Bruno Adler (literary scholar)

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Bruno Maria Adler , anagram and pseudonym Urban Roedl (born October 14, 1889 in Karlsbad , Austria-Hungary ; died December 27, 1968 in London ) was a German art historian , literary scholar and radio editor on the BBC's German program .

Life

Adler completed his studies in Vienna, Erlangen and Munich in 1917 with a doctorate. Between 1920 and 1930 he taught art history at the State Art Academy in Weimar . For Johannes Itten , who worked at the Bauhaus , Adler was the publisher of Utopia Verlag in 1921 and the editor of a programmatic publication Utopia: Documents of Reality (Itten: to experience a work of art means to relive it ), for which Adler translated from Rigveda and Nikolaus von Kues . During this time, Adler was also the editor of works by Adalbert Stifter and Matthias Claudius .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in Germany, Adler had to flee to Prague . In 1936 he went to England . When Ernst Rowohlt published the biography of Adalbert Stifter under Adler's pseudonym Urban Roedl, Rowohlt was banned from his profession, as the publisher was accused of camouflaging Jewish writers. Adler was at times a teacher at the Bunce Court School (also called New Herrlingen School ), a rural school founded by Anna Essinger for emigrated Jewish children .

During the Second World War , Adler worked in the German-speaking department of the BBC . Adler was the inventor of the fictional character Frau Wernicke , which was broadcast between the summer of 1940 and January 1944 in the women's program of the "German Service". Frau Wernicke, spoken by the emigrated Berlin actress Annemarie Hase , portrays a petty bourgeois Berlin who, with a loose mouth and common sense, made the Nazis look ridiculous. "Kurt und Willi" wrote Roedl together with the English poet Norman Cameron , this series too was based on the everyday life of the German population. He was the editor of the magazine "Neue Auslese", which was published by the Allied Information Service.

The biography dedicated to his wife Ilse Katz was reissued in Germany in 1958. Adler recalled in the foreword that at the time one of the reviewers wanted to “simply render the author harmless”. Under the pseudonym Urban Roedl, Bruno Adler was also the author of the Rowohlt monograph on Adalbert Stifter published in 1965 , which he dedicated to Erich Heller .

Fonts (selection)

as Bruno Adler:

  • Gustave Flaubert , The saga of St. Julian, the hospitable , transl. By Bruno Maria Adler. Intruded Woodcut by Walther Klemm. Weimar: M. Biewald 1923
  • Battle for Polna. A factual novel. Prague. Kacha Verlag 1934.
  • The Weimar Bauhaus , Darmstadt: Bauhaus Archive 1965
  • (Ed.) Utopia: Documents of Reality , Martin Biewald: Weimar 1921; Munich: Kraus reprint 1980
  • Matthias Claudius . Works, Utopia-Verl. Weimar 1924
  • Mrs. Wernicke: Comments from a "People's Yenossess"

as Urban Roedl:

  • Adalbert Stifter: History of his life , Bern: Francke, 1958
  • Matthias Claudius: his way and his world , Berlin: Wolff, 1934
  • Adalbert Stifter in self-testimonies and photo documents, presented by Urban Roedl , Rowohlt: Reinbek bei Hamburg. 1965
  • Jodel-Franz , (with Billy Dongen). Munich: Ed. Island Clay, 1955
  • Mrs. Wernicke: Comments from a "Volksjenossin , Mannheim: Persona-Verl. 1990
  • Battle for Polna: a factual novel , Prague: Kacha Prague 1934

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 8
  • Joachim W. Storck : Adalbert Stifter in exile. Urban Roedl (Bruno Adler) as founder-biographer and founder-interpreter , in: Johann Lachinger [Hrsg.], Adalbert Stifter - studies on its reception and effect , Colloquium II series of publications of the Adalbert-Stifter-Institute of the Province of Upper Austria; 40 2002
  • Joachim W. Storck: Adler, Bruno Maria. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 6-8.
  • Joachim W. Storck: Bruno Adler (Urban Roedl). In: Margarita Pazi u. Hans Dieter Zimmermann (Ed.): Berlin and the Prague Circle. Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 1991. ISBN 3-884-79597-X . Pp. 211-224.
  • Jennifer Taylor: The 'End Sieg' as Ever-Receding Goal. Literary Propaganda by Bruno Adler and Robert Lucas for BBC Radio. In: Ian Wallace (Ed.): German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain. Rodopi, Amsterdam a. Atlanta 1999. (= The Yearbook of the Research Center for German and Austrian Exile Studies. 1.) ISBN 90-420-0415-0 . ISSN  1388-3720 . Pp. 43-57.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 1: A – K. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 .
  • Adler, Bruno. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 34-37.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna's children , in The Guardian , accessed June 9, 2016
  2. ↑ The series "Letters of Private Hirnschal" with the emigrated Viennese actor Fritz Schrecker as speaker came from Robert Lucas . See Ulrike Oedl, Theater im Exil - Austrian Exile Theater at: University of Salzburg, literaturepochen, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roedl, Urban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1968
Place of death London