Elazar Benyoëtz

Elazar Benyoëtz (1996)

Elazar Benyoëtz (born March 24, 1937 in Wiener Neustadt as Paul Koppel ) is an Israeli aphorist and poet .

Life

Elazar Benyoëtz was born in 1937 as the son of Austrian Jews in Wiener Neustadt and emigrated with the family to Palestine in 1938, where he has lived in Jerusalem since 1939 and grew up as a Hebrew poet. In 1959 he passed the rabbinical exam. Between 1964 and 1968 he lived in Berlin , where he founded the Bibliographia Judaica in 1964 . Benyoëtz wrote his first volumes of poetry in Hebrew , his essays and aphorisms (since 1969) have appeared almost exclusively in German. In addition to religious subjects, the subject of his books is often the language itself.

Benyoëtz has been a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Darmstadt , since 2003 .

Elazar Benyoëtz has been married to the miniature painter and calligrapher Renée Koppel, who works under the stage name Metavel , since 1968 . The son Immanuel Koppel, born in 1969, is a Romance scholar and computer scientist.

The name Ben-yoëtz means son of the counselor .

Awards

• 1988 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1997 Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (April 23, 1997)
• 2003 corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt
• 2002 Joseph Breitbach Prize from the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
• 2008 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
• 2009 Badge of Honor of the City of Wiener Neustadt
• 2010 Book of the Year, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Art
• 2010 Theodor Kramer Prize
• 2011 Justinus Kerner Prize from the city of Weinsberg
• 2012 Book of the Month June 2012 of the theological literary newspaper Leipzig
• 2012 Prize of Honor from the Bible and Culture Foundation , Berlin
• 2017 honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Bern
• 2018 Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Lower Austria

Works

• Sahadutha. With an afterword by George Itamar . Paian, Berlin 1969.
• Annette Kolb and Israel. Lothar Stiehm Verlag, Heidelberg 1970
• Objections . Gotthold Müller , Munich 1973
• Stakes . Gotthold Müller, Munich 1975.
• Word stance. Sentences and opposites . Hanser, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-446-12343-1 .
• Caught up. New missions . Hanser, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-446-12726-7 .
• Maybe - much difficult. Aphorisms . Hanser, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-446-13307-0 .
• Giving away. Wolfau-Dr. Müllemann, Weinfelden 1986.
• with Clara von Bodmann: As long as the kept light. Letters 1966–1982 . Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 1989, ISBN 3-89191-257-9 .
• Meeting point at the crossroads. Essays . Hanser, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-446-15838-3 .
• Filigranite. A book made of books . Steidl, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-88243-213-6 .
• Paradise side. A seal . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1992, ISBN 3-933518-00-8 .
• Tumbling rope. From the awakening of love . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1993, ISBN 3-933518-01-6 .
• Dreams . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1993, ISBN 3-933518-02-4 .
• Pray . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1993, ISBN 3-933518-03-2 .
• Hearing vision . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1994, ISBN 3-933518-04-0 .
• Real is what can be dreamed of. Thoughts about belief . Kiefel, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-7811-5620-6 .
• Fraternity. The oldest game with fire. Essays . Hanser, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-446-17836-8 .
• Final judgment . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-933518-05-9 .
• Cross-circuit . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-933518-06-7 .
• Identity . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1995, ISBN 3-933518-07-5 .
• Devastator . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1996, ISBN 3-933518-08-3 .
• Variations on a Lost Theme. Aphorisms . Hanser, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-446-19098-8 .
• All victories are carried away . dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-19038-8 .
• Not at all. With an afterword by Paul Hoffmann . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1998, ISBN 3-933518-09-1 .
• Connection . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-933518-10-5 .
• The future is on our necks. Aphorisms . Hanser, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-446-19863-6 .
• Ichmandu. A reading . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 2000, ISBN 3-933518-11-3 .
• All the way. My way as a Jew and an Israeli into German . Arche, Zurich / Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7160-2290-X .
• Man exists on a case-by-case basis. Aphorisms . Reclam, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-379-00794-3 .
• Stupid . Wölpert, Herrlingen near Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-933518-12-1 .
• Finding makes searching easier . Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20471-7 .
• The more split. Objections. Stakes . Edition AZUR published by Glaux Verlag, Jena / Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-931743-01-7 .
• Balaam's donkey and Kohelet's dog . Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20829-2 .
• The speech anchors in silence . Aphorisms and letters. Edited by Ms. Spicker. Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-8196-0681-6 .
• Seemingly bright. Variations on a Lost Theme . Braumüller , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-99200-004-3 .
• Many times. Letters 1958-2007 . Brockmeyer University Press, Bochum 2009, ISBN 978-3-8196-0687-8 .
• Questionable. Aphorisms. Braumüller Literaturverlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99200-010-4
• Crowns of Sand , A Reading. Braumüller Literaturverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99200-055-5 .
• Olive trees that lay eggs Nachbuch. Braumüller Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7003-1791-3 .
• Olive trees that lay eggs Nachbuch. Braumüller Wissenschaftsverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7003-1791-3 .
• No consequence or: I will not sign . Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05696-1
• Time is a task. Words of Sahadutha . Edited by Hans-Horst Skupy. Fernwald 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05696-1
• Even brevity has its excessiveness . A reading. [Together with: Friedemann Spicker, Jürgen Wilbert German-language Jewish aphorism. An overview in dialogue.]. With miniatures by Metavel . Bochum 2015, ISBN 978-3-8196-0999-2 .
• At the beginning there is the goal and clears the way . A reading. With CD. Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-129-9 .
• The fire is not all of the light . Four readings. With nine miniatures by Metavel and double CD. Schaan 2015, ISBN 978-3-9521318-5-5 .
• Assured & Approved. A reading, Bellaprint Verlag, Mödling 2016, 260 pages, ISBN 978-3-9503163-6-0 .
• What does not ignite does not make sense. A little book about people and their expressiveness, Norpark Verlag, ISBN 978-3-943940-23-7
• The coming is not in a hurry. Zurich Readings , 2016, Norpark Verlag , ISBN 978-3-943940-28-2

literature

• Michael Bongardt (ed.): Humor - carelessness of melancholy. Access to the work of Elazar Benyoëtz. University Press Dr. N. Brockmneyer, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-8196-0745-5 .
• Michael Bongardt, A Path into German. Biography, Poetry and Faith in the Work of Israeli Author Elazar Benyoëtz. Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943245-18-9 .
• Michael Bongardt, René Dausner (eds.): Come to use. "The donkey Balaam and Kohelets dog" by Elazar Benyoëtz read with many voices on his 75th birthday. Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-11026-3 .
• Fabian Brand: Surprising new discoveries in the space between language. The Israeli aphorist and poet Elazar Benyoëtz . In: Voices of Time , Vol. 142 (2017), pp. 551–554.
• René Dausner: Elazar Benyoëtz: For an introduction. In: Accents. Zeitschrift für Literatur , Vol. 51 (2004), No. 1, p. 33.
• René Dausner: Breaking Time. On the motif of the future in Elazar Benyoëtz's work. In: Accents. Zeitschrift für Literatur 51 (1/2004) pp. 48–54.
• René Dausner: The trace left behind - Elazar Benyoëtz reads Franz Rosenzweig. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Franz Rosenzweig's “new thinking”. International Congress Kassel 2004. Volume 2: Experienced Revelation. In: theologos. Freiburg / Br. / Munich 2006, pp. 892–910.
• René Dausner: Write like a dead man. Poetological and theological analyzes of the German-language work of the Israeli-Jewish poet Elazar Benyoëtz . Dissertation 2006. Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76385-3 .
• Alexander Emanuely : "Little Joseph" - The aphorist Elazar Benyoëtz. In: Zwischenwelt 27. Vol. 1–2 (August) 2010, pp. 18–20.
• Bernhard Fetz , Michael Hansel, Gerhard Langer (Eds.): Elazar Benyoëtz / Korrespondenzen. Profile 21. Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05696-1 .
• Harald Fricke: Lyric Aphorism . Laudation to Elazar Benyoëtz on the award of the Joseph Breitbach Prize by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz on September 20, 2004. In: Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch. 2004, pp. 185-189.
• Magdalene L. Frettlöh / Matthias Käser-Braun (ed.): Quote and testimony. A search for traces in Elazar Benyoetz's work. Erev-Rav, Uelzen 2017.
• Christoph Grubitz: Use and collage. On the aphorism by Elazar Benyoëtz. In: Jakob Hessing (Ed.): Jüdischer Almanach 1993. Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 1992, pp. 162–167.
• Christoph Grubitz: The Israeli aphorist Elazar Benyoëtz. With a preface by Harald Weinrich Dissertation 1993. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-65108-3 .
• Christoph Grubitz: Elazar Benyoëtz. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Hrsg.): Metzler-Lexikon der German-Jewish literary history. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, pp. 58-61.
• Christoph Grubitz, Ingrid Hoheisel, Walter Wölpert (eds.): No words to lose. Elazar Benyoëtz on her 70th birthday . Herrlinger Drucke, Herrlingen near Ulm 2007, ISBN 978-3-933518-00-2
• Contours. In: Rothenfelser Burgbrief. 1/2005 (PDF)
• Christoph Grubitz: A Jew in German Letters. On the occasion of a selection from Elazar Benyoëtz's correspondence .
• Christoph Grubitz: The spirit of utopia is still glowing. Elazar Benyoëtz in his correspondence.
