Eduard Kehlmann
Eduard Kehlmann (born December 15, 1882 in Zawale , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , † September 25, 1955 in Vienna ) was an Austrian expressionist writer .
Life
Eduard Kehlmann was born to Jewish parents but was baptized. He became an engineer and worked as an official in the postal and telegraph system in Vienna. At the same time he was active in literature. His family survived the time of National Socialism in Austria through bribery and forgery of documents, in which Eduard Kehlmann had himself declared as a so - called half - Jew , according to National Socialist diction .
Eduard Kehlmann is the father of the director Michael Kehlmann and the grandfather of the writer Daniel Kehlmann .
Works
- The novel of Mr. Franziskus Höndl , S. Fischer Verlag, 1912
- From Pauli to Palmarum , Roman, Berlin, Rowohlt Verlag, 1921
- Screenplay for the silent film Lucifer , based on a story by Grete Urbanitzky, Austria 1921
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Kehlmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eduard Kehlmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zawale is mentioned in Martin Pollack : Galizien. a journey through the vanished world of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-34447-0
- ↑ Adam Soboczynski : Help, I'll be portrayed! In: Die Zeit , No. 43/2008, portrait of Daniel Kehlmann
- ↑ Overview: Publications of the S. Fischer publishing house on Wikisource
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kehlmann, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zawale , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1955 |
| Place of death | Vienna |