Ernst Loewy

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Ernst Paul Loewy (born April 25, 1920 in Krefeld ; † September 17, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German librarian , researcher in exile and publicist .

Life

Ernst Loewy attended the Realgymnasium. Because he was greeted by anti-Jewish hatred during the Nazi era , he left school in 1935 without a degree. His parents sent him to Niederlausitz , where he was prepared for emigration to Palestine at the Hachschara Center of the Children and Youth Aliyah in Schniebinchen, today's name Świbinki, a district of Teuplitz .

In 1936 he reached Haifa . He lived in Kiryat Anavim , a kibbutz near Jerusalem , and worked in agriculture. But life in the collective agricultural settlement did not suit him; Loewy trained as a bookseller in Tel Aviv and took up the profession of librarian. Between 1935 and 1938 he wrote letters to his parents in 1997 under the title Youth in Palestine. Letters to Parents 1935–1938 were published. These letters gave the title of the exhibition “Yesterday we arrived safely here” , which was shown in 2007 in the Finsterwalde district museum.

In 1939 he met Regina Schaller in Tel Aviv, whom he married in 1944. Their son Ronny was born in 1946 and their second son Peter was born in 1951. In 1956 he and his family considered moving to the GDR , but eventually went to the Federal Republic . In Frankfurt am Main he headed the Judaica department of the university library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . The third son Hanno was born there in 1961.

His work, Literature under the Swastika , published in 1966 . The Third Reich and its poetry appeared in several editions.

In 1984 he was one of the founding members of the “Society for Exile Research”, which he took over as chairman. Loewy published the Society's news letter (now New News Letter ). The newsletter was published in KG Saur Verlag as a reprint . The society later named him its honorary chairman.

In 1989, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures awarded him the University of Osnabrück , the honorary doctorate .

His son Ronny Loewy was a film historian and worked at the Deutsches Filmmuseum (later the Film Institute), Peter Loewy (* 1951) is a teacher and photographer, Hanno Loewy is a literary and media scholar.

Works

  • Thomas Mann and the German bourgeoisie. Vienna 1947.
  • Between the chairs. Essays and autobiographies from 50 years. European Publishing House, Hamburg 1995 ISBN 3-434-50055-3 .
  • Youth in Palestine. Letters to parents 1935–1938. Brita Eckert (Ed.) Metropol, Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-926893-40-0 .
Editorships
  • Literature under the swastika. The Third Reich and its poetry. European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
  • Exile. Literary and political texts from German exile 1933–1945. Collaboration with Brigitte Grimm. Metzler, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-476-00408-2 .

literature

  • Award of an honorary doctorate to Ernst Loewy. University of Osnabrück, Department of Language and Literature Studies, Osnabrück 1989.
  • Wolfgang Benz : German Jews in the 20th Century. A story in portraits. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2 ; therein: From book trade apprentice in Tel Aviv to pioneer of exile research: Ernst Loewy. Pp. 89-97.
  • Jürgen Babendreier: German post-war German studies without a zero point. A Fall of Man is reviewed [1] , in: in: Sabine Koloch (Ed.): 1968 in German literature / topic group “Post-War German Studies in Criticism” (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions) (2019).
  • Brita Eckert: The Beginnings of Exile Research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1975. An overview [2] (56-page PDF document), in: Sabine Koloch (Hrsg.): 1968 in German literature / topic group “Post-War German Studies in Criticism” (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions) (2020).
further reading
  • Norbert Seitz (Red.): When crossing the border. Autobiographical. Manuscripts / mixed bundle / collection of letters from November 16, 1979 to around the 1990s. German PEN Center of the Federal Republic, Bremen, 417 sheets.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "We arrived safely here yesterday"
  2. ↑ Alexander Sturm: The old children of the Jewish returnees. ( Memento from November 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jüdische Zeitung . Edition May 2007.
  3. ↑ Hans Riebsamen: With the youth aliyah into the promised land. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online from January 2, 2004.
  4. ^ News letter in the library service center Baden-Württemberg
  5. ↑ Brita Eckert: The beginnings of the "Society for Exile Research eV"
  6. ^ Literature by and about Ernst Loewy in the catalog of the German National Library , actually: Peter Loewy
personal data
SURNAME Loewy, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loewy, Ernst Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, exile researcher and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main