David Josef Bach

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Josef Bach (born August 13, 1874 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † January 31, 1947 in London ) was a music writer and journalist .

Life

David Josef (Joseph) Bach was born in Lemberg as the son of hatmaker Eduard Bach and Henriette Bach (née Nelken). He grew up in Vienna. At the kk Staatsgymnasium in the 2nd district he befriended his classmate Arnold Schönberg around 1892 . With this he remained friends all his life. Bach studied philology and philosophy at the University of Vienna . He was also interested in the lectures of Ernst Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann and in experimental psychology . He received his doctorate in 1897 with the work The Problem of the Outside World with David Hume . After completing his studies, he worked as a writer and journalist. a. from 1904 in the Arbeiter-Zeitung , where he began as a music critic (successor to Josef Scheu ) and from 1917 to 1933 was chief editor (successor to Engelbert Pernerstorfer ). In 1905 he initiated the Workers' Symphony Concerts and from 1922 worked with Anton Webern . From 1906 to 1911 he was a member of the Psychological Wednesday Society . From 1918 to 1922 he edited the magazine “Der Merker” together with Julius Bittner . From 1919 to 1933 he headed the Social Democratic Art Agency and in 1933 became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .

In 1906 he married Gisela Cohn. In 1939 he was able to flee to England with his wife, where he continued to be politically active. His sister Eveline (Eva), as well as her husband, the architect Arthur Schönberg, a cousin of Arnold Schönberg, and Bella Cohn, a sister of his wife, a piano teacher, were murdered in concentration camps . From 1940 he regularly organized chamber concerts at the Austrian Labor Club in London.

After 1945 nothing was done to enable Bach to return to Austria.

Works

  • Art and people. A festival edition by the Kunststelle for the 1000th theater performance. Vienna 1923
  • The spherical person. The film area: fantasies and thoughts . Vienna 1938

literature

  • Henriette Kotlan-Werner: Art and People. David Josef Bach 1874–1947. Materials on the labor movement, 6th foreword Hertha Firnberg , Vienna 1977
  • Madeleine Wolensky : Engelbert Pernerstorfer and David Josef Bach as theater critics for the Arbeiter-Zeitung. (Phil. Diss. Vienna 1980)
  • Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Austrian Music in Exile. Exemplary studies on the expulsion of Austrian musicians . Vienna 1993, p. 162f.
  • Ursula Kutzer: From Karl Ausch to Stefan Wirlander. 34 biographies of Austrian journalists in exile in Great Britain from 1933. Diploma thesis, Vienna 1995
  • Red tears. The destruction of working-class culture by fascism and national socialism. Results of the international conference of the same name in memoriam Herbert Exenberger 14. – 15. November 2014. Series: Zwischenwelt, 14. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Vienna and Drava Verlag , Klagenfurt 2017 ISBN 978-3-85435-832-9 (Bach passim, see the list of people at the end, 12 mentions, many multi-page)
  • Bach, David Joseph. 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. 281-283.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 30

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hartmut Krones: Anton Webern, the “Viennese School” and the working-class culture. In: Hartmut Krones: Anton Webern: Personality Between Art and Politics. Vienna 1999. p. 51f
  2. ↑ David Josef Bach. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
personal data
SURNAME Bach, David Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bach, David Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1947
Place of death London , England