Daniel Brody (publisher)

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Daniel Brody (born December 25, 1883 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † 1969 in Sorengo , Switzerland ) was a Hungarian publisher.

Life

Brody inherited from his uncle Zsigmond Bródy (1840-1906) newspaper and publishing house "Neues Pest Journal" and became its editor-in-chief . During the First World War, he was also in charge of rationed paper distribution in the Kingdom of Hungary . After 1918 he emigrated from Hungary and from 1920 to 1925 he was commercial director at Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig .

In 1929 he acquired the Rhein-Verlag Basel, which he relocated first in Munich and later in Zurich . The publishing house owned the German-language rights to the work of James Joyce , whose works Brody wanted to publish in German-speaking countries. In 1931/32 he published Hermann Broch's first novel ( Die Schlafwandler ) and established a collaboration and friendship with Broch until his death in 1951. Brody paid tribute to the author with a ten-volume edition of his work by Rhein-Verlag, published in 1961, ten years after Broch's death , was completed.

After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, he had to emigrate again in 1936. In the following years he tried to get back to work as a publisher in various places of his emigre life, but he did not succeed: 1938 in Lugano , 1939 in London and The Hague , 1942 in Mexico City , 1946 in New York . In 1947 he was able to return to Switzerland and until 1963 was again head of the Rhein-Verlag, which his sister Serena Szabó and Gregor Edlin had managed.

Together with Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Daniel Brody published the first annual volumes of the Eranos conferences from 1933 and thus laid the foundation for a series of publications by the Eranos Foundation that has continued to this day .

Since 1909 he was married to Desirée ( Daisy ) Spitz, who in 1925 created the first German translation of Sinclair Lewis ' "Babbitt" in Munich. They had four surviving children, Ilonka Brody, who studied modern expressive dance in the tradition of Hellerau-Laxenburg and ran a dance studio in Mexico DF, Dr. Janos Sigmund (Jancsi - Engl .: Ian) Brody, pediatrician who lived as a "flying doctor" in Australia, Peter Istvan Brody, silversmith, publisher and industrialist in Vienna and his youngest son was Thomas Brody (1922–1988), professor for Nuclear Physics at the Autonomous University of Mexico .

Fonts (selection)

  • Spirit and work . Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1958.

literature

  • Brody, Daniel. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 145-146.
  • Spirit and work. From the workshop of our authors. For the 75th birthday of Dr. Daniel Brody. Rhein-Verlag, Zurich 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bródy, Zsigmond. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 1972, Volume 4, Col. 1401.
  2. ^ Friendship in exile: Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch . (= Thomas Mann Studies. Volume 31), Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, p. 42, note 1.
  3. ^ Hermann Broch - Daniel Brody correspondence 1930-1951
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Rothe: Hermann Broch's fame - a misunderstanding? . In: The time . January 12, 1962. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
  5. ^ The Eranos Yearbook (PDF) 1955. Accessed November 28, 2014.
  6. ↑ Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt . Dieter Wunderlich. 2006. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Brody, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian founder and publisher of Rhein Verlag
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1969
Place of death Lugano , Switzerland