Emil Szittya

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Emil Szittya (1906)
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Szittya in the 1940s

Emil Szittya (born August 18, 1886 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † November 26, 1964 in Paris ; actually Adolf Schenk ) was a Hungarian writer , journalist , painter , art critic , traveler and vagabond , his pseudonyms were chroniclers , Emszi and Emil Lesitt .

Life

Emil Szittya led the life of a bohemian . He settled in Paris in 1906, from 1906 to 1907 he stayed in Ascona on Monte Verità , where he met Karl and Gusto Gräser . In 1908 he met Blaise Cendrars . From 1911 to 1912 he worked on the magazine Les Hommes Nouveaux in Paris . From 1914 to 1918 he lived in Zurich. In 1915 he met the Russian revolutionaries Lenin , Radek and Trotsky there , and in 1916 in the Cabaret Voltaire des Dada . In Hungary in 1918, he lived in Berlin from 1921 to 1926, and again in Paris from 1926. From 1940 to 1944 he worked in the Resistance in Limoges . In 1945 he lived at 149 Rue du Château , he worked in the Café Aux Deux Magots , and in 1961 he met Franz Jung again in Paris.

He made the acquaintance of Lajos Kassák , with whom he published the Hungarian avant-garde magazine A Tett (Die Tat) in Budapest , which was soon banned due to anti-militarist tendencies. In 1918/1919 he published the periodicals Horizont-füzet / Horizont-Flugschriften / Horizont-Hefte in Budapest, Vienna and Berlin with Karl Lohs and Hans Richter . He was friends with members of the avant-garde, about whom he collected portraits and memories ( The Cabinet of Curiosities. Encounters with strange incidents, tramps, criminals, artists, religiously madmen, sexual curiosities, social democrats, syndicalists, communists, anarchists, politicians and artists ). Together with Hugo Kersten , he published the literary magazine Der Mistral in Zurich in 1915 , a literary war magazine , as one of its (changing) subtitles says. He had Blaise Cendrars as a friend, with whom he first met in Leipzig . They later found themselves in Paris from 1910 to 1911, where Emil Szittya published the first series of his magazine Neue Menschen . The material difficulties were great, Cendrars, Szittya and Marius Hanot launched Les Hommes Nouveaux , a free Franco-German magazine. He also worked on the journal Der Cross- Section, published in Berlin in the late 1920s, and on the journal Das Kunstblatt, published by Paul Westheim . In Paris he later published the anti-fascist magazine Die Zone with Paul Ruhstrat (1933 to 1934), a "cross-section of German politics, culture, science, art, theater, music, radio". In 1940 she fled from the German occupiers to southern France, but later returned to Paris.

Painter portraits

Szittya portrayed contemporary painters in many of his books, some in mostly concise monographs: Henri Rousseau , Pablo Picasso , Vincent van Gogh , Marc Chagall , August Wilhelm Dressler , Otto Dix , Oskar Kokoschka , Braque , Masereel and others

Fonts (selection)

The suicide book: an contribution to the cultural history of all times and peoples. Leipzig 1925
  • The hashish films by customs officials Henri Rousseau and Tatjana Joukoff shuffled the cards. Budapest 1915.
  • The game of an erotomaniac. Berlin 1920.
  • A walk with sometimes useless things. Vienna / Prague / Leipzig 1920.
  • Prayers about God's tragedy , Berlin 1922.
  • The cabinet of curiosities. Konstanz 1923. (New edition: Verlag Clemens Zerling, Berlin 1979.)
  • Slap or How Ahasver turns out to be Saint Germain. Potsdam 1924.
  • Henri Rousseau. Hamburg 1924.
  • Painters fates. Fourteen portraits. Hamburg 1925.
  • Suicidal. A contribution to the cultural history of all times and peoples. Leipzig 1925.
  • Ernesto de Fiore. Milan 1927.
  • Hoetger. Paris nd (around 1928).
  • Thought-out fates of poets. Paris 1928.
  • Herbert Garbe et la Sculpture Allemande. OO, oJ (around 1929).
  • New tendencies in Swiss painting. Édition Ars, Paris (1929).
  • Le Paysage Français. Paris 1929.
    • German: The French countryside. Paris 1929.
  • Leopold Gottlieb. Paris 1930.
  • Leo of King . Paris 1931.
  • Arthur Bryks. Paris 1932.
  • L'Art allemand en France. (translated by Lazare Lévine), Paris (1933)
  • Notes on Picasso. Paris 1947.
  • Marquet parcourt le monde. Paris 1949.
  • Soutine et son temps. Paris 1955.
  • The man who was always there. Ed. Sabine Haaser. Manfred Lamping. Vienna 1986.
  • A walk with sometimes useless things. Prose 1916-1920. Forgotten authors of the modern age, 59. Ed. Walter Fähnders. Wins 1994.
  • Ahasver dream rider. Disturbing the legend. With editorial note. Illustr. Matyaz Vipotnik. Klagenfurt: Wieser 1991. ISBN 3-85129-039-9 . Bibliography pp. 135-137.
  • With Franz Jung the fever crosses the streets. Letters to Franz Jung. In: Archives for the history of resistance and work , 18. Fernwald: Germinal 2008. ISSN  0936-1014 pp. 365–376.
  • Journey through anarchist Spain. In: Archives for the history of resistance and work , 19. Fernwald: Germinal 2011. pp. 197–212.
    • Commentary: Walter Fähnders, Rüdiger Reinecke: The other, the hidden Spain. In: Archives for the history of resistance and work , 19. Fernwald: Germinal 2011. S. 213–220.
  • Walk in yourself. Novel. In: opponents. Quarterly publication, 30. Basisdruck, Berlin 2012. ISSN  1432-2641 pp. 9-16.
    • Comment: Walter Fähnders: He was uncomfortable being in nothing. Opponent. Quarterly publication, 30. Basisdruck, Berlin 2012. pp. 16–22.
  • Mr. Outside illustrates the world. With first prints from the estate. Series: Pamphlets, 28. Ed. Walter Fähnders. Basisdruck, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-86163-149-1 .
    • Review: Jonas Engelmann: Still an anarchist. In: Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 9, 26 February 2015, p. 8f.
  • Erich Mühsam. A speech. First print from the estate. In: Improvisations in more than two pictures. Edited by Gregor Ackermann and Walter Delabar. Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1106-8 , pp. 153–170. ( June. Magazine for Literature 49/50.)
  • The seven years. A war epic. First print from the estate in literaturkritik.de 2016.
  • They want to make the Spaniards slaves and Spain in 1939. In: Archive for the history of resistance and work, No. 20 (2016), pp. 565–568 and pp. 569–570. ISBN 978-3-88663-420-0 ; ISSN  0936-1014 .
    • Comment: Walter Fähnders: "The fields no longer breathe". For the first print of Emil Szittya's Spanish texts . Ibid, pp. 571-578.

