Hans Mocha
Hans Mokka , pseudonyms Peter Andres , Christian Schwärmer , Adalbert Rantschek (born May 16, 1912 in Temesvár , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † January 9, 1999 in Darmstadt ) was a German singer of classical music and writer .
Life
Hans Mokka grew up in the Rosengasse in the Iosefin district of Timișoara. Until 1926 he attended the Piarist high school . Then he began an apprenticeship as a printer. During this time he founded a literary circle for young book printers in the workers' hostel. In the late 1930s he was appointed technical director of a publishing house and worked there until 1944. Mokka took violin lessons from Béla Tomm and trained as a baritone in Timișoara and Munich . His first performances of operas and operettas found a willing audience, so after the beginning of World War II he was assigned to a front theater. Mocha was taken prisoner by the Soviets and returned to Timișoara in 1947. After six months in custody, he married the pianist and poet Irene Mokka in 1948 . In Timisoara he worked as an opera singer until 1956 and as an actor at the German State Theater Timisoara from 1957 to 1968 . Between 1956 and 1968 he worked in the Bach Choir of Sibiu and as a soloist. After the death of his wife Irene in 1973, Hans Mokka mainly participated in musical events in churches in Timișoara and in popular cultural events.
As a writer, Hans Mokka expressed himself as a worker poet first in Hungarian, then in German verse. He published his first poems in a school newspaper in 1928. In 1938 and 1939 his first volumes of poetry appeared as private prints. After 1948, in addition to his publications in the "Temesvarer Zeitung", he also wrote in many German-language periodicals in Romania and in the Hungarian newspapers Utunk , Igaz Szó , A Hét , and Előre . During the time of Stalinism he published numerous “proletist texts” and later some “didactic books for young people”. Mokka was co-author of the anthologies "Peace and Construction" (1950), "German Poets of the RVR (Romanian People's Republic)" (1953), "German Storytellers of the RVR" (1955). His cycle "Experiences in the Soviet Union" appeared in the latter anthology. This also includes the prose piece “The broken hammer handle”. In 1971 Mokka's patriotic texts appeared in the Romanian propaganda anthology "Înfrăţiţi slăvim partidul" ( German fraternization we praise the party ). In the 1960s he published in Germany and Austria, among others. In 1991 Mokka emigrated to Germany and settled in Darmstadt.
According to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Herta Müller , Hans Mokka was “an important contributor” to the former Romanian secret service Securitate , “who reported on all the authors of the Banat Action Group and who often came to Germany from Romania with orders from the Securitate.” Also the Romanian-German writer Richard Wagner and William Totok raised allegations of Mokka's activity as an agent from 1962 to 1989, which is said to have been kept in the files of the National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate under the code names Mayer and Hans Müller . The documents inspected further describe that Mokka is said to have said in a 1962 questioning that he had become a member of the Waffen SS in 1943 and that he worked as a guard and librarian in Auschwitz and in 1945 as a cook in Ravensbrück . At Auschwitz he also sang for camp officers.
Honors
- Prize of the Bucharest newspaper Neuer Weg , 1953
Publications (selection)
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Web links
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek : Estate of Hans Mokka (1912–1999) - BSB Ana 566/0: Repertory of the estate of Hans Mokka (1912–1999)
- Hans Mocha . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- William Totok , Elena-Irina Macovei: Între with şi bagatelizare. Despre reconsiderarea critică a trecutului, Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu şi rezistenţa armată anticomunistă din România , ( German Between myth and belittlement. About the critical coming to terms with the past, Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu and the armed, anti-communist resistance in Romania. , See chapter Editşiirom [, see chapter Editşiirom . ) : Bibliotecarul de la Auschwitz, Hans Mokka - Librarian in Auschwitz ]
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e William Totok : Bibliotecar la Auschwitz - Librarian in Auschwitz. In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics , November 7, 2011, partly in Romanian
- ↑ Irene Mokka , Horst Fassel (Ed.): Diary 1948–1973 , AT Edition, LIT Verlag, Münster, 2007, ISBN 3-89781-128-6 , 347S., P. 24
- ^ Siebenbürger Zeitung, Volume 13, August 15, 1999, p. 10
- ^ Joachim Wittstock : Writer in Hermannstadt / Sibiu during the "Years of People's Power" (before and after 1960) , 41 pp., 42
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hans Mokka . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- ↑ a b c d e Dávid Gyula: Romániai magyar irodalmi lexikon. Szépirodalom, közírás, tudományos irodalom, művelődés III. (Kh-M). Főszerk. Entry: Mokka, Hans , Kriterion Verlag, Bucharest, 1994, ISBN 9-73260-369-0 , in Hungarian
- ↑ Ildico Achimescu: Jurnalele Irenei . ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bănățeanul of February 2, 2006, in Romanian.
- ↑ Susanne Führer: "Character assassination was committed against authors." Writer Richard Wagner attacks Banat Swabia. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , December 21, 2009
- ↑ Wilhelm Triebold: "Neither corroborate nor invalidate." Herta Müller calls for external expertise when investigating spy allegations against Horst Fassel. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , April 14, 2010
- ↑ Richard Wagner : Did the Securitate come to Tübingen or was it just the Banat Swabian country team? In: Axis of the Good , April 12, 2010
- ↑ Wilhelm Triebold: Spy accusation against Horst Fassel renewed. “I'm not Filip”. , In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt, July 12, 2010
- ^ William Totok: "Mayer". Dialogues. In: Semi-annual publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics, October 14, 2010
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| SURNAME | Mocha, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andres, Peter; Schwärmer, Christian; Rantschek, Adalbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer of classical music and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temesvár , Temes County , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1999 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |