Alexander Solomonica

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Alexander Solomonica (born December 21, 1889 in Jassy ; † 1941 or 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto or in the Kulmhof extermination camp ) was a writer.

Life and works

Alexander Solomonica grew up in Vienna from 1891 , where he attended Maximilians-Gymnasium . In 1910 and 1911 he published five stories in Karl Kraus ' magazine Die Fackel , after which he published mainly in Pan and in the Prager Tagblatt . Originally a Romanian citizen, he was considered stateless from 1914 and was interned from 1916 until the end of the First World War .

In a letter from 1911 to Kraus, Albert Ehrenstein called Solomonica “Alexander Pumpensmirwas”, which does not speak for the author's secure financial situation at the time.

The S. Fischer Verlag brought 1916 solo Monica's story Mr. Heck fish out. In his short biography in the ÖBL it is noted that the protagonist of this book takes “some social and political developments in advance that only came to the fore in the bourgeoisie in the interwar period: the uncertainty caused by an increasingly self-confident proletariat, the orientation towards outdated social models and the readiness for destructive radicalism. ”After the second edition of Heckfisch published Solomonica not much anymore.

Alexander Solomonica was in a relationship with Marianne Kuh, who, according to ÖBL , is said to have been a daughter of the writer Anton Kuh . According to another source, Marianne Kuh was Anton Kuh's sister and Emil Kuh's daughter ; the life data of the individual persons rather speak for this version. Solomonica lived with Marianne Kuh and their two children Sophie and Michael in Berlin from the 1920s . In 1933, he fled to the seizure of power of Hitler in Vienna. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, he tried to emigrate, but as a stateless person did not receive the necessary papers, although prominent writers such as Stefan Zweig and Franz Theodor Csokor tried to help him. On October 28, 1941, he was deported from Vienna to the Litzmannstadt ghetto; When and where exactly he died is unknown, according to the ÖBL.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Alexander Solomonica  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaiserlich-Königliches Maximilian-Gymnasium in Vienna (Vienna, Austria): Annual report of the KK Maximilians-Gymnasium in Vienna . 1907, p. 63 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ↑ Albert Ehrenstein: Letters. Wallstein Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-924-96331-6 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ^ A b M. Krist, Solomonica, Alexander , in: ÖBL 1815–1950. Volume 12 , 2005, p. 405 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Pleasant evenings. The “uncle” from “Zwiebelfisch” , April 20, 2013 on www.tagesspiegel.de
  5. ↑ Information on Alexander Solomonica on yvng.yadvashem.org
personal data
SURNAME Solomonica, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Author and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Iassy
DATE OF DEATH 1941 or 1942