Alfred Margul-Sperber

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Alfred Margul-Sperber

Alfred Margul-Sperber (born September 23, 1898 in Storozynetz , Austria-Hungary ; died January 3, 1967 in Bucharest ) was an Austro-Romanian writer .

Life

Alfred Sperber was born on September 23, 1898 to a German-assimilated Jewish family in Storozynetz in Bukovina . He attended high school in Chernivtsi and Vienna . After graduating from high school, he was called to the military and fought on the Eastern Front. In 1918 he returned to his homeland, but went to Paris as early as 1920, where he became friends with Yvan Goll . After the war he came to America, lived in New York from 1921 to 1924, was an authorized signatory at the Bowery Savings Bank, head of the Bukovinian social and cultural work and became an editor at the New Yorker People's Daily. After returning to Chernivtsi, he first worked as a journalist for the "Bukowiner Provincial Messenger" and in 1924 for the Chernivtsi Morgenblatt newspaper. Between 1934 and 1940 he was a civil servant in Burdujeni / Suceava , from 1940 in Bucharest as a private teacher for foreign languages. After 1944 he was an editor at Bucharest Radio, then a journalist and freelance writer.

The youth poems appeared only sporadically during Sperber's lifetime, in magazines and newspapers, the two volumes of poetry from the interwar period came out in tiny editions in Chernivtsi, and the planned cooperation with German publishers came to an end after Hitler came to power. In the period 1951–1964 he published eight volumes of poetry. Sperber has submitted to the tightly knit literary concept of the early fifties of the real existing socialism in Romania and consolidated it with the praises of the ruler and affirmative social anthems, without joining the party.

Sparrowhawk was the sponsor of Paul Celan and Rose Foreigner . His socially committed and programmatic poems had a decisive influence on the development of German-language literature in Romania. Even Zeno Unicorn belonged to the group of German-Jewish poet Bukovina, which Margul-Sperber was funded by Alfred, who is also the release of Unicorn amendment spring in the Jewish alley caused. Einhorn's poems only appeared posthumously in the anthology "Die Buche" compiled by Alfred Margul-Sperber.

Alfred Markus-Sperber died in Bucharest in 1967.

Works

  • Parables of the landscape. In my mother's memory , 1934
  • Secret and Renunciation , 1939
  • Great moments of love , 1963
  • From prehistory , 1964
  • Selected poems , 1968
  • The Enchanted Word , 1969
  • The lyric work in selection , 1975
  • Sinnloser Sang - early poems 1914–1928 , with an afterword by Erich Ruchleben; Rimbaud, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-89086-765-0
  • Spoken into Emptiness - Selected Poems 1914–1966 , Rimbaud, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-89086-792-8
  • Seasons - Selected Poems , Rimbaud, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-89086-741-3
  • Die Buche - An anthology of German-language Jewish poetry from Bukovina , compiled by Alfred Margul-Sperber. Edited from the estate by George Gutu, Peter Motzan and Stefan Sienerth , IKGS Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9809851-4-7

Translations

  • World voices. Re-seals. , Bucharest literary publisher 1968.

Anthologies

literature

  • Alfred Kittner:  Margul-Sperber, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 171 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin A. Hainz: Cautious Enabling - on Alfred Margul-Sperber (1898-1967). In: In the shadow of literary history. Authors that nobody knows anymore? Plea against forgetting, ed. Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester u. Evelyne Tax. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi 2005 (= Duitse Kroniek, Vol. 54), pp. 113–128
  • Claus Stephani : "Green Mother Bukowina". German-Jewish writers from Bukovina. Documentation in manuscripts, books and pictures. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from April 22nd to June 25th, 2010. House of the German East: Munich, 2010. 48 pp., 9 illustrations. ISBN 978-3-927977-27-3
  • Margul-Sperber, Alfred. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 329-339.
  • Sigurd Paul Scheichl: Margul-Sperber, Alfred. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 361-363.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The poet Alfred Margul-Sperber. A research report. Along with a short defamation
  2. ↑ a b NDB article ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Margul-Sperber, Alfred
  3. ↑ a b perlentaucher.de , Alfred Margul-Sperber
  4. ^ Austria-forum.org , Margul-Sperber, Alfred
  5. ↑ Zeno Einhorns Gedichte, in: George Guțu, Peter Motzan, Stefan Sienerth (Ed.): Die Buche. An anthology of German-language Jewish poetry from Bukovina . Compiled by Alfred Margul-Sperber. IKGS Verlag, Munich 2009, pp. 73–80.
  6. ↑ Israel Chalfen: Paul Celan. A biography of his youth . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 143 .
  7. ↑ exhibition catalog. The title comes from a letter from Kolnik to foreigners. Other authors Rose Ausländer , Alfred Margul-Sperber, Alfred Kittner , Edith Silbermann, Helios Hecht and others. Other ISBNs: ISBN 3932670051 ISBN 3931826074
personal data
SURNAME Margul-Sperber, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Storozynetz , Bukovina
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1967
Place of death Bucharest