Arthur Feldmann

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Arthur Feldmann (born July 14, 1926 in Vienna , † October 23, 2012 in Paris ) was a German-speaking writer of Austrian- Jewish origin. He mainly wrote aphorisms and epigrams , but also surreal short stories. Since April 1939 he lived in exile: until 1947 as Aharon Shadmoni in what is now Israel , then as André Chademony in France .

life and work

Arthur Feldmann was born in Vienna in 1926 to Eastern Jewish parents. He attended the predominantly Christian elementary school, then the Jewish Chajes grammar school .

In his memoirs (in the estate ) Arthur Feldmann describes how he suffered from rampant anti-Semitism as a primary school student. In 1938, his parents' marriage was declared invalid and he was officially listed under the name Arthur Israel Scherz , i.e. his mother's maiden name. After the November pogroms , the lives of Jews in Vienna were in acute danger; in April 1939 he was finally able to leave Austria.

He lived under the name Aharon Shadmoni in what is today Israel, initially in the children's and youth village Ben Shemen as a student of (among others) Ludwig Strauss and Yizhar Smilansky ; 1944–1945 he worked in Kibbutz Ginegar, then in a factory in Tel Aviv . He also attended evening grammar school and graduated from high school in 1947 (in English). The name “Shadmoni” (שַׁדְמוֹנִי) is probably based on the word “shedema” (שְׁדֵמָה), which means “cornfield / plantation”; it occurs once in the Torah, in the form “shadmot” (שַׁדְמוֹת) ( Dtn 32,32  OT.SLT.ESV ). The suffix "- [n] i" forms adjectives and nouns of affiliation, such as "angli" for "English / English".

From the end of 1947 he lived in France under the name André Chademony . “Chademony” is apparently the French spelling of “Shadmoni”.

Feldmann studied German, English and political science in Paris. 1954–1958 and again 1960–1986 he taught at various high schools in France, first in the provinces, then in Paris.

In 1956 he received French citizenship as Aron Chademony .

1958–1960 Arthur Feldmann lived in Heidelberg on a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to work on Alfred Mombert . Here he also got to know Sepp Gregor ; since then he has been involved in the Klingende Brücke , especially as a connoisseur and interpreter of Yiddish songs.

Arthur Feldmann was married to Rita Chademony (1925–1999), b. Sonntag, Professor of German Studies and Linguistics at the Sorbonne ; they had two daughters.

A great passion of Arthur Feldmann was classical music. He played several viols and several flutes and he sang in the Ensemble Vocal Stéphane Caillat . He regularly took part in national and international music weeks well into old age.

Since the mid-1960s, Feldmann has been pouring his diary entries in the form of epigrams and aphorisms. It was important to him not to see these as isolated fragments of thought, but rather in a mutual context, which he expressed in the structure and table of contents of his publications; so he also modified some of his aphorisms in order - to put it differently - to put them in a new context. Although he had spoken Hebrew , English and finally mostly French in everyday life since his emigration , he published his texts under the name and in the language of his youth, which the National Socialists in Vienna had taken from him; in this respect he is one of the last representatives of the Jewish-German exile literature .

He brought his texts to life in regular readings and panel discussions, including in Munich, Vienna, Ulm, Regensburg and Mannheim, most recently on May 18, 2011 in Freiburg.

Arthur Feldmann is buried as Aron Chademony on the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux (location: Division 64, 13th row, 23rd grave).

Works

Publications

  • “Short messages from the killer pit or The great fashion show of the naked kings”, 1993, edition scaneg , ISBN 3-89235-511-8
  • "Dragons taming or between sense and madness - satires", 1997, Tatjana-Lehmann-Verlag , ISBN 3-9804897-2-8
  • "Fragments: attempted recovery", private print , Augsburg 1998
  • “Reflections: Thoughtful reflections on an autumn leaf about the hustle and bustle of the world”, 2004, Tatjana-Lehmann-Verlag , ISBN 3-9804897-4-4
  • “Siamesische Twins”, 2009, Tatjana-Lehmann-Verlag
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estate

Feldmann's estate includes manuscripts of his aphorisms in different processing phases, notebooks and workbooks (from 1958), as well as correspondence with publishers, professors of the Sorbonne and fellow writers (including letters from Elias Canetti , Hilde Domin , Luise Rinser and Michael Ende ).

The estate is in the Austrian Exile Library in the Literaturhaus Wien.

literature

  • Gottfried Knapp: The winter supply of the cricket , Süddeutsche Zeitung 21. – 23. May 1994 ISSN  0174-4917
  • Wolfgang Mieder : "The wolf is a human being to the wolf": On the proverbial aphorisms by Arthur Feldmann. Zs. Austria in Geschichte und Literatur, 44, 2000 ISSN  0029-8743 pp. 32-47. Also in W. Mieder: aphorisms, proverbs, quotations. From Goethe and Schiller to Victor Klemperer. ISBN 3-906758-66-4 pp. 257-295.
  • Wolfgang Mieder: “'Time Heals All Wounds'? The Proverbial Aphorisms of Arthur Feldmann. ”, The Bulletin of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont (PDF; 967 kB), 5, No. 1 (2000), pp. 4–5
  • Wolfgang Mieder: “A writer with a cut off German tongue”: On the late networking of the exile author Arthur Feldmann . In: Helga Schreckenberger (Ed.): Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany . Continuities, Reorientations, and Collaborations in Exile (=  Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies . Volume 87 ). Brill, Leiden 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-32273-8 .
  • Society of the Klingenden Brücke (ed.): Association notes (PDF; 989 kB), No. 3, 2012, pp. 18–22
  • Klaus & Ulrike Voswinckel (eds.): André Chademony: Arthur Feldmann (1926–2012) as a reminder , private print, Munich 2013
  • Christiane Wyrwa: He was a writer with a cut off German tongue, in the magazine: Exil. Research, findings, results, 2, 2012 ISSN  0721-6742 pp. 86–90
  • Christiane Wyrwa: Arthur Feldmann 1926–2012. Life and Works , 2013, accessed December 12, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facsimile of the identity card in Voswinckel (ed.): "André Chademony: Arthur Feldmann (1926–2012): To Remember", p. 58
  2. ↑ Les artistes d'Eol - Ensemble Vocal Stéphane CAILLAT. Eclats d'Orgue à Lévis-Saint-Nom, accessed on 23 September 2018 (French).
  3. ^ Event directory of the France Center at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  4. ↑ VIAF database
  5. ↑ Jana Waldhör: Arthur Feldmann. Estate N1.EB-95. Literaturhaus Wien , accessed on May 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Feldmann, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shadmoni, Aharon; Chademony, André; Scherz, Arthur Israel; Shadmoni, Aron; Chademony, Aron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2012
Place of death Paris , France