Ernst Epler

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Ernst Epler (born March 11, 1912 in Vienna ; died 1985 ibid) was an Austrian journalist and author .

biography

Epler came from a socialist parents of Jewish origin. The family lived in Vienna. He later recalled that he was confronted with anti-Semitism for the first time as a five-year-old in Leopoldstadt .

Epler studied classical philology and German at the University of Vienna and became a member of the Association of Austrian Socialist Students . He had to interrupt his studies several times. At the end of 1932 Epler joined the Communist student faction and was friends with Jura Soyfer , among others .

After the Austrofascists came to power and the elimination of parliament, Epler was arrested on March 26, 1934 for his political activities, sentenced to six months ' arrest and expelled from the university. After his release, he continued his work in the political resistance against the fascist regime.

In October 1937 Epler married Klara Vielwahr.

After Austria was " annexed " to Hitler's Germany in March 1938, he fled via Czechoslovakia and Poland, initially to London, and in 1940 came to the USA , where he made his living as a dishes washer , ice cream seller and welder . At the same time he trained as a typesetter .

Together with Wilhelm Gründorfer , he was one of the most important organizers of a magazine for Austrian exiles, the Austro American Tribune (for which Bertolt Brecht wrote, among others ), for which he also provided the Linotype typesetting. Sometimes he wrote under the pseudonym "Fritz Fabian". From 1940 Epler was also active in the Austro American Association .

In 1949 Epler returned to Austria and worked as a journalist for the newspapers Der Abend and Die Volksstimme of the KPÖ , where he edited, among other things, the articles by Fred Wander , and published the cultural journal Tagebuch .

Works (selection)

  • Act Starhemberg . Vienna: 1954.
  • The Mnacko case .
  • The big strike . Vienna: Stern, 1965.
  • Philipp Schoeller for his birthday. In: Volksstimme , January 8, 1967.
  • A poor prelude only to the great song. Jura Soyfer would have turned 60 on December 8th. In: Volksstimme , December 8, 1972.
  • "You are a Jew ...". In: Ruth Beckermann (Ed.): The Mazzesinsel . Vienna: Löcker, 1984.
  • Vienna. How it was - how it is. (With Traude Egger) Vienna: Youth and People, 1987.
  • How the persecuted became persecutors.

literature

  • Fritz Fabian (di Ernst Epler). In: Fritz Hausjell , Andreas Ulrich (ed.): Displaced truth. Journalism from Exile . Ueberreuter, 1995. pp. 252ff.
  • Peter Guttmann: Ernst Epler. Life stages of a communist journalist . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 282.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Gaby Falböck: News from the intermediate world. The Austro American Tribune , an Austrian exile magazine, was published in New York. In: John M. Spalek, Konrad Feilchenfeldt, Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933 . Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2010. p. 419ff .; here p. 424.
  3. ↑ Epler 1984;
    Brigitte Bailer-Galanda : Jewish fates. Reports from the persecuted . Vienna: ÖBV, 1992; P. 5;
    Helga Gibs: Leopoldstadt. Small world on the big river . Mohl, 1997; P. 129.
  4. ↑ Klaus Amann , Albert Berger (Ed.): Austrian literature of the thirties. Ideological conditions, institutional requirements, case studies . Vienna / Cologne / Graz: Hermann Böhlaus descendants, 1985; P. 32;
    Horst Jarka: Jura Soyfer. Life, work, time . Vienna: Löcker, 1987; Pp. 66, 270;
    see. Ernst Fischer , Ruth Fischer , Franz Marek , Leopold Spira and others; see Karl-Markus Gauß (ed.), Theo Waldinger: Between Ottakring and Chicago. Stations . Salzburg: Otto Müller, 1993; P. 75;
    Herbert Arlt: Drama, “global towns”, Jura Soyfer . Röhrig University Press, 2000; P. 32.
  5. ^ Peter Eppel: Austrians in Exile. USA 1938-1945. A documentation , volume 1. Vienna: ÖBV, 1995; P. 320.
  6. ^ Fritz H. Sturzeis: Austria 1945. Third Reich, end of war, 2nd republic . Pollischansky, 2007; P. 266.
  7. ^ Gabriele Melischek, Josef Seethaler: Die Wiener Tageszeitung 1945-1955 . Peter Lang, 1999; P. 169.
  8. ↑ Maria Bianca Fanta: The workers of the pen. Journalists from the communist party newspaper “Österreichische Volksstimme” and the turning points in their life stories (1945–1956) . Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2014.
  9. ↑ Fred Wander: The good life. Memories . Vienna: Hanser, 1996; P. 124.
  10. ^ Richard Felix Staar, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, Lewis H. Gann: Yearbook on International Communist Affairs . Hoover Institution, 1969; P. 42.
  11. ↑ Gudula Walterskirchen : Starhemberg or The Traces of the "30s" . Vienna: Amalthea, 2002; P. 287.
personal data
SURNAME Epler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1985
Place of death Vienna