Adolf Unger

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Adolf Unger (born June 11, 1904 in Vienna ; † September 13, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian working-class poet .

Life

Adolf Unger was the son of the Jewish shoemaker Samuel Unger and his wife Mindel Unger. Growing up in small circumstances in Vienna- Leopoldstadt , Unger , who was entitled to residency in Sieniawa in Galicia, first became a shoemaker, like his father, and then traveled for several years.

Back in Vienna, Unger found a supporter of his literary ambitions from 1929 at the adult education center in Zirkusgasse 48 through Ernst Schönwiese . As a working-class poet, he was able to hold readings in Vienna's Urania and other educational institutions. In 1933 he put together the revue There is something wrong for the red art collective. In the same year he was awarded the Julius Reich Prize for his literary work.

Unger belonged to the Association of Socialist Writers , which was officially dissolved in 1934. In 1936 he became a member of the Austrian Workers' Association , which was founded by Viktor Matejka .

Unger had married Sobel Leifer in 1930, with whom he had a daughter, Hanna (* 1935). Unger left Austria with his family in March 1938 and went to Belgium . On May 10, 1940, the day the German troops marched into Belgium, the Unger family were arrested and deported to France by the Belgians. There they were sent to several camps such as Camp de Gurs , Rivesaltes and Mont-Louis. From the transit camp Drancy of Unger and his wife were in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau deported where they immediately after their arrival in the gas chamber were murdered.

Years later the forgotten poet was honored in 1969 by naming Adolf-Unger-Gasse in Vienna- Favoriten and in 1997 with a plaque on Unger's birthplace at 4 Springergasse.

Works

  • In the rut . Poems. European publisher, Vienna 1933.
  • Time stanzas . New poems. European publisher, Vienna 1934.
  • The line . New poems. Self-published, Vienna 1937.

literature

  • Herbert Exenberger : Adolf Unger (1904-1942), a Jewish working-class writer from Vienna ; in: Archive 1985. Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Labor Movement 1st year. Association for the History of the Labor Movement, Vienna 1985, pp. 54–65.

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personal data
SURNAME Unger, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp