Georg Kafka
Georg Kafka (born February 15, 1921 in Teplitz-Schönau , Czech Teplice or Teplice-Šanov, Czechoslovakia ; died at the end of 1944 in the Schwarzheide subcamp ) was a Czechoslovakian writer in the German language.
Life
According to Jürgen Serke, Georg Kafka was an extensive relative of Franz Kafka . He attended elementary school in Teplice, then the humanistic grammar school. He graduated from high school in 1939 at the German St. Stephen's High School in Prague . He attended a Jewish seminar for elementary and community school teachers and then taught at a school. In the summer of 1942 Kafka was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he wrote scenic poems. On May 15, 1944, he voluntarily accompanied his mother to Auschwitz and was transferred from there for forced labor to the Schwarzheide subcamp in Brandenburg.
Gershon Kingsley translated the poem Blessing of the Night into English in 1997 and set it to music. Dietrich Lohff set the funeral prayer to music .
Blessing of the night
I am, beloved, God's narrow mirror,
into which he looks before he goes to rest.
My heart is the red seal of his ring,
which he stamps on the evening before it blows away completely.
I am, beloved, God's silver bowl,
From which he often drinks red wine in his slumber,
From the bottom of which, as from a valley of the
pale moon, the song of melancholy sounds.
I was, beloved, God's silent mirror.
Now I sing soft songs in the distance
To the sound of you when the stars rise around you.
My heart was God's evening red seal.
Now he speaks to me out of the silence of the stars:
“You will meet again in my garden ...”
Works
- Alexander in Jerusalem . Drama. Ms. 1943
- The death of Orpheus. Scenic poem . Ms. 1943
- 4 poems
- Fairy tale about the rain and the golden croissant . Ms. 1943
See HG Adler : Theresienstadt 1941–1945: the face of a forced community; History, sociology, psychology . 2., verb. and additional edition. Tübingen: Mohr, 1960, p. 759
literature
- Georg Kafka , in: Jürgen Serke : Bohemian Villages. Wanderings through a deserted literary landscape . Vienna: Paul Zsolnay, 1987 ISBN 3-552-03926-0 , p. 450
Web links
- Kafka, Georg , near Ghetto Theresienstadt
- Georg Kafka , at Schott
- Dietrich Lohff: Requiem for a Polish boy , at musiques-regenerees
Individual evidence
- ^ Lisa Peschel: Voices from the Edge of the Abyss: Theatrical Texts from the Terezín Ghetto , in: Edna Nahshon (Ed.): Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context . Leiden: Brill, 2012 ISBN 978-90-04-22719-4 , p. 162
- ↑ Kafka, Georg with prisoner number 85563 in the list of prisoner transports from July 3, 1944 from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to the Sachsenhausen satellite camp Schwarzheide, PDF
- ↑ Georg Kafka: Blessing of the night in German and English translation by Gershon Kingsley, at antiwarsongs
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kafka, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovakian writer German language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Schwarzheide subcamp |