• Werner Helmich: Building without triviality. In: Christoph Grubitz, Ingrid Hoheisel, Walter Wölpert (eds.): No words to lose. Elazar Benyoëtz on her 70th birthday . Herrlinger Drucke, Herrlingen near Ulm 2007, pp. 38–42.
• Wolfgang Mieder: The last saying is the contradiction. On the eloquent aphorisms of Elazar Benyoëtz. In: Modern Austrian Literature. Vol. 31 (1998), pp. 104-134.
• Hans-Horst Skupy (Ed.): Elazar Benyoëtz. Time is a task. Words of Sahadutha. With an afterword by the author. From the Skupy collection, Volume 1. litblockín, Fernwald 2014, ISBN 978-3-923915-02-6 .
• Friedemann Spicker: The German aphorism in the 20th century. Game, picture, knowledge. Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-10859-2 , pp. 786-808: Chap. Elazar Benyoëtz.
• Friedemann Spicker: "There are always the strangest creatures on the border". Via Elazar Benyoëtz as an introduction to the following. In: Ulrich Joost, Alexander Neumann (Hrsg.): Lichtenberg year book. 2006, pp. 9-14.
• Friedemann Spicker: Elazar Benyoetz. In: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Literature. text and criticism, Munich, pp. 1–10, A – F. 85th subsequent delivery, March 2007.
• Friedemann Spicker (Ed.): Elazar Benyoëtz. The speech anchors in silence. Aphorisms & letters. Publication of the German Aphorism Archive Hattingen - DAphA-Drucke 1. Brockmeyer, Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-8196-0681-6 .
• Friedemann Spicker: Elazar Benyoëtz and Lichtenberg. In: Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch , vol. 2009, pp. 113–116.
• Chaïm Vogt-Moykopf: Littérature israélienne en langue allemande ou littérature germanophone en Israel? 1999. (online)
• Daniela Strigl: "I am always ahead of myself". Elazar Benyoëtz in conversation with Daniela Strigl. In: Zwischenwelt , Vol. 26, No. 1/2, August 2009, pp. 18-20.
• Chaïm Vogt-Moykopf: Text obsession - Jewish readings of German-language texts. 2000, (online)
• Andreas Wittbrodt: Hebrew in German. The German language work by Elazar Benyoëtz. In: Journal for German Philology , Vol. 121 (2002), pp. 584–606.
• Josef Wohlmuth: Elazar Benyoëtz, Finding makes searching easier. "We are the last ones who still know what they are silent about". In: Gregor Maria Hoff (Ed.): On exploration. Theological reading tours through foreign book worlds. Mainz 2005, pp. 232-250 (note p. 262).

Web links

Commons : Elazar Benyoëtz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Elazar Benyoëtz  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Elazar Benyoëtz in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.lyrikwelt.de - Review by Armin A. Wallas on the book Variations on a Lost Topic
• Reviews at perlentaucher.de
• Interview with Elazar Benyoëtz . In: The Standard. January 12, 2009.
• Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck
• Biographical article with interview ( Memento from April 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: Wiener Zeitung . February 23, 2001.
• Elazar Benyoëtz in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
• Short speech, long sense: The language art of Elazar Benyoëtz 2017, by Judith Wipfler, SRF Kultur
• Elazar Benyoëtz , University of Bern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grubitz et al.: No words to lose. P. 176 and on the inside cover.
2. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President.
3. ↑ KNA on Mon 10.12.2018, 3:15 pm.
4. ↑ The high demands of the aphorism. In: FAZ . September 12, 2011, p. 28.