Franz Horch

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Franz Jakob Horch , in the United States also Franz Jacob Horch (born January 21, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † December 14, 1951 in New York City , United States ), was an Austrian dramaturge and literary agent .

Life

In Austria and Germany

Horch, the son of a consul general and director general, studied theater studies in his hometown at the beginning of the 1920s and received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on the history of the Vienna Burgtheater . In 1925 Horch's work was published by the Austrian Federal Publishing House under the title Das Burgtheater unter Laube und Wilbrandt . While still a student, he got to know the theater very practically at one of Friedrich Rosenthal's traveling stages.

At the age of 23 Horch became dramaturge and deputy director of the Wiener Kammerspiele and remained so until 1926. In the same year Max Reinhardt brought him to the theater in der Josefstadt and in 1929 to the Deutsche Theater Berlin, which he also directed . Horch stayed there until 1932. In that year, Paul Zsolnay Verlag in Vienna hired him to head its own stage sales department. In 1937 he published a book about Paula Wessely under the title Paula Wessely. The way of a Viennese woman .

In exile

After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Horch first fled to Switzerland (Zurich). From November 1938 he lived in New York. There Horch made contacts with German-speaking writers whom he had once met in Berlin and Vienna and became their agent in the USA. His clients included a. Heinrich Mann and Klaus Mann . Other writers represented by Horch were Franz Werfel , Ferenc Molnár and Upton Sinclair . He became friends with Alma Mahler-Werfel . In autumn 1945 Horch married the theater director Maria Gutmann (1889–1963), who was twelve years his senior .

Franz Horch died unexpectedly at the age of only 50 in his adopted New York home.

Web links

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 843 f.
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 61st year 1953, p. 78 (short obituary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Mann: Dear and revered Onkel Heinrich, Rowohlt 2011, ISBN 9783644014015 No. 50 Google Books
  2. ↑ Ursua Rautenberg, Ursula; Ute Schneider: Archive for the history of the book industry, Volume 54, Walter De Gruyter 2001, ISBN 9783110942958 , p. 34 Google Books
  3. ↑ Listening obituary in the New York Times, December 16, 1951
  4. ↑ Alma Mahler. (No longer available online.) • The Pennsylvania State University, July 26, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libraries.psu.edu
  5. ↑ Construction report from October 5, 1945, p. 8
  6. ↑ Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Horch, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horch, Franz Jakob (full name); Horch, Franz Jacob (full name in the United States)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dramaturge and literary agent
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1951
Place of death New York City , United States