Camill Hoffmann
Camill Hoffmann (also: Kamil Hoffmann ; born October 31, 1878 in Kolín , Austria-Hungary ; died October 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Bohemian-Czechoslovak journalist and writer .
Life
Camill Hoffmann translated from French (including Balzac , Baudelaire and Charles-Louis Philippe ) and Czech (editor of several works by Masaryk and Eduard Benesch ), was the features editor of the Viennese magazine Die Zeit and the Dresden Latest News from 1902–1919 , then for two years in the Press department of the Prague Ministerial Council, since 1920 (until 1938) Legation Councilor and press chief of the embassy of the Czechoslovakia in Berlin. Hoffmann was deported from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, occupied by the Germans, to Auschwitz and murdered there.
In 2016 a selection of his poems was reprinted together with a short biography in a German-Czech anthology. His hometown Kolín took over part of the printing costs. In May 2017 the band was presented in the Maisel Synagogue in Prague.
plant
- Adagio of silent evenings , 1902
- The vase , 1911
- German poetry from Austria , 1911
- Letters of Love , 1913
- Bells of my homeland , 1936.
- Political Diary 1932-1939 . Ed. and commented by Dieter Sudhoff , Alekto-Verlag. Klagenfurt 1995 (Edition Mnemosyne 4) ISBN 3-900743-90-8
literature
- Hoffmann, Camill. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 12: Hirs – Jaco. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22692-2 , pp. 179-187.
- Hoffmann Camill. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 376.
- Franz Peter Künzel: Hoffmann, Camill. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 403 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jürgen Serke : Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna and Hamburg 1987, ISBN 978-3-552-03926-1
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 565f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Camill Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Camill Hoffmann in the Gutenberg-DE project
- http://www.radio.cz/de/artikel/104593
- http://www.exilarchiv.de/DE/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=544%3Ahoffmann-camill&catid=24&lang=de
- Hoffmann, Camill. In: Theresienstadt Lexicon.
- Photo on deutsche-liebeslyrik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: German-Jewish authors in Czech translation - book presentation in the Maisel Synagogue in Prague with reading of poems by Camill Hoffmann, Rudolf Fuchs and Franz and Hans Janowitz . In: prag-aktuell.cz , May 30, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Camill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffmann, Kamil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian-Czechoslovakian writer, journalist, diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolín |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |