Andreas Latzko

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Andreas Latzko, lithograph by Georg Rueter, 1936.

Andreas Latzko (born September 1, 1876 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † September 11, 1943 in Amsterdam ) was an Austrian pacifist writer .

Life

Andreas Latzko attended grammar school in Budapest and graduated with the Matura. He then served in the Austro-Hungarian Joint Army as a one-year volunteer and then became a reserve officer in the reserve army. He went to Berlin , first studied chemistry, later philosophy in Berlin. At first he wrote in the Hungarian language. In 1901 his first attempt in German, a one-act play, was performed in Berlin.

Grave of Andreas Latzko and his wife at the Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam.

As a journalist and travel writer, he made trips to Egypt, India, Ceylon and Java. With the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 he came back to Europe and was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army as a reserve officer . With the beginning of the war between Italy and Austria-Hungary he came to the Isonzo front . He fell ill with malaria but had to stay at the front until he suffered a severe shock after an Italian artillery attack near Gorizia and was incapacitated as a war tremor. After eight months in the hospital, he was released at the end of 1916 and sent to Switzerland for a cure. In 1917 he wrote six novellas in Davos for his book People in War , which dealt with the situation of the war on the Isonzo Front. In the same year the book was published by Rascher Verlag in Zurich , although the first edition was anonymous.

The book was a great success and translated into 19 languages ​​and banned in all warring states. Latzko himself was therefore demoted from the Army High Command of the Austro-Hungarian Army. As early as 1918, the book had a circulation of thirty-three thousand. In 1918 the novel Friedensgericht followed in six sections about the life of Austrian soldiers at the front. “The originators and henchmen of the war were never revealed so ruthlessly as by Latzko,” said the Berliner Tageblatt in early 1919. Also in 1918, the novel Der wilde Mann was published , which deals with the oppression of women and the Latzko “his and all women “Dedicates. For the international women’s conference for international understanding in Bern in 1918 he wrote the text Women in War . In Switzerland he made the acquaintance of Felix Beran , Romain Rolland and Stefan Zweig . At the end of the war in 1918, Latzko moved to Munich and gave lectures there with Gustav Landauer . Two attempts to give lectures in Berlin were prevented by the censorship. After the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic , he was expelled from Bavaria and subsequently settled in Salzburg . In Salzburg he met Georg Friedrich Nicolai when he was visiting Stefan Zweig in Salzburg, who had published the book The Biology of War in 1917 . Latzko worked again as a journalist and wrote various newspaper articles. In 1929 his novel Seven Days was published . In 1931 he moved to Amsterdam, where he died on September 11, 1943. In 1933 his books were burned by the National Socialists in Germany.

Works

  • Apostles . Comedy in three acts. Osterheld, Berlin 1911, DNB 36113813X .
  • Hans in hapiness. Comedy in three acts.
  • The novel of Mr. Cordé. Novel.
  • People at war. Rascher, Zurich 1917; New edition: Elektrischer Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943889-51-2 ; with an afterword by Hans Weichselbaum, Milena, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902950-11-6 .
  • Magistrate's court. Novel. Rascher, Zurich 1918; New edition, with an afterword by Hans Weichselbaum, Milena, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902950-36-9 .
  • The wild man. Rascher, Zurich 1918.
  • Women at war. Rascher, Zurich 1918.
  • The last man. Dreiländerverlag, Munich 1919.
  • Seven days. 1931, new edition, with an afterword by Eckhard Gruber. Elektrischer Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-943889-61-1 .
  • Marcia Reale. Malik, Berlin 1932.
  • Lafayette. Rascher, Zurich 1935
  • Life journey. Memories. Together with Stella Latzko-Otaroff. Edited by Georg B. Deutsch. Frank and Timme, Berlin 2017

literature

  • Hanus:  Latzko Adolph Andreas. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 43 f. (Direct links on p. 43 , p. 44 ).
  • Judit Garamvölgyi : Latzko, Andreas. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Karl Kraus: The torch. No. 462, Vienna 1917, p. 175.
  • Hermann Bahr : Diary. February 16 [1919]. In: 1919. EP Tal, Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1920, 72.
  • Karl Kraus: The torch. No. 857, Vienna 1931, p. 118.
  • Wieland Herzfelde : Thirty new storytellers of the New Germany. Berlin 1932.
  • Franz Ögg: Register of persons for the torch. Munich 1968–1976.
  • Herbert Gantschacher Viktor Ullmann - Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse / Testimone e vittima dell'Apocalisse / Svědek a oběť apokalypsy / Prič in žrtev apokalipse . ARBOS-Edition, Arnoldstein / Klagenfurt / Salzburg / Vienna / Prora / Prague 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503173-3-6 , pp. 46-48 and Pp. 193-195.
  • Eckhard Gruber: Andreas Latzko's novellas People in War in the field of tension between psychiatry, literature and journalism. In: Andreas Latzko: People in War. Berlin 2014, pp. 114–131.

Web links

Wikisource: Andreas Latzko  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Latzko / Stella Latzko-Otaroff: Life journey . Frank and Timme, Berlin 2017. p. 330.
  2. ↑ Ernst Carieb: Andreas Latzko . In: Berliner Tageblatt and Handelszeitung from February 4, 1919.
personal data
SURNAME Latzko, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seelig, Carl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pacifist writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1943
Place of death Amsterdam