Anna Maria Jokl

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Anna Maria Jokl (born January 23, 1911 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † October 21, 2001 in Jerusalem ) was an Austrian - Israeli writer , journalist and psychotherapist .

Life

Anna Maria Jokl was born in an assimilated Jewish family in Vienna. In 1927 the family moved to Berlin . Jokl worked as a dramaturge for UFA , as a journalist and as a screenwriter . At the premiere of her experimental film Tratsch in May 1933 in Berlin, her name as an author was no longer allowed to be mentioned.

In 1933 she went to the first wave of refugees into exile to Prague , where her two best-known children's books The real miracle of St. Basil Knox (1937) and The Perlmutterfarbe emerged.

When the "remaining Czech Republic " was occupied on March 15, 1939 , Jokl fled to England via Poland . She had to leave the mother-of-pearl manuscript behind. It was later brought across the border by her escape agent. In London she was involved in social projects, for example campaigning for the establishment of a home for refugee children, wrote and staged plays for children with the group Young Czechoslovakia and began studying depth psychology in 1945 , which she taught at the CG Jung- Institute in Zurich continued. Anna Maria Jokl attributed the failure of her examination at the institute to anti-Semitic tendencies at Carl Gustav Jung and his colleague Toni Wolff . Although she never received the diploma she wanted from the Jung Institute, she later worked as a therapist , including for the Jewish Hospital in Berlin.

It was not until 1948 that her novel The Mother of Pearl appeared. A children's novel for almost everyone. In 1950 Jokl moved to East Berlin on the occasion of a planned film adaptation of the mother-of-pearl color , but was expelled from the GDR shortly afterwards without giving any reason. The script written by Jokl was rejected. It was not until 2008 that the book by director Marcus H. Rosenmüller was made into The Perl Mother Color, and in 2013 it was staged in a dramatization by Christoph Nussbaumeder for the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .

From 1951 to 1965 Jokl lived and worked as a psychotherapist and publicist in West Berlin , until she moved to Jerusalem in 1965 "in historical consequence" (Jokl). She became a member of the Association of German-Language Writers in Israel and the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad and, in addition to her work as a psychotherapist, increasingly devoted herself to literature.

In addition to her strongly autobiographical texts Essenzen (1993) and Die Reise nach London (1999), she also produced the psychoanalytic study Two Cases on “Coping with the Past” (1968) as well as some translations from Hebrew and Yiddish into German, including Zvi Kolitz ' Jossel Rackower Speaks to God (1956). In 1995 her work was awarded the Hans Erich Nossack Prize .

In 2001 Anna Maria Jokl died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. On the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2011, autobiographical notes, letters and stories from the estate were published under the title From Six Lives .

Works

  • The Sweet Adventure (Prague 1937)
  • Basil Knox. Román pro děti od 10 do 70 let (Prague 1937) (German: The real miracles of Basilius Knox. A novel about physics for children from 10 to 70 years , Insel Verlag, ISBN 978-3-45833588-7 )
  • Umělecké základy amatérského filmu (Prague 1938) (German: The artistic foundations of the amateur film )
  • The mother-of-pearl color. A children's novel for almost everyone (Berlin 1948), published by Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-46039-9
  • The listed animals (Berlin 1950)
  • Two cases on the subject of “Coping with the Past” (Jerusalem 1968), Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-633-54136-2
  • Essences (Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-633-54064-8 )
  • The trip to London. Re-encounters (Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-633-54157-7 )
  • From six lives. Edited and with an afterword by Jennifer Tharr. With an essay by Itta Shedletzky (Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-633-54245-1 )

Translations

  • Avner Carmi: The immortal piano. The adventurous and true story of the lost and found Siena piano (1965)
  • Zvi Kolitz : Jossel Rackower speaks to God (1956)

literature

  • Gudrun Wilcke: Forgotten youth writers of the Erich Kästner generation. Frankfurt 1999 ISBN 3-631-34588-7
  • Christoph Haacker: A life between East and West. On the death of the writer Anna Maria Jokl. In: Aufbau , 24, 2001
  • Christoph Haacker: Stone on a grave in Jerusalem. On the death of the writer Anna Maria Jokl. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Zs. Der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Volume 18, No. 4, Vienna, February 2002 ISSN  1606-4321 pp. 7–8
  • Hertha Hanus: Jokl, Anna Maria. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 335f.
  • Nikola Herweg: Functional attributions and functional changes in children's and youth literature using the example of the children's novel 'Die Perlmutterfarben' by Anna Maria Jokl. In: Marion Gymnich, Ansgar Nünning (ed.): Functions of literature: Theoretical foundations and model interpretations. Trier 2005
  • Elke Liebs: Re-encounter or the color of memory. Anna Maria Jokl: 'The mother-of-pearl color'. In: Petra Josting, Walter Fähnders (Eds.): “Laboratory Versatility”. On the literature of the Weimar Republic. Bielefeld 2005 ISBN 3-89528-546-3 pp. 469-482
  • Rudolf Pesch: Anna Maria Jokl and the 'Jossel Rackower' by Zvi Kolitz. Trier 2005
  • Nikola Herweg: Six Lives between Vienna and Jerusalem. On the life and work of the writer Anna Maria Jokl. In: Edita Koch, Frithjof Trapp (Ed.): Exil. Research, findings, results 1933-1945. Vol. 27, E. Koch Exil-Verlag, Frankfurt 2007 ISSN  0721-6742 pp. 79-89
  • Chaïm Vogt-Moykopf: glowing letters. Jewish thinking as a universal concept in German-language literature. Campus Verlag , 2009; therein chapter: Talking coincidences. On the phenomenon of chance in Anna Maria Jokl's story "Encounter at the Dead Sea"
  • Jana Mikota: "Magnetmaxl really seemed to be a special kind of teacher". School and teacher in children's media using the example of Anna Maria Jokl's "mother-of-pearl" color. In: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature. Studies on the history of Austrian literature; Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Praesens Verlag , Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 pp. 128–145
  • Nikola Herweg: "only one country / my language country". Home is written by Elisabeth Augustin , Hilde Domin and Anna Maria Jokl. Würzburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-8260-4761-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Mayer: Nnnniemand has dared , Die Zeit, No. 18, April 24, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Jokl, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli German-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2001
Place of death Jerusalem