Felix Pinner

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Felix Pinner (born February 22, 1880 in Birnbaum an der Warthe , † May 3, 1942 in New York City ) was a German writer and important business journalist during the Weimar Republic .

family

Felix Pinner was born the second of five children to the Jewish businessman Moses Moritz Pinner and his wife Jachet Hannah Drucker in the province of Posen . His younger brother Georg became known as a director and theater manager under the name of Heinz Herald . The musician Harry Waldau was his cousin, the actress Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein his cousin. In 1912 Pinner married Gertrud Grünspan from Woldenburg, a businessman's daughter who was six years his junior in Berlin. Their son Hans Stephan was born in 1916. They also had a foster son named Günther Drucker.

Life

The doctor of law worked as a business journalist for the Berliner Tageblatt and was head of the trading section from 1910 to 1933. He was also an employee of the Schaubühne , Weltbühne , Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Bohemia . Starting in 1921, he wrote 30 portraits of German business leaders for the Weltbühne under the pseudonym Frank Faßland, which were published as a book in 1924. "What is available here is a scientifically reliable representation from the› dry ‹economic sphere, seen and enlivened by the artist's temperament," said the publisher's advertisements. He also wrote other books, including a novel called Tannerhütte , which was filmed in 1977 by Peter Stripp and Ingo Krati . In 1937 he emigrated with his family via England to the USA, where he was unable to gain a foothold professionally. On May 3, 1942, he and his wife committed suicide together in their Queens apartment by turning on the gas.

Works

  • Emil Rathenau and the electrical age. Leipzig 1918 (reprint: New York 1977).
  • German business leaders. Berlin 1924.
  • The new Palestine. Economics Studies. Berlin 1926.
  • Tannerhütte. The novel of a socialization. Hellerau near Dresden 1928.
  • The great world crises in the light of the structural change of the capitalist economy. Zurich / Leipzig 1937.

Web links

Wikisource: Felix Pinner  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of names of the Luckau Jews
  2. ↑ Edmund Schulz: Books for today's historian. In: Ossietzky 4/2008. February 23, 2008, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Catalog of works
  4. ^ German Jewish Writer and Wife Die in Suicide. Jewish Telegraphic Agency , May 5, 1942, accessed March 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pinner, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fassland, Frank (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Pear tree on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1942
Place of death New York City , USA