Szittya's literary estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar .

Lost literary works

Several of Szittya's works are considered lost, e. E.g. the novel Ecce Homo Ulk (1908?) Or Ecce Homo ulkt (?), Still known by Walter Benjamin . (According to Benjamin, Ecce-homo-Ulk was published in 1911.) Further titles, of which no copies can be identified after Paul Raabe , are: About the new literature (1904), Grausamegeschichte (1912), Gedichte (1913), Wilhelm Dressler (1919). After Max Blaeulich : The game of an erotomaniac.

Artistic work

  • Émile Szittya: 82 Rêves pendant la guerre 1933-1945. Illustrés par l'auteur. Les Diurnales, Paris 1963 (printed by Busson)
    • German: dreams from the war. Löcker, Vienna 1987.
  • Emil Szittya 1886–1964. Oil paintings and gouaches. Exhibition catalog. Exhibition from October 29th to November 30th 1985 in the Galerie Löcker, Vienna. With 20 partly color ills. Löcker, Vienna 1985 ISBN 3-85409-089-7 .

literature

  • Christian Weinek: Emil Szittya: Life and work in the German-speaking area 1886–1927. Diss. Phil. University of Salzburg 1987.
  • Elisabeth Weinek: Emil Szittya: contemporary, poet and painter; Parisian years 1927–1964. Diss. Phil. University of Salzburg, 1987.
  • Hans J. Schütz: "I was once a German poet". Forgotten and misunderstood authors of the 20th century. CH Beck, Munich 1988, pp. 267-272.
  • Walter Benjamin: Books by the Insane. In: ders .: Collected Writings, Vol. 4,2. Frankfurt 1972, pp. 615-619.
  • Paul Raabe : The authors and books of literary expressionism. Stuttgart 1985 ISBN 3-476-00575-5 .
  • Hugo Ball Almanac. Studies and texts on Dada. New episode, 5th text + review , Munich 2014 ISBN 978-3-86916-326-0 ; in this:
    • Emil Szittya, Emmy Ball-Hennings, Hugo Ball: Correspondence. Ed. And commentary: Walter Fähnders. Pp. 9-64.
    • Walter Fähnders: Pierre Ramus and Hugo Ball. Pp. 210–216.
    • Walter Fähnders: Emil Szittya and Hugo Ball. Pp. 65–76.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lieselotte Maas: Handbook of the German Exile Press: 1933–1945 . Edited by Eberhard Lämmert. Munich: Hanser, 1976, p. 898
  2. ↑ German Biographical Index , 1998, Vol. 7, p. 3507
  3. ↑ this information from German Biographical Encyclopedia , DBE, Volume 9, Lemma Szittya. KG Saur, ISBN 3-598-23186-5 , dtv ISBN 3-423-59053-X .
  4. ^ New edition, Eds. Fritz and Sieglinde Mierau . Nautilus, Hamburg 1990.
  5. ↑ attached: Max Blaeulich: Szittya or the disturbance of the legend. Table of contents at the German National Library
  6. ↑ Photo: p. 17, Szittya in the late 1940s. Unknown photographer.
  7. ↑ Selection of works 1910–1962, 45 prose pieces , including The Haschischfilms of the customs officer Henri Rousseau and Tatjana Joukoff shuffles the cards.
  8. ↑ Emil Szittya: The seven years. In: literaturkritik.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  9. ^ Paul Raabe (1985: 462)
  10. ↑ Max Blaeulich (1991: 135), in: Szittya (1991)
  11. ↑ there are 10 gouaches reproduced

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personal data
SURNAME Szittya, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenk, Adolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian vagabond, writer, journalist, painter and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1964
Place of death Paris