Arthur Sakheim

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Arthur Sakheim (born October 27, 1889 in Libau ; died August 23, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German writer, journalist and dramaturge.

Life

After attending school in his hometown of Libau , Sakheim began to study history, philosophy and linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He later switched to the Sorbonne with the same subjects and was able to successfully complete his studies in 1908 with a dissertation on ETA Hoffmann at the University of Zurich .

Then Sakheim lived for a few years in Hamburg and worked there as a journalist for the magazine Der Freihafen . During this time he also began to write for the theater; he also acted as a dramaturge for the Hamburger Kammerspiele . About his work Sakheim u. a. the acquaintance of the journalists Emil Faktor and Egon Erwin Kisch .

After the First World War , Sakheim found a job as an editor for the magazine Blätter der Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main. From there he came to the Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt) under contract in 1926 .

In the summer of 1931 he was dismissed without notice by the theater manager, himself of Jewish origin, because of his “un-German” schedule . During his summer vacation in Hiddensee, he fell ill with appendicitis. Soon after the operation, he developed pneumonia; he died on August 23, 1931 in the Charité in Berlin.

Posthumous

His widow Anuta (née Plotkin; 1896 in Lodz) found a job with Ullstein-Verlag ; she worked there until the Nazi regime brought about the dismissal of the Jewish employees after it came to power . Anuta and son George (born June 12, 1923 in Hamburg; died December 5, 2019 in Lansdale , Pennsylvania ) emigrated to Palestine; Anuta worked there as a taxi driver and tour guide. She fell ill and in April 1938 accepted her sister-in-law, Arthur's sister, to accept George. She committed suicide in September 1939. George returned to Germany in 1944 as a soldier with the 104th Infantry Division . His unit fought near Aachen and Cologne and liberated the Nordhausen concentration camp . He later worked as an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials .

In 2007 there was an exhibition in the Hamburg State and University Library entitled Profound Knowledge and Burning Love. The theater critic, writer and dramaturge Arthur Sakheim .

Works

  • 1908: ETA Hoffmann. Studies of his personality and his works . H. Haessel , Leipzig 1908.
  • 1911: masks. Hamburg actor portraits . Janssen, Hamburg 1911.
  • 1912: Marion in red. A little novel . G. Müller, Munich 1912.
  • 1913: The five comedies by Marquardt van Vryndt . Reissner, Dresden 1913.
  • 1919: Expressionism, Futurism, Activism. 3 lectures . Bimini-Verlag, Hamburg 1919
  • 1920: pilgrims and gamblers. A comedy in 10 pictures (4 acts) . Bimini-Verlag, Hamburg 1920. First edition: Erich Reiss, Berlin 1915
  • 1921: Art and Social Revolution . Konrad-Hanf-Verlag, Hamburg 1921.
  • 1921: Pourceaugnac on free feet. Comedy in 3 acts . Konrad-Hanf-Verlag, Hamburg 1921 (freely adapted from Molière )
  • 1924: The Jewish element in world literature. 7 lectures . Hafez publishing house, Goldschmidt bookstore, Hamburg 1924.
  • 1929: The tzaddik. A drama in 3 acts . J. Kauffmann Publishing House , Frankfurt am Main 1929.

literature

  • Ursula Wamser, Wilfried Weinke (Ed.): A vanished world. Jewish life on the Grindel . To Klampen Verlag, Springe 2006, ISBN 3-934920-98-5 .
  • Wilfried Weinke: Sakheim, Arthur. 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. 440f.
  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1101 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 688.
  2. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/6l4vZxUiS
  3. ↑ Richard Sandomir: George Sakheim, Interpreter at Nuremberg Trials, Dies at 96. In: The New York Times , December 27, 2019 (English). Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b www.juedische-allgemeine.de
  5. ↑ one day (spiegel.de) / Katja Iken: "Inside I was cooking"
  6. ↑ uni-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Sakheim, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1931
Place of death Berlin