Ernst Benedict
Ernst Martin Benedikt , pseudonyms : Erich Major , Ernst Martin and Ernst Marliss (born May 20, 1882 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 28, 1973 there ) was an Austrian journalist , writer, poet, publicist , editor and painter of Jewish descent .
Life
He was the son of the publicist Moriz Benedikt (1849-1920) from Kwassitz ( Moravia ) and his wife Adele (née Krohn; 1847-1935) from Breslau ( Lower Silesia ).
Benedikt studied law and worked after his doctorate to become Dr. jur. initially under a pseudonym in the " New Free Press " run by his father . After his father's death, he became the owner of the newspaper in 1920 and was editor-in-chief himself until 1935 . But he had inherited a difficult legacy: the decline in circulation and the economic hardship of the 1930s forced him to sell his shares to the Austrian government in 1934. In 1932 he had already had to sell shares to a consortium with Stefan von Müller . After the Anschluss of Austria (March 12, 1938) , the “Neue Freie Presse”, which has now finally become a government paper, could no longer survive. Since his time in Vienna, Adolf Hitler had maintained an irreconcilable and hostile attitude towards the “Judenblatt” and demanded that it be stopped. Benedikt was in Gestapo detention from November 1938 to April 1939 after the Reichspogromnacht .
Benedikt left his house at Himmelstrasse 55 in Döbling (19th district of Vienna) in May 1939 and fled with his family first to England and in July 1939 to Sweden . His house, his art collection and his library of around 6,000 volumes were expropriated and forcibly sold through the property transfer office .
In Sweden, Benedikt became a board member of the UVS and worked for various Swedish newspapers and magazines. As early as 1953 he was invited to return to his newspaper in Vienna, but it was not until 1962 that he actually went back to Austria.
His interviews with the great politicians of the post-war era such as Jan Masaryk , Stanley Baldwin and Herbert C. Hoover caused a stir . Nevertheless, in 1936 the satirist and press critic Karl Kraus , who had already criticized Benedict's father Moriz, dealt with Benedict's writing style in a gloss entitled "Rescue (linguistic theory)":
“The young Springinsfeld knows no genitive , because he is not the son of, but of Moriz Benedikt. That would still be correct, as one of these horrible leading articles by Ernst Benedikt can also be called one by Ernst Benedikt, since it was written by him. (Who else could do it?) Now, however, the “from” - from the monarchy - still sits in his mind so that he must always use it. He is concerned with 'the fate of Germany, but also the fate of Europe', he believes in 'the future of Austria' ... .. "
Benedict received the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .
He was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .
Benedikt was married to Irma von Rosen (* November 15, 1879; † 1969) and had four daughters: Gerda (* 1915), Frieda (1916–1953), who later wrote under the name Anna Sebastian , Ilse and Susanne. His estate is in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library .
literature
- Benedict, Ernst. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 16-21.
- Sepp Hiekisch-Picard (editor): Ernst Martin Benedikt (1882–1973) . Catalog for the exhibition at the Museum Bochum 1988–1989. Museum Bochum, Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-8093-0130-2 (with catalog raisonné )
- Michaela Lindinger: Austrian, Jew, émigré: Biographical information on the journalist, writer and painter Ernst Benedikt (1882–1973) . In: "Medien & Zeit", Volume 7 (1992), Issue 1, pages 14-24.
- Article about Ernst Benedikt in "Die Presse" from 28./29. June 2008, p. 43 .
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 50
Web links
- Ernst Benedikt in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Literature by and about Ernst Benedikt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Genealogical data
- Ernst Benedikt in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
- Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the newspaper
- ↑ Sophie Lillie : What Once Was . Handbook of the expropriated art collections of Vienna, page 161 f., Vienna 2003.
- ^ Glossary by Karl Kraus ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ernst Benedikt in the search for the dead at friedhoefewien.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benedict, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benedikt, Ernst Martin (full name); Major, Erich (pseudonym); Martin, Ernst (pseudonym); Marliss, Ernst (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian publicist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1973 |
| Place of death | Vienna |