Franz Elbogen

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Franz Elbogen (left) with his coffee house and tarot friends Egon Dietrichstein and Hugo Sperber , Vienna around 1912

Franz F. Elbogen (* 1889 in Vienna ; † January 14, 1943 in Washington, DC ) was an Austrian industrialist and chansonnier .

Life

Franz was the son of the lawyer Friedrich Elbogen (1854–1909) and the oldest brother of the writer Paul Elbogen . As a soldier in World War I , he was seriously wounded.

He was a co-owner of the talc mine run by Lothar Elbogen (1900–1941) in Oberdorf, Sankt Katharein an der Laming . The company, which was Austria's largest talc producer and dealer, had sales of millions, was de facto Aryanized in 1939 without compensation , and Lothar Elbogen was shot in 1941 in the Šabac concentration camp .

Friedrich Torberg describes Franz Elbogen in Die Tante Jolesch as " bohemian of the purest water". He was known for his self-composed couplets , which he performed accompanied on the lute in Viennese pubs. In the 1920s / 30s he was a board member of the International Society for New Music .

Paul Elbogen said in 1984:

"My brother was a well-known original, had no hat, was very fat, carried a different one of his hundreds of antique walking sticks every day and sang delicious chansons that he had written and set to music himself."

After the "Anschluss" of Austria , Franz Elbogen was deported to the Dachau concentration camp together with Hugo Sperber and was only released after the intervention of the US ambassador in Paris, William C. Bullitt . The conductor Eugene Ormandy , with whom his wife, the pianist and piano teacher Julia Elbogen, b. Goldner (1890–1981), who were related by marriage, enabled them to enter the United States. His two daughters were already in exile in the US in 1938. Elbogen died there of cancer in 1943 at the age of 53.

Works

  • Viennese country! (Lord God waltz.) Waltz song. Text and music (vocals, piano), score, Schuberthaus-Verlag, Vienna 1923.

literature

  • Friedrich Torberg: The Aunt Jolesch or The Fall of the West in Anecdotes. Dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-01266-8 .
  • Friedrich Torberg: The heirs of Aunt Jolesch. Dtv, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7844-1693-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Structure 9/4 (1943), p. 14 digitized .
  2. ^ Jürgen Serke: Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape. Zsolnay, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , p. 270.
  3. ^ Verena Pawlowsky, Harald Wendelin (ed.): Aryanized economy. Robbery and return. Austria from 1938 until today. Volume 2, Mandelbaum, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85476-161-9 , p. 128.
  4. ^ Theodor Venus, Alexandra-Eileen Wenck: The deprivation of Jewish assets as part of the Gildemeester campaign . An empirical study on the organization, form and change of "Aryanization" and Jewish emigration in Austria 1938–1941. (= National Socialist Institutions of Property Deprivation , Volume 2) Publications by the Austrian Commission of Historians, Oldenbourg Verlag, Vienna / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7029-0496-4 , p. 313f.
  5. ↑ Robert Sedlaczek : Aunt Jolesch and her time. A research.
  6. ↑ Leon Botstein, Werner Hanak (Ed.): Vienna. Jews and the city of music, 1870-1938. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2004, ISBN 3-936000-12-3 , p. 144.
  7. ↑ Hans-Harald Müller: Leo Perutz. Biography. Zsolnay, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-552-05416-5 , p. 65.
  8. ↑ Alexandra Kleinlercher: Between Truth and Poetry. Anti-Semitism and National Socialism at Heimito von Doderer. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78605-4 , p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Elbogen, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elbogen, Franz F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian industrialist and chansonnier
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1943
Place of death Washington, DC