Adolf Josef Storfer

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Adolf Josef Storfer (* 1888 in Botoșani ; † December 2, 1944 in Melbourne ) was an Austrian writer , journalist and publisher .

Life

Adolf Joseph Storfer grew up in Transylvania in a wealthy family. The father was a timber dealer, the mother came from a Jewish banking family in Chernivtsi . Storfer attended the Honterus High School in Cluj- Napoca . Storfer studied law and literature in Klausenburg, Vienna and Zurich and then completed an apprenticeship as a journalist. From the 1910s he belonged to the Vienna circle around Sigmund Freud . From 1925 to 1932 he was director of the International Psychoanalytical Publishing House in Vienna and co-editor of Freud's collected writings . In the following years he published two "word biographies": words and their fates (1935) and in the thicket of language (1937); both were reissued several times from the 1980s. In 1938 he changed his first name “Adolf” to “Albert” and fled from the National Socialists to Shanghai , where he founded the exile magazine “ Gelb Post” ; from there he moved on to Australia . Storfer belonged to one of the last of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association, which still managed to leave Vienna in November 1938. The ready-to-print work on first names, which was created shortly before his emigration, was confiscated by the National Socialists and is no longer preserved.

Storfer was no longer able to gain a foothold in Australia. He was physically and mentally battered and no longer took up any journalistic activity. Instead, he worked in a sawmill and as a knob turner and died in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne of complications from pneumonia.

Works

A large part of Storfer's works is freely accessible as full text in the Internet Archive , including:

  • Words and their fates. Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich 1935 ( digitized ; reprint: Fourier, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-921695-53-8 ; Vorwerk, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-930916-37-1 ); License issue: Bertelsmann Club GmbH, Gütersloh (# 01805 1, no year).
  • In the thicket of language. Passer, Vienna / Leipzig / Prague 1937 ( digitized ; reprint Vorwerk, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-930916-37-1 ).

literature

  • Yuan Zhiying: AJ Storfer and the “Yellow Post”. In: Literaturstrasse. Chinese-German yearbook for language, literature and culture. Volume 9, 2008, ISSN  1616-4016 , pp. 225-238.
  • Christian Pape: Displaced, misunderstood, forgotten? A contribution to the life and works of Adolf Josef Storfer. In: Chilufim . Journal of Jewish Cultural History. Volume 12, 2012, ISSN  1817-9223 , pp. 5-26.
  • Roland Kaufhold: The Jewish psychoanalyst and emigrant Adolf Josef Storfer under National Socialist observation. The yellow post - a German-language émigré magazine from Shanghai, In: Psychoanalysis in contradiction, H. 59/2018, ISSN 0941-5378, pp. 9–46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Inge Scholz-Strasser: Adolf Joseph Storfer , in: Ernst Federn and Gerhard Wittenberger (ed.): From the circle around Sigmund Freud . On the protocols of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association, Fischer Taschenbuch Frankfurt 1992, pp. 201–207.
  2. ↑ a b Christoph Gutknecht : Literal misstep. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , July 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ Roland Kaufhold: A Viennese in Asia: Adolf Josef Storfer, psychoanalyst and operator of the exile magazine "Yellow Post", was also observed by the Nazis in Shanghai. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , August 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Adolf Josef Storfer ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Psychoanalytic Document Database .
  5. ↑ http://www.hagalil.com/2018/06/storfer-3/
  6. ↑ See the following search query .
personal data
SURNAME Storfer, Adolf Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storfer, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoșani
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1944
Place of death Melbourne