Hans Arno Joachim

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Hans Arno Joachim (born May 3, 1902 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on March 27, 1944 ) was a German writer .

Book cover 1935

Life

Hans Arno Joachim grew up as the son of the gynecologist Hermann Joachimcyk (1865-1940 in Gurs) and Emilie Roos in Freiburg and attended the Berthold-Gymnasium . From 1920 he studied German with Philipp Witkop at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and with Artur Kutscher at the University of Munich . From 1923 he studied philosophy with Martin Heidegger in Freiburg.

The close friendship between Joachim, Alfred Kantorowicz and Peter Huchel began in 1923, and they later lived together for a while in a small apartment on Bülowplatz in Berlin. In 1924 Joachim published his first essay in the Frankfurter Zeitung , and in 1929 he published the first of several papers in the Neue Rundschau . Joachim married the graphic artist Gerda Aufrichtig in 1930 (died 1975). Joachim is considered a pioneer of the radio play , in 1932 his radio play The Philosopher at the Window was broadcast.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Joachim and his wife fled to France. In 1936 Joachim was a juror for the Heinrich Heine Prize awarded by the Association of German Writers Abroad .

After the outbreak of war Joachim was imprisoned in an internment camp , from which he was able to escape in 1940; his wife was imprisoned in the Gurs camp . While she managed to emigrate to the USA after her release, Joachim waited in vain for an opportunity to leave the country and stayed in Bormes , then in Sanary . In 1941 Joachim was imprisoned again for a short time in Toulon and then went into hiding . At the beginning of 1944 he was imprisoned in the Brignoles camp , transferred from there to the Drancy assembly camp and deported on March 27, 1944 with convoy number 70 to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was murdered on an unknown date.

Joachim's radio play The Voice of Victor Hugo was produced in 1952 under Herwart Grosses direction for the Berliner Rundfunk .

Works (selection)

Stumbling blocks for Hermann Joachim and Hans Arno Joachim in Freiburg
  • Walter Gutkelch : Poems 1921–1929. Selected by Hans Arno Joachim. Waldemar Hoffmann, Berlin 1930.
  • Victor Hugo's voice. Radio play. Afterword Heinrich Mann . Éditions du Phénix, Paris 1935. First broadcast on Radio Basel December 8, 1935.
  • The philosopher at the window. Essays, prose, radio plays. Edited by Wolfgang Menzel. Edition Isele, Eggingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-925016-52-3 .

literature

  • Alfred Kantorowicz: German fates. Intellectuals under Hitler and Stalin. Europa, Vienna 1964, pp. 195–213.
  • Heinke Wunderlich, Stefanie Menke: Sanary-sur-Mer. German literature in exile. Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01440-1 , pp. 119-127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Joachim , at Stolpersteine ​​in Freiburg
personal data
SURNAME Joachim, Hans Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH after March 27, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp