Franz Schoenberner

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Franz Schoenberner (born December 18, 1892 in Berlin , † April 11, 1970 in Teaneck / New Jersey , USA) was a German editor and writer .

life and work

Franz Schoenberner grew up in Berlin as the eleventh child of the pastor and Berlin superintendent Reinhold Schoenberner. From 1911 to 1914 he studied literature and art history in Berlin and Munich. He was an editor at Musarion Verlag and from 1923 to 1925 editor of the foreign post , the literary supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung and the weekly Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1927, as successor to Georg Hirth , he edited the critical art magazine Jugend, which is important for Art Nouveau . He was an employee and from November 1929 to March 1933 the last editor-in-chief of Simplicissimus before Hitler came to power . One of his friends was one of the cartoonists of Simplicissimus, the co-founder and co-owner Thomas Theodor Heine . Schoenberner was married to Lo, geb. Richter, married until they separated in 1931. When conflicts with the National Socialists arose in connection with Olaf Gulbransson's critical stance , he followed Heine on March 20, 1933, via Switzerland into exile in France and lived in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the southern French Riviera. In this period he published, among others, in Klaus's exile magazine The collection , in the New Journal of Leopold Schwarzschild and the social democratic Zürcher Zeitung popular law . Lo had stayed in Munich.

After the outbreak of war in 1939, like all German emigrants in France, he was interned as an “enemy foreigner”. In the internment camp , the former brick kiln Les Milles near Toulon , he met numerous artists and writers such as Max Ernst , Walter Hasenclever and Lion Feuchtwanger . In 1941 he fled with the help of the refugee organization Emergency Rescue Committee from Varian Fry via Marseille and Lisbon to New York.

There he published the first volume of his memoirs Confessions of a European Intellectual in 1946 (Eng. Title: "Confessions of a European Intellectual"). The second volume, The Inside Story of an Outsider (English title: "Inside views of an outsider") was published in 1949.

In 1951 he was brutally beaten in his apartment and spent the rest of his life paralyzed in a wheelchair. He processed his experiences and thoughts in the third volume of his memoirs You Still Have Your Head: Excursions from Immobility (English title: “Excursions from immobility”).

Only in 1965 did Franz Schoenberner return to Germany for the first time after 32 years on a trip. He died in Teaneck / New Jersey in 1970.

Works

  • Confessions of a European Intellectual . New York, MacMillan 1946. First part of the memoirs of Franz Schoenberner.
    • German edition: Confessions of a European intellectual . Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Verlag 1964
  • The Inside Story of an Outsider . New York, MacMillan 1949. Second part of the memoirs of Franz Schoenberner.
    • German edition: Inside views of an outsider . Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Verlag 1965.
  • You Still Have Your Head: Excursions from Immobility . New York, MacMillan 1957.
    • German edition: Excursions from immobility . Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Verlag 1966.
  • The Way of Reason and Other Essays . Icking and Munich, Kreisselmeier Verlag 1969.

Letters

  • Erwin Panofsky : Correspondence 1910 to 1936 . Edited by Dieter Wuttke. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2001
  • The truth is often unlikely. Thomas Theodor Heine's letters to Franz Schoenberner from exile . Published by Thomas Raff. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2004
  • Franz Schoenberner / Hermann Kesten: Correspondence in exile 1933-1945 . Edited by Frank Berninger. With a foreword by Gerhard Schoenberner . Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2008 ( ISBN 3-8353-0252-3 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burkhard Hawemann: From the Yorckschlösschen to the Kreuzberg town hall . In: Stolpersteine ​​in Berlin. 12 walks in the neighborhood . Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin e. V., Coordination Office Stolpersteine ​​Berlin, Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, Berlin 2013, p. 63.
  2. ^ Google books Briefwechsel, p. 254
personal data
SURNAME Schoenberner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1970
Place of death Teaneck