Arno Nadel

Arno Nadel (1938)

Self-Portrait (1926)

Portrait of a Japanese woman

Arno Nadel (born October 5, 1878 in Vilnius , Russian Empire ; died March 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a musicologist , writer and painter .

Life

The son of a mechanic had grown up in a world of Eastern Judaism. When Eduard Birnbaum in Königsberg he was in synagogalem singing taught. In 1895 he went to Berlin , where he attended the Jewish teacher training institute . He then worked as a teacher and musician. From 1916 he was director of the choir and cantor at the synagogue on Kottbusser Ufer . He collected and arranged Jewish folk songs and synagogue music . He has also published reviews and essays on music theory. In 1923 he was commissioned by the Berlin Jewish Community to compile an anthology of synagogue music. He completed this work in 1938. He intended to compendium Hallelujah! In seven volumes . Publish chants for Jewish worship . Nadel was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for several weeks in 1938 . Although he and his wife received the affidavits necessary for entry into the USA in 1940 , they were no longer able to emigrate under the extortionate emigration regulations. Nadel was used for forced labor in the library of the Reich Security Main Office in 1942 . On March 12, 1943, he and his wife Anna were deported to Auschwitz , where they were probably murdered immediately upon arrival. Nadel had given his archive and collection to the artist Käthe Kollwitz . The materials were destroyed by the effects of the war. A remnant of his musical estate is now in the Schreiber Jewish Music Library in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ). Another part is kept in the Archives Department of the National Library of Israel .

In addition to his musical and music-historical work, Arno Nadel created a literary work that consists of poems and plays and is influenced by Nadel's interest in philosophical and religious topics. He also translated from Yiddish . Nadel also worked as a painter and draftsman.

Works

• For the penultimate and final reasons. Berlin 1909
• Cagliostro. Berlin 1913
• About all of this. Munich [u. a.] 1914
• Adam. Leipzig 1917
• Jacob Steinhardt . Berlin 1920
• The year of the jew. Berlin 1920 (together with Joseph Budko )
• "The eye of the Jew is red and glowing". Berlin 1920
• The fall of man. Berlin 1920
• The sound. Leipzig 1921
• The Gothic ABC. Berlin 1923
• Holy proletariat. Constance 1924
• The redeemed. Berlin 1924
• Dances and incantations of the prophetic Dionysus. Berlin 1925
• Three eyes. Berlin 1932
• The poet's life. Berlin 1935
• The prophesying Dionysus. Heidelberg 1959; again in 1986

Editing

• Jonteff songs. Berlin 1919
• Jewish folk songs. Berlin (1920), volumes 1.1 and 1.2
• Jewish love songs. Berlin [u. a.] 1923
• The child's haggadah. Berlin 1933
• Zemirot šabat. The domestic sabbath songs. Collected and published. Berlin: Schocken, 1937

Translations

• Samuel Lewin : Hasidic Legend . Charlottenburg 1924
• Salomon An-ski : The Dybuk . Berlin 1921

literature

• Jascha Nemtsov : Arno Nadel. His contribution to Jewish musical culture. published by Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-89-7 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 77).
  • English translation by Jos Porath: Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-033-9 (= Jewish Miniatures , Volume 77A).
• Christine Zahn: Anyone who does not yet know the painter Arno Nadel knows about the poet and will find the musician in him. In: Jews in Kreuzberg. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89468-002-4 (= Series German Past , Volume 55: Sites of the History of Berlin . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from October 18 to December 29, 1991 in the Kreuzberg Museum , Berlin, published by of the Berlin history workshop , editor Andreas Ludwig ), pp. 299–304.
• Nadel, Arno. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 17: Meid – Phil. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22697-7 , pp. 250-257.
• Kerstin Schoor: From the literary center to the literary ghetto: German-Jewish literary culture in Berlin between 1933 and 1945 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0656-1 .
• Andreas Kilcher: Nadel, Arno. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 384-386.
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 945-959 .

Web links

Wikisource: Arno Nadel  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Arno Nadel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Arno Nadel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Arno Nadel in the JCS University Library Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica