Alfred Farau

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Alfred Farau (born Alfred Hernfeld, December 10, 1904 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 14, 1972 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American psychotherapist and writer.

Life

Alfred Hernfeld's father Max Hernfeld was the city's senior teacher and welfare officer , his mother Helene Singer was a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Choir. Both parents were victims of the Holocaust . Hernfeld married Sylvia Markus in 1930, who moved to Israel after his death.

Hernfeld attended secondary school and commercial school. From 1924 to 1929 he studied literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Vienna , he did not get his doctorate until 1953. He was interested in individual psychology and became a student of Alfred Adler . This ensured his acceptance into the Association for Individual Psychology, and Hernfeld opened a private practice as a psychotherapist .

He taught literary and cultural-historical topics as a freelance lecturer at the Volkshochschule in Vienna, worked at the Franz Schubert Conservatory and was also head of the Vienna Artists and Writers' Association Young Art . Hernfeld / Farau is considered one of the pioneers of the radio play . In 1931 he produced the radio play The fairy tale of little Opichi and in 1933 Call of the Stars for RAVAG . Until the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he wrote for the Berlin newspaper Funk-Express .

After the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, he was imprisoned for four months in the Dachau concentration camp as part of the arrests during the Reichspogromnacht . Hernfeld reached Trieste in 1939 , and with the help of Jewish refugee organizations, he and his wife came to New York on the Roma ship in 1940 . There they changed their family name in the hope that his parents would not then be prosecuted for his anti-fascist activities. Both initially got by with odd jobs.

It was not until 1944 that he was able to work in his own psychotherapeutic practice again. In the USA he co-founded the American Society of Adlerian Psychology and in 1949 was employed by the Adler Training Institute. In addition to the radio plays, his first children's book Pudel Muck came out in 1929 . He wrote two volumes of poetry. His specialist publications include The Influence of Austrian Depth Psychology on Contemporary American Psychology and the Lived History of Psychotherapy, completed posthumously by his colleague Ruth Cohn . Farau became a member of the PEN in 1960 , was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association . In 1964 he received an Austrian honorary professorship and in 1970 the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art .

Fonts (selection)

  • Poodle Muck, the faithful animal, tells stories to you and me. Synek, Prague 1930, (verse and prose).
  • The drum song of madness. Poems from that time. Writers Service Center, New York NY 1943.
  • Where is the youth that I call Willard, New York NY 1946, (poems).
  • The influence of Austrian depth psychology on contemporary American psychotherapy. Sexl, Vienna 1953.
  • Shadows are the goods of life. Bergland-Verlag, Vienna 1967, (about Franz Grillparzer , first performance in Boston 1962).
  • with Herbert Schaffer: La psychologie des profondeurs des origines à nos jours. Payot, Paris 1960, (In Portuguese: A psicologia das profundidades. (Das origens aos nossos dias) (= Biblioteca filosófica. 16). Atlântida, Coimbra 1963).
  • with Ruth C. Cohn : Lived history of psychotherapy. Two perspectives. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-95093-1 .
  • From the diary of an emigrant and other Austrian things from America (= Austrian Culture. 4). Edited by Harry Zohn . Lang, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-8204-1631-2 .
Radio plays

The radio plays remained unpublished.

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. = International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume 2: The Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Part 1: A - K. Saur, Munich et al. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 281.
  • Farau, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 491-496.
  • Ursula Seeber (Ed.): Small allies. Displaced Austrian children's and youth literature. = Little Allies. Austrian Children's and Juvenile Literature in Exile. Picus, Vienna 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 120.
  • Clara Kenner: The torn sky. Emigration and exile of the Viennese individual psychology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-525-45320-9 , pp. 99-103.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Funk-Express. Fast broadcast news service. 1929.61 - 1941.25, ZDB ID 2599500-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Farau, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hernfeld, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psychotherapist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1972
Place of death New York City