Ernst Feigl
Ernst Feigl , from 1945 Arnošt Feigl (born June 5, 1887 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † January 2, 1957 ibid) was a German-speaking Czechoslovakian writer and court reporter .
Life
Ernst Feigl's father, Josef Feigl, was an immigrant Jewish poor advocate in Prague, who lived in small circumstances and died in 1907. Ernst and his brothers Karl (1882–1942), Friedrich (1884–1965) and Hugo (1889–1961) grew up in Prague's old town. They attended the old town high school and Karl was Franz Kafka's classmate there . The family did not deny the Jewish origin, the mother grew up in the Prague ghetto, but she did not practice any religious customs. Although the family members knew Czech, they always spoke German at home.
Ernst Feigl's first literary attempts were printed as a volume of novels in Stuttgart in 1909 and in 1913 in Hermann Meister's Heidelberg monthly Saturn .
Feigl was unfit for military service in the First World War because of his severe myopia. He became an editor at the Czech newspaper Union and represented pacifist positions. Feigl visited Kafka several times in 1915, who campaigned for the publication of a volume of Feigl's poetry with the publisher Kurt Wolff and his representative Georg Heinrich Meyer . The project silted up and Feigl published a few poems from it in the Prager Tagblatt . In 1917 he recited his own poems and scenes from his emerging Don Juan drama in the Zionist Club of Jewish Women and Girls in Prague . The piece Don Juan itself remained a fragment in a huge bundle of which only small parts have been published. In 1920 he was able to stage a series of four chamber plays under the title Strangers in the staging of Georg Wilhelm Pabst at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague .
Feigl married Auguste Anthony (1894–1965) in 1919 and he got an editor's position at the Prager Tagblatt , where he - under a pseudonym - also wrote glosses for the feature pages, but established himself primarily as a court reporter. He remained so until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, when the newspaper was banned and he became unemployed. From then on, his wife's wages had to be enough for both of them.
His brother Karl and his family were victims of the Holocaust , and his sisters Irene (1880–1942) and Kamilla (1885–1942) were also deported and murdered. His friend Georg Mannheimer was killed by the Germans in the Dachau concentration camp . He himself survived the persecution in Prague, probably because he lived in a "privileged mixed marriage" and his wife was fighting for his survival, but only as a person with poor health. In addition, there was increasing blindness, which made his literary projects difficult and impossible. After the liberation he gave up the German language, he called himself Arnošt Feigl; However, he continued to write his literary manuscripts in German, for which he could no longer find a form, no degree and no editor.
Feigl's urn is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery near Emil Utitz's grave.
Works
- Unhappy bliss. Novellas. A. Juncker, Stuttgart 1909.
- Wilhelm Grosz ; Ernst Feigl; Georg Trakl ; Viktor Aufricht : Rondels: three mood pictures for a deep singing voice and chamber orchestra. Universal Edition, Vienna 1923.
- Dieter Sudhoff : Selection of works by Ernst Feigl. In: Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prager Profiles: Forgotten Authors in the Shadow of Kafka. Mann, Berlin 1991 pp. 357-414.
literature
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of 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. 303 (No. 2356).
- Dieter Sudhoff: The fly prince of Arcadia. Notes on the life and writing of the Prague poet Ernst Feigl. In: Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prager Profiles: Forgotten Authors in the Shadow of Kafka. Mann, Berlin 1991 pp. 325-356.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Feigl in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, p. 328ff
- ^ A b Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, p. 335
- ↑ Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, p. 337
- ↑ Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, p. 339f
- ↑ Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, pp. 340–343
- ↑ Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, pp. 346-348
- ^ Max Brod : Prager Tagblatt. An editorial's novel , 1979, p. 53
- ↑ Dieter Sudhoff: The Fly Prince of Arcadia , 1991, p. 350ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feigl, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feigl, Arnost |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech journalist German language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1957 |
| Place of death | Prague |