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Max Zweig (born June 22, 1892 in Prossnitz , Austria-Hungary ; died January 5, 1992 in Jerusalem ) was an Austrian-Israeli playwright .
Life / work
After studying law, which he completed with a doctorate, Zweig lived as a freelance writer in Vienna and Berlin. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in Germany, he had to emigrate to Prague in 1934 . From there he fled to Tel Aviv in 1938 into involuntary exile - he never learned Hebrew there, for fear of losing his literary ability to express himself in German through intensive occupation with another language.
Max Zweig was a cousin of Stefan Zweig . After the death of his first wife Margarete, he married the Swiss harpist Wilhelmine Bucherer , but the marriage was not recognized in the State of Israel due to Bucherer's refusal to convert to Judaism.
Anthologies
Dramas, Gesammelte Werke 1, Igel Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-89621-048-3 The Abyss, Medea in Prague, Lorenzo Moreno's decision, Israel! What now? Ed. And epilogue Eva Reichmann.
Dramas, Gesammelte Werke 2, Igel Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89621-092-0 The Moloch, The German Bartholomew Night, Warsaw Ghetto, The Damned, Rebellion of the Heart, Ed. And Afterword Eva Reichmann.
Dramas, Gesammelte Werke 3, Igel Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89621-093-9 Elimelech and the disciples, Die Marannen, Davidia, Saul, ed. Eva Reichmann, epilogue Armin A. Wallace.
Dramas, Gesammelte Werke 4, Igel Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89621-119-6 Morituri, Lilith, Franziskus, Pia Cameron, Das Wunder der Hilarius, ed. And epilogue Eva Reichmann.
Dramen, Gesammelte Werke 5, Igel Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89621-120-X Ragen, St. Helena, Rasputin, Tolstoy's Captivity and Flight, The Secretary General, Ed. Eva Reichmann, Afterword Armin A. Wallace.
Autobiography
- Life memories. Bleicher Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-88350-655-9 .
- Autobiographical and scattered writings from the estate. Collected Works 6, Igel Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89621-155-2 , ed. Eva Reichmann.
Memberships (selection)
literature
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 276f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
- Eva Reichmann: Zweig, Max. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 564f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Zweig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Max Zweig in the German Digital Library
- Max Zweig - A lived century on YouTube
- Video Max Zweig and Wilhelmine Bucherer on YouTube
- Max Zweig in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Branch, max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Israeli playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prossnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1992 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |