Anna Goldenberg
Anna Goldenberg (* 1989 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author and journalist . In her first book, Hidden Years , she tells the story of her grandparents who survived the Holocaust .
Live and act
Anna Goldenberg was born into an assimilated Jewish family and grew up in the 19th district of Vienna . She studied psychology at Cambridge University in Great Britain . In 2012 she went to New York to study for a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University . After graduating, she worked for the magazine The Jewish Daily Forward .
She has been living in Vienna again since 2015. She writes about politics and the media for the weekly newspaper Falter and took over the interim management of the media department in July 2018. In the same year she was awarded the young talent prize “30 under 30” by the specialist journal Der Österreichische Journalist . As a freelance journalist, she reports on Austrian politics in the American magazine The Atlantic .
In New York, Goldenberg said he was repeatedly confronted with the question of why Jews voluntarily returned to Austria after the Holocaust. She started doing research on her family history. Her grandmother, the doctor Helga Feldner-Bustin, born in Vienna in 1929 as Helga Pollak, was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 and liberated with her mother and sister in 1945. The parents and brother of their grandfather Hans Bustin, who were brought to Theresienstadt in 1942, perished. He was the only one of his family to survive because the Christian Viennese school doctor Josef Feldner had hidden the then sixteen-year-old in his apartment until the end of the war . He later took the name of his savior and also became a doctor. Helga and Hans Feldner-Bustin emigrated to the USA in 1955, but returned to Austria in 1956 and settled in Vienna. Her daughter is Anna Goldenberg's mother.
An important source of her research were the notes that her grandfather (called "Hansi"), who died in 1996, began in 1980, as well as conversations with her grandmother and other survivors. She found documents in archives that complemented their stories and put them in a historical context. In 2013, Zeitmagazin published her essay about a visit with her grandmother and great-aunt to the memorial of the former Theresienstadt concentration camp . In 2015 her article Das Tagebuch des Hansi Busztin was published in Falter . This gave rise to the idea for the book Hidden Years , which was published in 2018 with the subtitle The Man Who Saved My Grandfather .
reception
Goldenberg's book Hidden Years traces “the biographies of three people who escaped the Nazis”. It has received many reviews.
Hasnain Kazim (in the mirror ) reminded Goldenberg's oppressive descriptions of everyday life during the Nazi rule of Anne Frank and her diary entries from hiding. The relation to the present is also exciting.
Judith E. Innerhofer (in Die Zeit ) said about the book: “Goldenberg's family time story creates a kaleidoscopic picture of the very different perceptions in the face of the approaching Holocaust and the reactions to the events and risks within the Jewish population in Vienna. Because what goes down in the announcement of the book, the two stories of the grandparents are on an equal footing. "
The reviewer of the Wiener Zeitung , Walter Klier, was impressed by the way in which Goldenberg “kept calm, so to speak” in the face of what she said. "That should be much more difficult than it appears from the finished, all-round successful book."
Julya Rabinowich reviewed Hidden Years in Der Standard as an “indispensable new release this year” (2018) . In Goldenberg's objective view, "developments that seem to be reestablishing themselves" would become apparent.
Book publications
- Hidden years. The man who saved my grandfather. Paul Zsolnay Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05906-1
Web links
- Anna Goldenberg , Hanser literary publishers
- Martin Krist (historian) : Book review in: Zwischenwelt. Journal for Culture of Exile and Resistance (Ed. Theodor-Kramer-Gesellschaft ), 35th year, No. 3, 2018. Online at Remember.at
- Anna Goldenberg's blog , falter.at
- Anna Goldenberg's TAZ column "Die Internetexplorerin"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anna Goldberg, Forward.com
- ↑ Anna Goldenberg and Helga Feldner-Bustin - In conversation with Renata Schmidtkunz (contemporaries in conversation on December 2, 2018 in the Theater in der Josefstadt), Ö1, December 21, 2018
- ^ Anna Goldenberg, falter.at
- ↑ newsroom.de
- ^ Anna Goldenberg, in: The Atlantic
- ↑ a b Hasnain Kazim: Jews in Austria. "I'm not leaving here" , in: Spiegel Online, July 23, 2018
- ↑ "They wanted to drive us away, but I'm here now". Anna Goldenberg in conversation with Joachim Scholl . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, July 26, 2018
- ↑ Erich Kocina: My grandfather's savior: A Jewish family history. In: Die Presse, July 22, 2018
- ↑ Anna Goldenberg: In Doubt for Doubt , in: Das Jüdische Echo , Vol. 68, Vienna 2019, p. 93 f.
- ^ Anna Goldenberg: Theresienstadt concentration camp. The life after . In: ZEITMagazin No. 51/2013, online December 12, 2013
- ↑ The Diary of Hansi Busztin . Family history: Anna Goldenberg, in: FALTER 17/15 of April 22, 2015
- ↑ Jennifer Bligh: Helga, Hans and Josef , review in: Jüdische Allgemeine, January 10, 2019
- ↑ Judith E. Innerhofer: "Hidden Years": parallel close-up , in: ZEIT Austria No. 31/2018, July 26, 2018, online July 30, 2018
- ^ Walter Klier: Courage and decency , in: Wiener Zeitung
- ↑ Julya Rabinowich: Responsibility is a decision , in: Der Standard, August 10, 2018
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goldenberg, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |