Raoul Auernheimer

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Raoul Auernheimer (born April 15, 1876 in Vienna , † January 6, 1948 in Oakland , California , USA ) was an Austrian lawyer, journalist and writer from the heyday of the Viennese feuilleton.

life and work

Registration card from Raoul Auernheimer as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau

He was born as the son of the German businessman Johann Wilhelm Auernheimer and his Hungarian wife Charlotte (Jenny) Büchler. After completing his law degree, he first worked as a court assessor at a Viennese court. In 1906 he married Irene Guttmann (born March 6, 1880 in Budapest, died 1967), with whom he had a daughter. As the great cousin of Theodor Herzl , who died shortly before, he was offered a position as editor of the Neue Freie Presse that same year . He held her until 1933, as he had quickly become a respected columnist and critic. He also made his debut with dramas - mostly comedies - and stories, but without making a “breakthrough”. In Vienna he frequented the circles of Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Stefan Zweig , Jakob Wassermann and Arthur Schnitzler . The latter judges a work: "Fine, hard-working, but still slight". From 1923 Auernheimer was first president and then vice-president of the Austrian PEN Club . Although he was neither a wealthy nor a “Bolshevik” Jew, Auernheimer was arrested in March 1938 and deported from Vienna to the concentration camp in Dachau on the transport of celebrities . Soon afterwards, the Consul General of the USA, Raymund Geist , intervened against Auernheimer's abduction on the basis of a petition from the writer Emil Ludwig . Released at the end of 1938, Auernheimer and his family were able to emigrate to New York via Venice in early 1939. He died in Oakland, California in 1948 at the age of 71.

In 1960 Vienna's Auernheimergasse (in the 22nd district) was named after him.

Some of his estate can be found in the Vienna City Hall Library , at the University of Riverside in California and in family ownership. The only living granddaughter gave this part to the Vienna Thomas Sessler publishing house for recycling.

For Alfred Zohner, the “fake” Viennese was nevertheless completely “under the spell of traditionalism”; the most appropriate term for his work is amiable . His strengths as an author lay in the field of novels and comedy.

Works

  • Talent , comedy, 1899
  • Roses We Can't Reach , Novellas and Sketches, 1901
  • Renée. Seven Chapters of a Woman's Life , 1902
  • Lebemänner , novella, 1903
  • The lovers , short stories and sketches, 1904
  • The great passion , comedy, 1904
  • The Lady in the Mask , Dialoge, 1905
  • The Anxious Dodo , Novellas, 1907
  • You Don't Marry , Novellas, 1908
  • The happiest time , comedy, 1909
  • The cast-iron Lord God , short stories, 1911
  • The couple after the fashion , comedy, 1913
  • Laurenz Haller's Praterfahrt , short story, 1913
  • The Allied Powers , comedy, 1915
  • Hearts in suspension . Novellas, 1916
  • The True Face , Novellas, 1916
  • The Secret Man , narrative, 1918
  • The Elderly Vienna , essay, 1919
  • Masked ball. Novella in Costume , 1920
  • The capital , novel, 1923
  • Casanova in Vienna , comedy, 1924
  • Josef Kainz Memorial Book , Vienna 1924
  • The left and the right hand , Roman, 1927 (reprint: Graz 1985)
  • The Viennese woman in the mirror of the centuries (ed. And preface), 1927
  • The fire bell , comedy, 1929
  • Evarist and Leander , short story, 1931
  • Spirit and Community , Speeches, 1932
  • The dangerous moment. Adventures and Metamorphoses , Tales, 1932
  • Gottlieb Less serves justice , Roman, 1934
  • Vienna. Image and Fate , 1938
  • Metternich. Statesman and Cavalier , 1947 (reprints: Vienna 1973, Munich 1977, 1981)
  • Franz Grillparzer. The Austrian poet , 1948 (reprint: Vienna / Munich 1972)
  • The Tavern in Lost Time , autobiography, 1948
  • Viennese gossip: six one-act plays , Vienna / Munich 1974
  • From our lost time. Autobiographical Notes 1890-1938 (with an afterword by Patricia Ann Andres), Vienna 2004
  • To tell is to be sworn to the truth . Annotated edition (Patricia Ann Andres) of the German and English language version of the previously unpublished concentration camp report "The time in the camp - Through Work to Freedom", Frankfurt / Main - Berlin 2010

literature

  • Alfred Zohner:  Auernheimer, Raoul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 435 ( digitized version ).
  • Donald G. Daviau, Jorun B. Johns (Eds.): The correspondence of Arthur Schnitzler and Raoul Auernheimer: with Raoul Auernheimer's aphorisms , Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972
  • Donald G. Daviau, Jorun B. Johns, Jeffrey B. Berlin (Eds.): The Correspondence from Stefan Zweig with Raoul Auernheimer , Columbia / South Carolina: Camden House, 1983
  • Lennart Weiss: You can't live in Vienna, but you can't live anywhere else. Continuity and change in Raoul Auernheimer , Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Germanistica Upsaliensia 54, 293 S., Uppsala University 2010, ISBN 978-91-554- 7659-5 ( diva-portal.org PDF).
  • Auernheimer, Raoul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 253-259.

Web links

Commons : Raoul Auernheimer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Diary. September 5, 1916.
  2. ↑ Patricia Ann Andres: “Telling means being conspired to the truth”: commented edition of the German and English language version of the previously unpublished concentration camp report Die Zeit im Lager - Through Work to Freedom by Raoul Auernheimer . Peter Lang, 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-58824-6 ( books.google.at [accessed June 19, 2018]).
  3. ^ Alfred Zohner: Auernheimer, Raoul Othmar (PS. Raoul Heimern, Raoul Othmar). In: Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (Ed.): New German biography. Volume 1: Aachen – Behaim. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1953, p. 435 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Auernheimer, Raoul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raoul Heimern (pseudonym); Raoul Othmar (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1948
Place of death Oakland (California)