Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici [pronounced: Rabinowitsch , according to the pronunciation of the Romanian name] (born December 2, 1961 in Tel Aviv ) is an Austrian writer and historian who has lived in Vienna since 1964 . His prose includes short stories, novels and essays.
Life
Doron Rabinovici was born in Tel Aviv in 1961 . He has lived in Vienna since 1964.
Rabinovici studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 2000 with the historical work “Instances of Powerlessness. The Viennese Jewish community leadership 1938 to 1945 and their reaction to the National Socialist persecution and extermination ”. The dissertation was published in the Jewish publishing house near Suhrkamp under the title “Instances of Powerlessness: Vienna 1938-1945. The way to the Judenrat ”published.
Doron Rabinovici is an author of the present, not only literary texts writes as the short story collection Papírník (1994) or the novels searching for M . (1999), Ohnehin (2004), Andernorts (2010) and Die Extrairdischen , but also numerous non-fictional texts in which he takes a stand on developments in Austria and on politics. In it he also provides information on Jewish identity, but also on poetological considerations, such as his intention to write or the role of literature .
Rabinovici's first novel, Suche nach M, from 1997 already deals with the aftermath of annihilation. His other novels also repeatedly deal with the handling of memory, the Nazi past, foreignness, migration , right-wing extremism in Austria , and Jewish life in Vienna .
In 2013–14 he initiated and designed - together with Matthias Hartmann - the contemporary witness production The Last Witnesses at the Burgtheater; the production referred to the November pogroms in 1938 , which were 75 years old in 2013, was highly valued by the public and the press and was invited to the 2014 Berlin Theatertreffen :
“This is staged very carefully in Vienna, dispenses with a theatrical garnish, is narrative in the best sense of the word - and therefore has nothing of dutiful memory distortion with automatic concern. "The Last Witnesses" is a haunting but also fragile (theatrical) document. "
In 2018, Doron Rabinovici presented an idea by Florian Klenk , the Drama Collage "Anything can happen. A political theater "together, a mosaic of speeches and statements by racist populist government politicians in Europe , which openly reveals the nature and intentions of this policy. The reading is only commented on by individual quotations from Hannah Arendt , Viktor Klemperer and Erich Kästner and is framed by a few sentences from Rabinovici. "Anything can happen" was performed several times in the Burgtheater .
Doron Rabinovici is a member of the board of the Graz authors' assembly .
Since 1986 he has been a speaker in the Republican Club - New Austria against anti-Semitism , racism , homophobia and right-wing populism . As a committed intellectual, Rabinovici called for a large demonstration "No to a coalition with racism" in 2000 in protest against the participation of the FPÖ in government .
Doron Rabinovici's mother, Schoschana Rabinovici , comes from Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania , survived the ghetto , concentration camp and the death march and came to Israel in the 1950s . Schoschana Rabinovici described the story of her survival in her book “Thanks to my mother”. His father managed to get from Romania to Palestine in 1944.
Works
Fiction
- Papirnik. Stories Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-518-11889-7
- Search for M. Roman in twelve episodes . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-518-40850-X
- Instances of fainting. Vienna 1938-1945. The way to the Judenrat . Historical study, Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-633-54162-4 (also Diss. Phil. University of Vienna 2000)
- Republic of Courage. Wider die Verhaiderung (edited together with Robert Misik ), Construction Taschenbuch Verlag , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-7027-6
- Austria: reports from quarantines . Joint editor with Doron Rabinovici. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 978-3-518-12184-9 .
- Credo and Credit. Meddling . Essays, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-518-12216-9
- Anyway . Novel . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-518-45736-5
- New anti-Semitism? A global debate (edited jointly with Ulrich Speck and Natan Sznaider ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3518123866
- Eternal resistance. About a contentious term . Styria, 2008 ISBN 978-3-222-13239-1
- The Jooloomooloo . Children's book with illustrations by Christina Gschwantner, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-200-01231-8
- Brigitte Lehmann, Doron Rabinovici, Sibylle Summer (eds.): From the art of nest pollution. Documents against resentment and racism since 1986. Löcker, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85409-496-8 .
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Elsewhere. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42175-8 (nominated for the German Book Prize 2010 )
- About this conversation with Tim Schomacker: "The text is under suspicion" ... A conversation about attacks on memory and cats that look like Hitler. in Konkret (magazine) , # 1, January 2011, p. 59f.
- Herzl relo @ ded - No fairy tale (with Natan Sznaider ). Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-633-54276-5 .
- The aliens. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42761-3
- Retelling of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift , with illustrations by Flix; Insel near Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458200260
- “Anything can happen!” A political theater . based on an idea and with an afterword by Florian Klenk. Zsolnay, Vienna, 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-05943-6
- New anti-Semitism? Continuation of a global debate (edited jointly with Christian Heilbronn and Natan Sznaider). Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-12740-7
- I like Rabinovici: To find languages . Special number, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-854-49524-6
Awards
- 1994: 3sat scholarship of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition
- 1997: Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Förderpreis
- 1998: Hermann Lenz Scholarship
- 2000: Prize for the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
- 2000: Sponsorship award for the Mörike Prize of the city of Fellbach
- 2000: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
- 2002: Clemens Brentano Prize
- 2002: Jean Améry Prize for Essay Writing
- 2007: Willy and Helga Sale-Verlon Prize
- 2009: Acknowledgment Prize of the City of Vienna together with Christina Gschwandtner as part of the Children's and Youth Prize
- 2010: Anton Wildgans Prize (awarded on September 9, 2011)
- 2015: Honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action
- 2017: Rosa Jochmann badge
- 2018: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature
literature
- Matthias Beilein: 86 and the consequences. Robert Schindel , Robert Menasse and Doron Rabinovici in the literary field of Austria , Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-09855-2 .
- Andreas Kilcher: Rabinovici, Doron. 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. 413-415.
Web links
- Literature by and about Doron Rabinovici in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.rabinovici.at official website of Doron Rabinovici
- Review on Suche nach M. by Claudia Holly for the Literaturhaus Wien
- Doron Rabinovici in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doron Rabinovici celebratory speech on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Treasure Chamber of Knowledge” for the 650th anniversary of the National Library
- FALTER RADIO Episode 33: Doron Rabinovici on the National Library
- for the opening of the permanent exhibition of the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt am Main
- Doron Rabinovici: How does resistance work? - # 138 , speech commemorating the Holocaust on January 24, 2019 in the Styrian state parliament, on falter-radio.libsyn.com
- “IN THE ZENTRUM” Mauthausen commemoration without FPÖ , on youtube.com
- WDR 3 (West German Broadcasting) mosaic. Conversation on Saturday, February 9, 2019
- Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from June 14, 2019: New anti-Semitism - finding, analysis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instances of fainting. Vienna 1938-1945. The way to the Judenrat . Historical study, Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-633-54162-4 .
- ↑ Selection of 10: The Last Witnesses , accessed on April 16, 2019.
- ↑ Schoschana Rabinovici: Thanks to my mother , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009., ISBN 978-3-596-80571-6 .
- ↑ Doron Rabinovici: On the grenades of the past , speech on the occasion of the award ceremony, in: Daily newspaper Der Standard , Vienna, September 17, 2011, supplement album , p. A 11.
- ↑ orf.at - Honorary Prize of the Book Trade to Rabinovici . Article dated October 9, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rabinovici, Doron |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Austrian historian and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |