Fritz Brainin

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Fritz Brainin , later Frederick Brainin , (born August 22, 1913 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 3, 1992 in New York City ) was an Austrian-American writer.

Life

Fritz Brainin's father Isaak Brainin began an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Anton Hanak and was committed to military service in 1914. During the four years his mother Melanie Vogel moved with him and his older brother Max Brainin (1909–2002) to live with their parents in Leipnik . After his release from captivity in 1919, the father became a minor civil servant in a Viennese ministry. Braninin visited his brother and his model Theodor Kramer , the junior high school in the Vereinsgasse and was a member of the Red Falcons . He broke off studying philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1932 after a year. Under the influence of Viktor Frankl , Brainin began to write at an early age. He wrote literature on the Naschmarkt and Die Gooseberry for the cabaret and published in the Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1936 he received the Julius Reich Prize .

In 1938 he fled to the USA via Italy, where he was cut off from his language and repeatedly became mentally ill. He got by as a messenger at various German-American newspapers and was recruited into the US Army in 1943 , where he guarded Austrian prisoners of war in Arizona . In 1945 he was treated in a war veterans hospital for a long time. Since the Austrian state did not make it easier for him to return, he stayed in the USA. In 1949 he married the native Russian Florence Priluk, in 1959 their son Perry Isak Brainin was born. The family moved into a New York community building for the war wounded. Brainin worked as a patent translator and editor for the next few decades.

He started writing in the English language and developed a highly encrypted lyric language. In 1981 the son was murdered by an American fascist, Brainin's wife was insane and henceforth hospitalized, and Brainin continued to be lonely. In his poetry he has now returned to the German language and he developed a broken commentary on his own poetry.

In 1985, Brainin became a member of the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad .

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SURNAME Brainin, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brainin, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1992
Place of death New York City