Richard Arnold Bermann

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Richard Arnold Bermann (born April 27, 1883 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 9, 1939 in Saratoga Springs , New York , USA ), better known under his pseudonym Arnold Höllriegel , was an Austrian journalist and travel writer.

Life

He grew up as the son of Moriz Bermann and Hannchen Friedlaender in Vienna and Prague, and studied Romance languages at the University of Vienna . After receiving his doctorate in 1906, he worked as a tutor in Italy for a while. In 1908 he went to Berlin on the advice of Hermann Bahr , where he initially worked as an employee of the Scherl publishing house . At the competition Berliner Tageblatt he began to write under the pseudonym Arnold Höllriegel. Shaped by the tradition of the Viennese feuilleton and the style of Peter Altenberg , he introduced the short feuilleton in Berlin. He soon became a permanent employee of the Berliner Tageblatt , but kept the pseudonym.

When the First World War broke out , Bermann had to return to Vienna, where he lived until 1928. He was able to find accommodation in the kuk war press quarters and wrote as a “pacifist war reporter” ( Hermann Broch ) for the Berliner Tageblatt , the Prager Tagblatt and the Wiener Die Zeit . He received the Franz Joseph Order and a Portuguese "Order of Savior".

From 1923 he worked mainly as a travel writer . His travels, which also took him to Egypt and Palestine (1923), the Amazon (1924), the South Seas (1925/26), New Zealand, the USA and Hollywood (1926), he processed in feature pages for the Berliner Tageblatt and in successful books. In 1933 an expedition took him together with Ladislaus Almásy (known as the " English patient ") to the Libyan desert , where they discovered the legendary oasis of Zarzura . Here, in the middle of the desert, he received notice from the Berliner Tageblatt in spring 1933 .

Bermann recognized the importance of film and radio early on. From Hollywood he reported, among other things, from his encounters with Charlie Chaplin . Leo Perutz was one of Bermann's friends . He describes his acquaintances with Sigmund Freud , Victor Adler and Arthur Schnitzler in his autobiography.

After 1933, Bermann worked with Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein for the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom . All of Berman's writings were banned in the Greater German Reich in 1938. After the annexation of Austria and his escape, he had to seek help from the Guild himself in 1938 . He was able to emigrate to the USA, where he died of a heart attack in the Yaddo artists' colony in autumn 1939 .

Works

  • Richard A. Bermann: The Hofmeister. The story of a decline. Publishing house Georg Müller, Munich u. Leipzig 1911.
  • Richard A. Bermann; Arthur Rundt : Palestine. A travel book. Tal, Leipzig 1923.
  • Richard A. Bermann: The jungle ship. A book from the Amazon River. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1927, with illustrations by Franz Heckendorf.
  • Arnold Höllriegel: The dervish drum. The life of the awaited Mahdi. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1931, cover designed by Josef Bato.
  • Arnold Hoellriegel: Charlie Chaplin - lights of the big city. EP Tal & Co Verlag, Leipzig / Vienna 1931.

The following works by Richard A. Bermann alias Arnold Höllriegel have recently appeared:

  • Arnold Höllriegel: Through the world in 80 lines. From neopathic cabaret to Hollywood. With photos by Hans G. Casparius . Edited by Christian Jäger and Gregor Streim. Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88747-133-4 .
  • Richard A. Bermann: The ride on the cataract. An autobiography without a hero. Published by Hans Harald Müller. Picus, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-423-4 .
  • Richard A. Bermann: Hollywood - Vienna and back. Features and reports. Edited by Hans Harald Müller and Andreas Stuhlmann. Picus, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85452-431-5 .
  • Richard A. Bermann: Zarzura. The oasis of the little birds. The story of an expedition into the Libyan desert. With the author's original “Saharafahrt” diary. Edited by Michael Farin . Belleville, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-936298-04-1 .
  • Arnold Höllriegel: You shouldn't make a portrait. A novel from Hollywood. Edited by Michael Grisko. Böschen's film novels, Giessen 2010, ISBN 978-3-932212-77-2 .
  • Richard Arnold Bermann (is) Arnold Höllriegel: Short stories and essays. Published by Robert Schmitt Scheubel, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937416-39-7 .
  • Arnold Höllriegel: America picture book. Edited by Michael Grisko. Photos by Hans G. Casparius. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1098-8 .

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Volume II, 1, Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 95.
  • Bermann, Richard Arnold. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 158-171.
  • Richard A. Bermann alias Arnold Höllriegel. Austrians - Democrats - Citizens of the world. An exhibition by the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 . Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-11297-1 .
Wikisource: Richard Arnold Bermann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors. P. 158.
  2. ^ List of harmful and undesirable literature, as of December 31, 1938. Page 10. Leipzig, 1938. Online publication of the list of publications banned by the National Socialists
personal data
SURNAME Bermann, Richard Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höllriegel, Arnold; Bermann, Richard A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1939
Place of death Saratoga Springs , New York