Alfred Neumann (writer)

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Memorial plaque for the German and Austrian refugees in Sanary-sur-Mer , including Alfred Neumann
The devil . An edition was also published by the Allert de Lange publishing house in Amsterdam (1935)

Alfred Neumann (born October 15, 1895 in Lautenburg (today Lidzbark ), † October 3, 1952 in Lugano ) was a German author of historical and contemporary novels.

Life

Alfred Neumann was born the son of a Jewish timber industrialist and spent his youth in Berlin , Rostock and French-speaking Switzerland .

From 1913 he studied art history and received his doctorate after the First World War . In Munich he initially worked as a publishing editor , from 1918 to 1920 as a dramaturge for the Kammerspiele and as a freelance writer .

After coming to power, Alfred Neumann was placed on the list of banned authors during the Nazi era because of his Jewish descent . Neumann emigrated in 1933, lived in Fiesole near Florence until 1938 , then in Nice and from 1941 in Los Angeles , where he became a US citizen. In 1949 he returned to Europe and settled in Florence. He died in 1952 in Lugano at the age of 56. Neumann's artistic estate was handed over to the City of Munich by his widow Katharina Neumann.

Artistic creation

His novels, which are heavily dialogues, emerged from the conflict between a tragic world feeling and an optimistic attitude towards life.

The early novella Teacher Taussig is still committed to Expressionism , but he was soon tempted to translate the visual spatial perception of the Baroque into an artistic language. The historical topic, to which he mainly turned, was always only an occasion for him to fathom the depths of the human soul.

The picaresque novel Narrenspiegel is about the adventurous life of the eternally bankrupt Duke Heinrich Liegnitz , who once commanded the Huguenot army and almost became King of Poland.

Players and opponents in his novels of the Risorgimento , Rebels and Guerra , are typical in their behavior when, like chess players, they plan their next political moves without venom.

The story Der Patriot , set against the historical background of the assassination of Tsar Paul I , was successfully filmed with Emil Jannings ( Der Patriot , 1928).

During his time in California he wrote the novel The Pact about the American Colonel William Walker , who was elected President of Nicaragua in the 19th century and then transformed the state into a dictatorship .

Awards and honors

Works

  • Collected Works . 2 vols., New Verlag Stockholm 1945

Novels

  • The devil , 1926 novel about Ludwig XI. and Olivier le Daim
  • Rebels , 1928 Risorgimento, Italian struggle for freedom
  • Guerra , 1929 Risorgimento, Italian struggle for freedom
  • Der Held , 1930 novel about a political murder (of Walther Rathenau )
  • Narrenspiegel 1932 novel about the adventurous Liegnitz Duke Heinrich
  • Romantic trilogy about Napoléon III. , 1952 under the title The Child of Paris :
    1. New Caesar 1934
    2. Empire 1936
    3. The Friends of the People 1940
  • Latticework of Life 1943, partial print from Der Pakt
  • There were six of them , Stockholm: Neuer Verl., 1944, Berlin: Verlag Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis, 2018, ISBN 978-3-946990-17-8 , a novel about the resistance of the Scholl siblings
  • The brothers in 1924
  • Die Goldquelle 1938, new edition. 1948, 1957
  • The 1949 Pact , a novel about the American adventurer William Walker

stories

  • Teacher Taussig , 1924
  • King Haber , 1926 Drama House Danieli redesigned
  • The Patriot 1925
  • The Konnetabel , 1927
  • Marthe Munk , in New German Storytellers, Schlueter & Co., 1928, (1933)
  • Little heroes , short stories, 1934

Dramas

  • The Patriot , 1926, drama in five acts
  • The royal mask , 1928, around Louis XVII. ,
  • Frauenschuh , 1929 to Lola Montez
  • Danieli House , 1930, own dramatization of the novella King Haber from 1926
  • Abel , 1948

Poems

  • Sais , A Riddle Book, 1934
  • Tunkal , New Riddle Seals, 1935
  • Delphi , New Riddle Seals, 1936
  • Rhodus , New Riddle Seals, 1937

Other works

  • The Songs of Smile and Need , Poems, 1918
  • The Saints , Legend, 1919
  • Old and New French poetry in adaptations , 1922
  • The Queen of Sweden , 1936,
  • Correspondence with Thomas Mann , 1977, ed. v. Peter de Mendelssohn
  • Diaries. October 15, 1939 - February 15, 1940. In: Catalog: Exil am Mediterranean , 2005
  • Escape from France. From a diary. January 10, 1941. In: Egon Schwarz and Matthias Wegner (eds.): Banishment. Records of German writers in exile. Wegner, Hamburg 1964, p. 96 f.

Editor, translator, editor

  • Alfred de Musset : works . Müller, Munich 1925 (5 vols .; translation).
  • Alphonse de Lamartine : Girondins and Jacobins . Recht-Verlag, Munich 1923 (translation)
  • From foreign lands. Adaptations of French, English and Italian poetry . Saturn-Verlag, Vienna 1924 (adaptation).
  • Armand Godoy: Hosanna to the Sistrum. Music in verse . Saturn-Verlag, Vienna 1937 (translation and editing).
  • Armand Godoy: Marcel. Dramatic poem . Saturn-Verlag, Vienna 1936 (translation and editing).
  • Armand Godoy: Rome . Saturn-Verlag, Vienna 1937 (translation and editing).
  • Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy : War and Peace . Retold and edited for the stage after the novel . Reinbek, Hamburg 1955 (together with Erwin Piscator and Guntram Prüfer ).

Filmography

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script

  • 1946: Escape from Devil's Island (The Return of Monte Christo) (co-author)
  • 1947: Matto rules (co-author)
  • 1951: K - Das Haus des Schweigens / Years of Silence (co-author, film adaptation of Many are called Cain )

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Review: Ferdinand Kahn : Alfred Neumann reads. In Jewish Club of 1933. In: Structure , Volume 10, Number 19, May 9, 1947 page 24, online: .
  2. ↑ Interview: Walter H. Perl: Conversation with Alfred Neumann. In: Structure , Volume 12, Number 33, August 16, 1946 page 20-21, online: . - Review: Ferdinand Kahn : Alfred Neumann reads. In Jewish Club of 1933. In: Structure , Volume 13, Number 19, May 9, 1947 page 24, online: .
  3. ↑ See also: William Walker, Der Pakt . Partial print from 1943: Lattice work of life , see above .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Lautenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1952
Place of death Lugano