Alexander Sacher-Masoch

Grave of Alexander Sacher-Masoch in the Grinzing cemetery

Memorial plaque for Alexander Sacher-Masoch

Alexander (von) Sacher Masoch (born November 18, 1901 in Witkowitz , † August 17, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

Alexander Sacher-Masoch was a great-nephew of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch . Initially active as a chemist, he already emerged as a writer in the interwar period and was involved on the side of the political left. From 1938–40 he worked as a journalist in Belgrade as an émigré , from 1940–43 he lived, partly interned, on the island of Korčula . After the war the with was Franz Theodor Csokor befriended Sacher-Masoch one of the founders of the Austrian PEN Club and its first secretary general since 1945. 1946-47 acted Sacher-Masoch as the first editor of the Austrian Communist Party published cultural magazine Austrian diary (later Vienna Diary ). Sacher-Masoch's works often deal critically with the last decades of the Danube Monarchy and other contemporary historical topics. This is how the novel processes: The oil gardens burn Masoch's war experiences on Korčula.

Sacher-Masoch was buried in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 20, row 5, number 16) in an honorary grave . In 1994, his widow donated a literary prize in his memory, the Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize, named after him .

Works (selection)

• The parade, Vienna 1946
• Time of Demons (a poem), Vienna 1946
• A summer's adventure, Vienna 1946
• Time flies ..., 1947
• Beppo and Pule. Novel of an island («Written on the island of Korcula from 1941 to 1943»). Vienna 1948
• Piplatsch dreams. A gypsy book, Zurich 1949
• The oil gardens are on fire, 1956

literature

• Jens-Peter Cyprian: The literary work of Alexander Sacher-Masochs. An overview. In: Jaroslav Kovář / Aleš Urválek (eds.): German literature and the new challenges in research and teaching in the Czech Republic. Brno 2009, pp. 10-29.
• Jens-Peter Cyprian: Alexander Sacher-Masoch. Life and work. Dissertation at Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of German-Moravian Literature, Chair of German Studies. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci 2012. Online version as a PDF document
• Thomas Diecks:  Sacher-Masoch, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 327 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Erwin Köstler : The Yugoslav War Experience in Austrian (Exile) Literature. in intermediate worlds. Zs. Der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft Vol. 27, # 4, February 2011 ISSN  1606-4321 pp. 47-51; Sacher passim

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander Sacher-Masoch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Alexander Sacher-Masoch in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )