Avigdor Dagan

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Avigdor Dagan

Avigdor Dagan , Hebrew Hebrew אביגדור דגן, formerly Viktor Fišl or Viktor Fischl (born June 30, 1912 in Königgrätz , Austria-Hungary ; died May 28, 2006 in Jerusalem ) was a Czechoslovak poet , prose writer and publicist of Jewish origin and Israeli diplomat and ambassador .

Life

Viktor Fischl was born in Königgrätz, where he also attended secondary school. He then began his studies in Prague and later worked as a journalist and secretary of the Židovská strana (Jewish Party). After the German conquest of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he emigrated to London and worked there together in Jan Masaryk's Foreign Ministry in Czechoslovakia . After the end of the war he first returned to Czechoslovakia . In 1949 he emigrated to Israel. Its Hebrewized name is derived from dag 'fish'.

Dagan lived in Jerusalem , also served his new home as a diplomat, first as a secretary, then as counselor in Tokyo (1955–1959), as a chargé d'affaires in 1959 and 1960 in Burma . Dagan represented Israel as ambassador in Warsaw from 1961 to 1964 , in Belgrade from 1966 to 1967 and in Oslo from 1969 to 1972 . For three months in 1972 he worked as a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations . In 1974 he was sent to Vienna as an ambassador . This was his last diplomatic post.

After his retirement in 1977 he devoted himself only to literature. He wrote his narrative works exclusively in the Czech language, but translated some of them into German himself.

Fonts

He wrote several novels that describe the relationship with God and the search for one's own truth.

Published in German:

  • The fifth quarter
  • The court jesters , Roman. Knaur Taschenbuch, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-426-03220-1 .
  • Kafka in Jerusalem and other stories . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-60066-8 .
  • The rooster call
  • The music box
  • The storks in the rainbow
  • Conversations with Jan Masaryk . Thule, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-924345-02-3 .
  • Jerusalem stories

literature

  • Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 108f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Wiltmann (Ed.): Life stories from Israel. Twelve conversations ; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-39401-0 , pp. 137-139.
predecessor Office successor
? Israeli ambassador to Poland
1961–1964 		Dov Sattath
Yitzhak Patish Israeli ambassador to Austria Yaacov Doron
personal data
SURNAME Dagan, Avigdor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fišl, Viktor; Fischl, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet, prose writer and publicist of Jewish origin and Israeli diplomat and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Königgrätz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2006
Place of death Jerusalem , Israel