Alfred Grünewald

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Alfred Grünewald (born March 17, 1884 in Vienna , † September 9, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Alfred Grünewald was the son of a businessman . He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology . At first he worked as an architect and employee of Adolf Loos , then he lived as a freelance writer in Vienna. Grünewald was close to Expressionism .

On March 11, 1938, the eve of the Nazis' invasion of Austria , Grünewald attempted suicide (Grünewald was Jewish and homosexual ). After the November pogroms he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp on November 14, 1938 , but released again in January 1939. He fled via Switzerland to southern France; after the outbreak of war he was interned in the Fort-Carré in Antibes and in the Les Milles camp, and lived in Nice until late summer 1942 . There he was arrested by the police of the Vichy regime and extradited to the SS . He was murdered in Auschwitz on September 9, 1942.

Works

Sonnets to a Boy, 1920. With a dedication by the author

His work mainly includes volumes of poetry and dramas.

  • Mummery of Death , 1909 (poems)
  • The tides of the soul , Vienna 1912 (poems)
  • Games , 1914 (three one-act plays)
  • The little bird Süzelin , 1918 (poems)
  • Urian's loin jewelry , Vienna 1914 (game)
  • Sonnets to a boy , Vienna 1913
  • Dithyrambic Autumn , Vienna 1919 (poems)
  • Carbuncle , 1920 (ballads)
  • Mother , Vienna 1918 (Requiem)
  • Renatos Gesang , Vienna 1917 (poems)
  • Pavor nocturnus , 1921 (game)
  • Results , Vienna 1921 (aphorisms); Reprint: "Results", aphorisms. With an afterword by Klaus Hansen, 1995
  • The pranks of Mr. Sassaparilla , Vienna 1922 (epic)
  • The devil of Vienna , 1923 (poems)
  • Comforting cantata , 1928 (poems)
  • Selected poems , 1931
  • Sonnets to a boy and other poems, combined with a portrayal of life, edited by Volker Bühn (2013), ISBN 978-3-86300-064-6
  • Reseda . Novella and other prose, edited by Volker Bühn (2013), ISBN 978-3-86300-065-3
  • There are times that are anachronisms: aphorisms, fables, essays , edited by Volker Bühn and Friedemann Spicker, Bochum: Brockmeyer Verlag, May 2016, ISBN 978-3-8196-1023-3

literature

  • Grünewald Alfred. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 89.
  • Giebisch / Pichler / Vancsa (eds.): Small Austrian Literature Lexicon . Hollinek brothers: Vienna, 1948
  • Wilhelm Kosch , Deutsches Literaturlexikon: biographical-bibliographical manual, 3rd revised. Edition - Bern - ISBN 3-907820-00-2
  • JW Nagl, J. Zeidler, E. Castle: German-Austrian literary history: a handbook on the history of German poetry in Austria-Hungary. 4 vol. - Vienna, 1914–1937
  • Grünewald, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 385-395.
  • Volker Bühn: Alfred Grünewald: Work and Life , Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20305-6

Web links

Commons : Alfred Grünewald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Alfred Grünewald  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LAMBDA news . Edited by HOSI Vienna. Volume 35, 2.2013, serial number 149. May / June 2013. p. 43
  2. ↑ A monument. Alfred Grünewald's aphorisms in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 7, 1996; Retrieved January 11, 2013
  3. ↑ In search of the lost text in: Die Welt, February 12, 1997; Retrieved January 11, 2013
  4. ^ Memorial de la Shoah
personal data
SURNAME Grünewald, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz