Eduard Michael Kafka

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Eduard Michael Joseph Kafka (born March 11, 1869 in Vienna ; † August 3, 1893 in Brno ) was the editor of the magazine Moderne Dichtung (later Modern Rundschau ) and editor of the magazine Allgemeine Kunstchronik. He also wrote under the pseudonym Siegwin Freimuth .

Beginnings

Modern seal, envelope, July 1, 1890

Kafka came as the illegitimate child of the actress Maria Theresia Constantin (July 28, 1848 - January 17, 1910 in Vienna, daughter of Michael C. and Maria, née Binder) and the manufacturer Eduard Kafka (son of Heinrich K. and Carolina Pollak) in Vienna to the world. By converting the mother to Judaism (October 18, 1869, now with the first name "Sara") and subsequent marriage of the parents on November 28th. J. he was subsequently legitimized. He had a brother, Ferdinand, who was serving as a dragoon at the time of his death.

First, Eduard Michael Kafka studied at the textile school in Brno before he enrolled at the University of Vienna for political science, art history and philosophy. From 1888 he began to appear as a journalist. He was in correspondence with Hermann Bahr, who was then living in Paris , in which he asked Bahr to help “modern” poetry ( naturalism ) achieve a breakthrough in Austria if he was to found a new literature in Austria.

Modern poetry and modern review

Title page, July 1, 1890
Advertisement of the 1st issue of the Modern Rundschau
Page header of the first issue of the Modern Rundschau, April 1, 1891

With this aim in mind, Kafka published the monthly for literature and criticism in Brno from 1890 under the title Modern Poetry . From her 2nd year she appeared twice a month as Moderne Rundschau in Vienna. In their first issue, the two editors, Kafka and Jacques Joachim , affirmed their intention “to grasp the entire life of the time in its context and to unfold a true picture of the tremendous upheaval that the modern spirit has caused in our entire world of perception”.

Friedrich M. Fels acted as the editor of this magazine , employees included Ludwig Anzengruber , Wilhelm Bölsche , Michael Georg Conrad , Richard Dehmel , Gerhart Hauptmann , Adolf Pichler , Ferdinand von Saar , Felix Salten and Arthur Schnitzler .

In December 1891, the magazine has been set, the subscribers were asked now by S. Fischer relocated Free Theater to subscribe: "With present booklet includes> Modern Rundschau <in its present form to the January 1, 1892 from a monthly Free Stage for the development struggle of the time to appear in the publishing house of S. Fischer in Berlin. "

additional

In April 1891, Kafka was one of the organizers of the banquet in honor of Henrik Ibsen on the occasion of the Vienna performance of the Crown Pretenders . With Bahr he organized a performance of Maeterlinck's La princesse Maleine in the theater in the Josephstadt in Vienna in 1892 .

As a critic of culture and society, Kafka found himself confirmed in naturalism, but warned against a cult of the nerves and propagated a healthy society supported by the individual in complete freedom. He thought of solving social questions without any interference from the state. So he can be addressed as a social liberal. In this spirit he presented the socio-political trains of thought and upheavals of the Vienna Revolution of 1848/1849 , especially in the figure of Hans Kudlich (politician, 1823) .

Works

  • Hans Kudlich and the Austrian peasant liberation . 1888
  • Hieroglyphics, modern fairy tales . 1890
  • The individualism . 1891.
  • Modern poetry online

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wrong in the literature as 1864. See his baptism entry, picture 03-Taufe_0195 in the baptism book
  2. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1910-01-19, page 21. Accessed on May 30, 2017 .
  3. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neues Wiener Tagblatt (daily edition), 1910-01-18, page 37. Retrieved on May 30, 2017 .
  4. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Aussen-Blatt, 1869-12-01, page 26. Retrieved on May 30, 2017 .
  5. Austrian National Library: ANNO, Mährisches Tagblatt, 1893-08-05, page 4. Retrieved on May 30, 2017 .