David Ignatz Neumann

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David Ignatz Neumann (born February 1, 1894 in Rust , Ödenburg County , † November 10, 1991 in Ramat Chen, Tel Aviv ) was an Austrian-Israeli poet , cutler and politician .

family

David Neumann came from a family of devout and Zionist- oriented Jews . His father was the businessman Moritz Rust, there were 40 rabbis among his relatives . Four of his siblings emigrated until shortly after the First World War for Palestine made.

Neumann married the widow Rudolfine Hofstädter in 1925. From the marriage came the two sons Moshe and Eli, who later continued the business of the company "David Neumann & Sons - Sharpener and Store of Cutlery" until the turn of the millennium. Rudolfine's son from his first marriage later became a member of the Haganah underground army .

Live and act

Neumann moved to Vienna with his family in 1901 . He joined the Zionist party Poale Zion ( Work for Zion ) as early as 1908 at the age of fourteen . At the beginning of the First World War he was drafted into the 76th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion Ödenburg . On the Western Front he took part in the loss-making fighting at Consenvoye in 1918 and returned to Vienna in November. Neumann was close to the "Jewish Club" in the Austrian Reichstag . When the Poale Zion party split into a Marxist and an extreme socialist wing in 1923, he joined the “Jewish State Party ”.

From December 1923 to February 1924 Neumann stayed in Palestine for the first time and sought official immigration. The immigration certificate of the British mandate power was required for immigration . Since he did not meet the requirements for obtaining a capitalist certificate, he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a cutler in Vienna in order to receive a craftsman certificate. After completing the necessary formalities, he traveled to Palestine in November 1927 and stayed there until the end of his life. His family followed in 1928. He was currently the only cutler in Tel Aviv and opened two shops. He was known as a craftsman and was later a dedicated helper in building up the country.

Neumann became a member of the General Zionist Party (the later Cherut or Likud ). As a devout Zionist, he remained politically active and socialist-oriented throughout his life.

In 1987 he was interviewed by Günter Unger for a report on ORF television . On the occasion of the anniversary of his 100th birthday, Neumann was honored with a commemoration ceremony in 1994 by the community of Rust.

Artistic work

Neumann wrote his first poem at the turn of the year 1913/14. During the First World War he wrote in an expressionist style about first love and horror of war.

In 1986 David Neumann commented on his first poems: “… Strange that I kept these poems in my mind. Years, many years, I didn't date my poems. I didn't take it seriously. "

While still in Vienna, as an ardent Zionist, he wrote a cycle of poems "The Prophet", twelve 4- to 7-stanza narrative and award poems about the repeated commission to those called who tried to evade his calling - like the prophet Jonas. The cycle later became part of the great work "Bitter Melodie", which, however, was only published in 1990. At that time in Vienna, however, Neumann spoke emphatically of the hopes for the promised land:

“So know. I turn the fate. Jehuda's corridors turn green again. A moon of joy is coming. - In the month of Aw the children will go into the woods. "

When the first refugees from Nazi Germany came to Palestine towards the end of the 1930s, Neumann wrote the poem "Language, my mother tongue":

"Since insanity has been rampant in Germany, which is increasing daily, the world has been consumed by the poison of murder madness and violence."

From 1948 Neumann offered his texts to German publishers and magazines for publication. First - in vain - the Bermann-Fischer Verlag, later the Deutsche Rundschau magazine . Their lector for literature, Harry Pross , published two poems by Neumann in 1958. It was also Pross who later initiated two programs with Neumann's poems on Radio Bremen (November 29, 1965 and November 18, 1966). Individual poems appeared in the magazine of the Ragaz-Kreis in Zurich , and also in a small Berlin publisher. A first overview of the breadth and depth of his work was given - for the first time in book form - by a private print from 1987. Since 1988 a selection with biography and backgrounds as well as two of his poetry volumes have been published by Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt-Wien.

Neumann's literary estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach , while the personal estate was given to the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt.

Publications

  • Circle of Sehnsucht , Berlin, 1986
  • One life - one work. With a foreword “How it came to be” on the creation of the book, by Gerhard Hessel, Hans D. Schell and Johannes A. Schürmann; with a biographical outline of Manfred Seidler and Gerhard Hessel. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt and Vienna 1987
  • Bitter melody. A cycle of poems on the history of Israel . With a foreword by Günter Unger. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt and Vienna 1990
  • Trifles. Importance . Fifty poems, selected and introduced by Manfred Seidler. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt and Vienna 1990
  • Late harvest . Poems from the years 1989–1992, selected by Günter Unger. Edition Roetzer, Eisenstadt and Vienna 1992

Exhibitions

  • In “200 Years of Jewish Soldiers in Austria”, Austrian Jewish Museum Eisenstadt, 1989
  • In “Austrian Poets in Exile”, Literaturhaus Wien, May 1992
  • “David Neumann - On the 100th Birthday”, Austrian Jewish Museum Eisenstadt, May 1994

literature

  • Memories of David I. Neumann of his time as a soldier in the First World War ; in Habsburgs Jewish soldiers 1788–1918 , eds. Erwin A. Schmidl, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79567-4
  • “My life” and sixteen other poems by David Neumann , in “Wortmühle 1–4 / 87. Literature sheets from Burgenland ”, ed. Günter Unger

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i DAVID NEUMANN - BIOGRAPHY / CV. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b The Jewish families in Rust. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bitter melody. Retrieved September 11, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Erwin A. Schmidl: Habsburgs Jewish soldiers. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, David Ignatz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli poet, cutler and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Rust , Sopron County
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1991
Place of death Ramat Chen, Tel Aviv