Doron Rabinovici

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2010 in Frankfurt am Main

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 (2009)

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. "

- Jury of the Berlin Theatertreffen

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

Autograph

Fiction

Awards

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

Commons : Doron Rabinovici  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instances of fainting. Vienna 1938-1945. The way to the Judenrat . Historical study, Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-633-54162-4 .
  2. ↑ Selection of 10: The Last Witnesses , accessed on April 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Schoschana Rabinovici: Thanks to my mother , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009., ISBN 978-3-596-80571-6 .
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ orf.at - Honorary Prize of the Book Trade to Rabinovici . Article dated October 9, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rabinovici, Doron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-Austrian historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv