Ephraim Fresh

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Efraim Frisch (also: Ephraim Frisch. Pseudonyms : Alain; Fabian; Florian; Erhard Frischauer; EH Gast; E. Lach; Victor Spectator; born March 1, 1873 in Stryj , Austria-Hungary ; died November 26, 1942 in Ascona ) an Austrian writer .

Life

Efraim Frisch came from an Orthodox Jewish family. After graduating from Brody in 1894 , he began training as a rabbi in Vienna , which he broke off after a short time. He began studying law at the University of Vienna , then switched to the subjects of philosophy , art and literary history, which he studied at the University of Berlin from 1895 to 1900 , and to economics , which he studied in Kiel in 1900 .

From 1900 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. He also worked as an editor for the publishers Cassirer , S. Fischer and Felix Bloch Erben . He was friends with Martin Buber and Christian Morgenstern , in whose magazine " Das Theater in Berlin " he played a major role. From 1904 to 1909 he was dramaturge at Max Reinhardt's " Deutschem Theater ". In 1912 he moved to Munich, where he worked as an editor for the Georg Müller publishing house . In 1914 he was co-founder of the cultural magazine " Der neue Merkur ", which he was editor of until 1916 and again from 1919 to 1925 . During the First World War he did his military service as a medic.

In the 1920s, Frisch wrote theater reviews for the " Berliner Börsen-Courier " until 1923 and feuilletons for the " Frankfurter Zeitung " from 1925 to 1930 , in addition to translating from French. From 1929 to 1933 he lived again in Berlin, where he was literary editor of the European Review from 1930 to 1931 . Fresh emigrated after the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 in the Switzerland . He lived in Ascona , but did not receive a work permit and was forced to publish his work under various pseudonyms in Swiss newspapers and magazines as well as in organs of the exile press . His economic situation deteriorated dramatically over the years, so that he had to rely on financial support from friends and grants from the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom . There were also health problems: from 1939 on, Frisch suffered from muscular dystrophy , which meant that he was dependent on a wheelchair from 1941 onwards.

Frisch's literary work includes novels , short stories and essays . He also translated from French, English, Polish and Yiddish.

Works

as an author
  • The engagement. Story of a boy . Fischer-Verlag, Berlin 1902.
  • From the art of the theater. A conversation . Müller Verlag, Munich 1910.
  • Zenobi. Novel . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-25812-X (reprint of the Berlin 1927 edition).
  • Gedalje . Association for the Promotion of Jewish Art in Switzerland, Zurich 1943.
  • To understand the spiritual. Essays (publications by the German Academy for Language and Poetry ; Volume 31). Verlag Schneider, Heidelberg 1963.
as editor
  • The forerunner . Kraus Repring, Nendeln 1970 (reprint of the Munich edition 1919).
  • Be . Müller Verlag, Munich 1920 (also contained in Der Vorläufer ).
  • Russian critic. Belinsky , Dobrolyubov , Pissarev . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921.
  • Johann Jacob Schudt : From the Franckfurt Jews past . Schocken Verlag, Berlin 1934.
as translator
  • Jean Cocteau : Enfants terribles. Roman ("Les enfants terribles"). Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1930 (together with Hans Kauders).
  • Luc Durtain : On the fortieth floor. Three short stories (“Quarantième etage”). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1928.
  • Jean Giraudoux : Bella. A novel ("Bella"). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1927.
  • Jean Giraudoux: Eglantine. Roman ("Eglantine"). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 11996, ISBN 3-518-01019-0 (reprint of the Leipzig edition 1928).
  • Albert Mathiez : The French Revolution ("La Revolution Française"). EVA, Hamburg 1950 (reprint of the Zurich 1940 edition).
  1. 1950. 445 pp.
  2. 1950, pp. 457-905.
  3. 1950. 204 pp.
  • Mendele Moicher Sforim : The journeys of Binjamin the third. Novel . Walter Verlag, Olten 1983, ISBN 3-530-56410-9 (reprint of the Berlin 1937 edition).
  • John B. Priestley : English Journey. A casual but truthful account of what a man saw, heard, felt and thought on a trip through England in the autumn of 1933 ("English Journey"). Fischer Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • André Siegfried : The English crisis ("La crise britannique"). Fischer-Verlag, Berlin 1931.
  • Andrzej Strug : Story of a Bomb ("Dzieje jednego pocisku"). Müller Verlag, Munich 1912.

literature

  • Fresh, Ephraim. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 8: Frie – Gers. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-22688-8 , pp. 177-183.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 342
  • Ferruccio Delle Cave (Ed.): Correspondence between Otto Flake , Efraim Frisch, Wilhelm Hausenstein and “Neuer Merkur”. 1919-1924. In: Ders .: The incompleteness of the world. A symposium on Otto Flake. Edition Raetia, Bozen 1992, ISBN 88-7283-0090-5 , pp. 76-108.
  • Eva Henle: Austrian alphabet. Eva Henle on Efraim Frisch. In: literature and criticism. Vol. 1989, issue 327/328, ISSN  0024-466X , pp. 103-108.
  • Gert Mattenklott: Literary criticism in the context of German Judaica (1895-1933). Moritz Heimann and Efraim Frisch. In: Studi germanici / NS Volume 28 (1990), Issue 80/82, ISSN  0039-2952 , pp. 303-320.
  • Guy Stern: Efraim Frisch and the "Neue Merkur". In: Year-Book of the Leo Baeck Institute , Volume 6 (1961), ISSN  0075-8744 , pp. 121-151.
  • Daniel Hoffmann: Fresh, Efraim. 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. 153–155.

Web links

Wikisource: Efraim Frisch  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the unfinished novel Gog and Magog .
  2. ↑ a b Together with Wilhelm Hausenstein .
  3. ↑ Excerpt from: Johann Jacob Schudt: Jüdische Merkölkerbaren . Multzer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1714/18 (4 vol.).
personal data
SURNAME Fresh, Ephraim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frisch, Ephraim; Alain (pseudonym); Fabian (pseudonym); Florian (pseudonym); Frischauer, Erhard (pseudonym); Guest, EH (pseudonym); Lach, E. (pseudonym); Spectator, Victor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Stryj
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1942
Place of death Ascona