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Cheskel Zwi Klötzel , also Hans Klötzel, Cheskel Zwi Kloetzel, (born February 8, 1891 in Berlin ; died October 27, 1951 in Jerusalem ) was a German journalist and children's book author.

BC 4ü . Experiences of a Railway Car (1929, first 1922)
Hans Baluschek : BC 4ü and the old Mr. Buffer Stop (1922)

Life

Hans Klötzel's father Hermann died early, and his mother Emilie moved with him and two younger children to Hamburg , where the children were housed in the German-Israelite Orphan Institute. He attended the Talmud Tora secondary school and completed a commercial apprenticeship and training at the Jewish teachers' college. He got his first job as a German teacher at the girls' school of the Aid Association of German Jews in Saloniki . He published his first travel book about it in 1920. Klötzel was a soldier in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 .

In 1919 he married Annette Loewenthal (1888–1970), the sister of his war comrade, the linguist John Loewenthal . They had a daughter, Katherina (Cary), who was born in 1919.

After the war, he published the bi-weekly youth magazine Bar Kochba from 1919 to 1921 and began to publish books for children and young people. In the illustrated book for young people BC 4ü - Experiences of a Railway Car, which deals with an express train carriage of the type BC 4ü , the reader is introduced to the world of railways , which was highly topical at the time . The book was in its eighth edition in 1929; in the era of National Socialism was not placed, but not on the list of banned books by Jewish authors performed. Klötzel was an editor at the Zionist Jüdische Rundschau from 1922 to 1929 and also wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung . He traveled to Europe, Central Asia and South America, of which he wrote correspondent reports and published books, and went to Palestine for the first time in 1930 . He wrote books for young people to prepare Jewish children for immigration to the British Mandate Palestine as part of the ( Aliyah Bet ).

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he emigrated to Palestine; his brother Erich had emigrated to Brazil in 1929 , and his sister Margarethe managed to emigrate to the USA in 1937.

Klötzel found it difficult in Palestine due to a lack of knowledge of Hebrew , but he was integrated into Jewish society through participation in the Hagana underground organization . He worked as Palestine correspondent for the foreign press, including for the German construction in New York, and was from October 1939 until his death in 1951 the editorial board of the English Palestine Post .

Fonts (selection)

  • In Salonika . Berlin: Jewish publishing house, 1920
  • with Moritz Steinhardt; Heinrich Loewe (ed.): The Jewish youth book . Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920
  • The road of ten thousand: With the Schmude expedition to Persia . Hamburg: Gebr. Enoch, 1925
  • India in melting pot . Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1930
Children's books
  • Moses Pipenbrink's Adventure: The Strange Adventures of a Young Jewish Boy . Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920
  • The Last Jew's Egg and Other Tales . Pictures by Ludwig Wronkow . Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920
  • BCC ü  : The story of a railroad car . Drawings by Hans Baluschek , cover Walter Biedermann . Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1922 (After 1925 and the change in the nomenclature of the Deutsche Reichsbahn under the title BC 4ü  : The experiences of a railway carriage . Several editions)
  • The mouse Lea
  • Barak, the filling . 1935
  • The Way to the Wailing Wall . 1935
  • Country view. New pictures of Palestine . Selected by Joseph Gal-Eser. With an introduction and accompanying texts by CZ Kloetzel. Tel-Aviv: Palestine Publishing Co. Ltd. 1937.
  • Colombus Ish Tel Aviv . 1938
  • Anjuraman: Report on a trip to the black and white Jews in Cochin . Mukačevo, ČSR: Nekudah Publishing House, 1938
  • A Jewish youth in Hamburg before the First World War . Hamburg: Association for Hamburg History, [1988?]

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Saur, Munich 1980, p. 371f.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Gabriele von Glasenapp : Klötzel, Cheskel Zwi. 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. 283-285.
  • Michael Nagel: Cheskel Zwi Klötzel, Moses Pipenbrink's Adventure. A youth novel between big city adventures and Zionist utopia. In: Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History, October 1, 2018. doi : 10.23691 / jgo: article-77.de.v1

Web links

Commons : Hans Baluschek: Illustrations for BC 4ü

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars-Broder Keil : The legacy of the immigrants. In: Die Welt , March 12, 2016, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Klötzel, CZ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klötzel, Hans (name at birth); Kloetzel, Cheskel Zwi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1951
Place of death Jerusalem