmid , a splendid achievement. "

- Kurt Tucholsky : Twenty-five years

From 1925 to 1926 Kahn was editor of the papers of the German theater . In the early 1930s he co-wrote several scripts. After the National Socialists came to power , he emigrated to France with Alice Meyer, the mother of Peter Morley and Anne Marie Meyer . Kahn was one of the authors of the German-language exile newspaper Pariser Tageblatt . Kahn and Meyer were interned in different camps in Marseille at the beginning of the Second World War . After escaping from custody, both came to Switzerland in 1943, where they first lived with a family in Winterthur and later in Massagno. After the war, Kahn translated numerous works by American authors from English into German, including those by John Steinbeck and William Faulkner .

He was married to Alice Meyer from the 1950s until his death.

Works

  • Victim. Novellas. Berlin 1914.
  • The ring. Comedy in four acts. Berlin 1916.
  • America. Munich 1917.
  • Noise. Comedy in four acts. Munich 1919.

Scripts:


Translations:

  • John Phillips Marquand : There is no going back. Baden-Baden / Stuttgart 1951.
  • Henry James : Master novels. Zurich 1953 (The Turn of the Screw; Aspern's estate).
  • John Steinbeck:
    • Money brings money. Frankfurt 1964.
    • Beyond Eden. Zurich 1953.
    • Happy Thursday. 3. Edition. Stuttgart / Constance 1956.
    • Let's play king. Zurich 1958.
  • William Faulkner: Reaching in the Dust. Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1951 (frequent new editions, most recently 2001).
  • Sinclair Lewis : The way the world is. Stuttgart 1955.
  • Geoffrey Gorer : The Americans. A study of the psychology of nations. Hamburg 1956.
  • Ayn Rand : The Eternal Well. Morgarten-Verlag, Zurich 1946.
  • Anthony Trollope : Doctor Thorne. Manesse, Zurich 1954.

items

  • The Friedrichs legend. In: Die Weltbühne 15 (1919), pp. 136-138.
  • Russian-Jewish theater. In: Die Weltbühne 24 (1928), pp. 609–610.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Kahn at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg, accessed on June 13, 2016
  2. ^ Kurt Tucholsky: Twenty-five years . In: Die Weltbühne , September 9, 1930, p. 377.
  3. ↑ a b c A Life Rewound: Memoirs of a freelance Producer and Director. Part One. (PDF) static.bafta.org; accessed on June 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahn, Heinrich (maiden name); Hertig, Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer, screenwriter and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 1970
Place of death Massagno , Switzerland