Alma Johanna Koenig

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Alma Johanna Koenig (around 1927)

Alma Johanna Koenig (married Ehrenfels ; pseudonym Johannes Herdan ; born August 18, 1887 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † June 1, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp ) was an Austrian poet and narrator with Galician-Jewish roots, who was adopted by the National Socialists in an extermination camp was deported and murdered on arrival.

Life

Street sign of the Alma-König-Weg in Vienna

The daughter of the kuk Hauptmann Karl Koenig and his wife Susanne, née Herdan, widowed apprentice, grew up in Vienna. Attendance at secondary school for girls was often interrupted by illness; she owed her education mainly to the self-taught studies and the lecture evenings by Josef Kainz . Out of consideration for the family, she published her first poems in magazines under the pseudonym Johannes Herdan. In 1921 she married the Austrian consul Bernhard Ehrenfels. Her first novel The Holy Palace (1922) established her success and caused a sensation because of its erotic content. For her Viking novel The Story of Half, the Woman (1924) she received the “Prize of the City of Vienna” in 1925. From 1925 she lived with her husband in Algiers , where she a. a. wrote the autobiographical, psychological and time-critical social novel passion in Algiers (1932). In 1930 she separated from her husband and returned to Vienna (divorced in 1936). In Vienna she was in contact with Oskar Jan Tauschinski . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, she was disenfranchised as a citizen and author for racial reasons, expelled from her apartment in Vienna- Alsergrund , Rögergasse 19, and forced to change accommodations several times in mass quarters. On May 27, 1942, she was deported by the National Socialists to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp and murdered immediately upon arrival.

In 1957, her estate administrator, Tauschinski, donated the Alma Johanna Koenig Prize to her memory .

In 1977 in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) the Alma-König-Weg was named after her.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Schibes . Narrative. Strache, Vienna - Prague - Leipzig 1920. 54 pp.
    • Schibes . Narrative. With an afterword by Eugen Antoine . Philipp Reclam, Leipzig 1925. 78 pp. (Universal Library, Bd. 6551) (new edition 1957).
  • The holy palace . Novel. Rikola - Verlag, Vienna - Berlin - Leipzig - Munich 1922. 369 p. (2nd edition, 4th - 11th thousand 1923)
  • The story of Half the woman . Novel. 1st - 6th thousand, Rikola - Verlag.I., Vienna - Leipzig - Munich 1924. 305 pp.
  • Gudrun. Pride and loyalty . Picture jewelry Willy Planck . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1928. 149 pp.
    • Gudrun. Pride and loyalty . Book decorations by Fritz Mayer - Beck. Leykam - Verlag, Graz - Vienna 1951. 176 pp. (New edition 1980)
    • Gudrun. Pride and loyalty . Illustrations by Haimo and Helga Lauth. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, Vienna - Munich 1964. 151 pp.
  • The torch of eros . Novel. 1930
  • Passion in Algiers . Novel. FG Speidel, Vienna - Leipzig 1932. 418 p. (New edition 1955)

Poetry collections

  • The bride of the wind . Amalthea-Verlag, Zurich, Leipzig and Vienna 1918. 60 pp.
  • The songs of Fausta . With eight lithographs and a binding drawing by Karl Schwetz . Rikola-Verlag, Vienna 1922. 34 pp.
  • Love poems . A selection from the complete lyric works. FG Speidel'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Vienna and Leipzig 1930. 103 pp.

Dramas

  • Ice Age of the Heart . Play. 1925

translation

  • Edgar Wallace : The Frog with the Mask . Detective novel. Rikola - Verlag, Vienna 1926. 396 pp.
    • Edgar Wallace: The Frog with the Mask . 7th - 26th thousand, Wilhelm Goldmann, Leipzig 1928. 320 pp.
    • Edgar Wallace: The Frog with the Mask . (The Fellowship with the frog). Transferred by AJ Koenig. New edition. W. Goldmann, Munich 1950. 249 pp.

Publications from the estate

  • Sonnets for Jan . Verse - novel. Luckmann - Verlag, Vienna 1946. 27 pp.
  • The youthful god . Novel. Paul Zsolnay, Berlin - Vienna - Leipzig 1947. 332 pages (reprint 1980)
  • Sahara . North African short stories and essays. Leykam - Verlag, Graz - Vienna 1951. 194 pp.
  • Love has come over me . Op. 582. Composer: Richard Maux. Text (involved): AJ Koenig. Robitschek, Vienna 1952. 3. p.
  • Schibes and other animal stories . Bergland - Verlag, Vienna 1957. 61 p. (New poetry from Austria, vol. 32)
  • Good love, bad love . Stiasny-Verlag, Graz - Vienna 1960. 127 p. ( Stiasny-Bücherei , Vol. 71)
  • OJ Tauschinski (Ed.): Good love - bad love . (Selection with biography). 1960
  • Fates in picture writing . Historical miniatures. Bergland - Verlag, Vienna 1967. 125 pp.
  • OJ Tauschinski (Ed.): In front of the mirror . Lyrical autobiography. Selection and epilogue OJ Tauschinski. Styria, Graz 1978. 123 pp.

literature

  • Oskar Jan Tauschinski:  Koenig, Alma Johanna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 333 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Koenig, Alma Johanna. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 143-149.
  • Christa Gürtler: Alma Johanna Koenig. In: Christa Gürtler, Sigrid Schmid-Bortenschlager (Ed.): Success and persecution. Austrian women writers 1918-1945 , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2002 (pp. 98–108).
  • Gabriele Bensberg: Alma Johanna König and psychoanalysis. The androgynous women in the Viking novel "The Story of Half the Woman" as representatives of a "masculinity complex"? In: Petra Hörner (Hrsg.): Bohemia as a cultural center of German literature . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2004 (pp. 191-218) dnb
  • Evelyne Polt-Heinzl : 'Burning longing in your blood' - Alma Johanna Koenig (1887–1942). In: Evelyne Polt-Heinzl: Timeless - nine portraits , Milena Verlag, Vienna 2005 (pp. 98–119).
  • Armin Strohmeyr : Lost Generation. Thirty forgotten poets of the “Other Germany” . Zurich: Atrium, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85535-721-5 , pp. 287-300.
  • Monika Mańczyk-Krygiel: Encounters with the Stranger. On Alma Johanna Koenig's North African prose. In: Attila Bombitz, Renata Cornejo, Sławomir Piontek, Eleonora Ringler-Pascu (eds.): Austrian literature without borders. Commemorative letter for Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler . Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2009 (pp. 291–302) dnb
  • Franziska Renauld and Edouard Roditi: Alma Johanna Koenig: Voice from the Holocaust. In: European Judaism, Vol. 14, No. 2 (winter 1980 / spring 1981), Berghahn Books, (pp. 14-19 ff.)

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Baron Bernhard von Ehrenfels had lost his title of nobility in Austria in 1919, so it is only a legend that Alma Koenig became Baroness von Ehrenfels
  2. ↑ as Alma Johanna Ehrenfels at DÖW
  3. ^ Franziska Renauld and Edouard Roditi: Alma Johanna Koenig: Voice from the Holocaust. In: European Judaism, Vol. 14, No. 2 (winter 1980 / spring 1981), Berghahn Books, pp. 14-19 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Koenig, Alma Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrenfels, Alma Johanna (after marriage); Herdan, Johannes (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and narrator of Jewish denomination
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1942
Place of death Maly Trostinez extermination camp