Emil factor
Emil Faktor (born August 31, 1876 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † April 10, 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto ; pseudonym: Jussuf ) was a German-language theater critic , editor and writer .
Life
Faktor was born the son of German Bohemian Jews. He studied law in his hometown and received his doctorate in 1904 . In addition to his studies, he worked as an editor and critic, since 1898 for Monday newspaper from Böhmen , since 1899 for the magazine Bohemia . In 1908 he moved from Prague to Berlin, where he initially wrote for the magazine Der Tag . From 1912 he was responsible for the features, theater and music editing of the Berliner Börsen-Courier , of which he became editor-in-chief in 1917. In the years that followed, he earned a reputation as one of the city's most famous theater critics.
In addition to his journalistic activities, he also writes poems and plays. He published, among other things, the volumes of poetry Was ich sucht (1899) and Jahresringe (1908) as well as the comedies Die Temperierte (1914) and The Daughter (1917).
In 1931, due to his Jewish descent, he was urged to resign from his post as editor-in-chief, ostensibly at “his own request”. In 1933 he returned with his wife Sophie, nee. Sack, a concert pianist, and his two children Richard (* 1914) and Lili (* 1917) returned to Prague. There he continued to work as a freelance journalist and critic, including for the Prager Tagblatt and Prager Mittag . In 1935 the family's German citizenship was revoked. Although they had the necessary affidavits through the efforts of their daughter Lili, who had emigrated to the United States in 1939 , he and his wife were not granted a visa for the United States due to the US quota system. On October 21, 1941, the factor couple were deported from Prague to the Litzmannstadt ghetto on the Da 7 transport , where they were murdered on April 10, 1942.
Factor's daughter Lili was married to the political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim .
Works
- The temperate: arguments in three acts. Berlin: Fischer 1914.
- Alexander Moissi. Berlin: Reiss 1920.
literature
- Klaus Täubert: Emil factor: A man and (s) a newspaper. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1994, ISBN 3-89468-107-1 .
- Factor, Emil. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 469-478.
- 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. 278
- Factor, Emil. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 283.
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Emil Faktor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Faktor's estate in the Bavarian State Library
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 2 1983.
- ^ Täubert, Klaus. Emil Faktor: A man and his newspaper. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1994, p. 111f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Factor, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jussuf (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater critic and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1942 |
| Place of death | Litzmannstadt ghetto |