Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Heinrich Eduard Jacob,
photo taken around 1928

Heinrich Eduard Jacob (born October 7, 1889 as Henry Edward Jacob in Berlin-Friedrichstadt , † October 25, 1967 in Salzburg ) was a German and American journalist and writer . He also wrote under the pseudonyms Henry E. Jacob and Eric Jens Petersen .

family

Heinrich Eduard Jacob was the son of the bank director and editor-in-chief of the "Deutsche Konsularzeitung" Richard Jacob (Breslau 1847 - Berlin 1899) and his wife Martha Jacob, née. Behrendt (Deutsch-Eglau 1865 - Theresienstadt concentration camp 1943), daughter of a manor owner . After the parents divorced in 1895, the mother married the Viennese banker Edmund Lampl in the same year; he moved to Vienna in 1898 .

Life

Youth, training, first job

With his older brother Robert Jacob (Berlin 1883 - Berlin 1924) and his half-sister Alice Lampl (Berlin 1898 - Vienna 1938) Jacob grew up in a middle-class family of the old German-Jewish intellectual world. After visiting high schools in Berlin and Vienna put Jacob in 1909 his Abitur at the " Askanischer school " in Berlin - where he by his teacher Otto Group was coined (1851-1921) altphilologisch - and began at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelm University to Berlin to study German , literature , history and musicology .

During his studies he was already in contact with the Berlin group of early expressionists ; he was friends with Georg Heym , whose first poetry he published in the Berlin-Charlottenburger Wochenblatt “Herold”. From April 1912 he was a theater critic for the German Monday newspaper .

In 1912 the first collection of novels appeared, “The funeral of Gemma Ebria”, in 1915 the diary “Journey through the Belgian War” and in the last year of the war the first novel under the title “The Twenty Year Old”.

Weimar Republic

During the Weimar Republic , Jacob mainly worked as a journalist and columnist . In September / October 1926 he took part as a delegate and special correspondent for the “ Berliner Tageblatt ” at the international film congress in Paris, which had been convened at the instigation of the League of Nations and dealt with the new medium of film as a propaganda tool. As an example of a prevented "hate film", Jacob varied a film about a Corsican robber chief, "Romanetti," produced in 1924 and released in cinemas on July 2, 1926. Le Roi du maquis “(Director: Gennaro Dini ). In his novel “Blood and Celluloid” (1929) Jacob processed the Paris Film Congress and the film about the robber captain.

From 1927 to 1933 Jacob was head of the “Central European Office” of the “Berliner Tageblatt” in Vienna . There he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Humanitas . He has also published a number of novels , volumes of short stories and plays . In almost all of his works one can get to know Jacob as an author “who accurately diagnoses the crises of the modern world; this is also the case in the texts whose material does not come from contemporary history, but is borrowed from historical texts or themes. "(Isolde Mozer, 2005.)

In addition to plays, "dialogues" and other novels, some of which were first published in the "Berliner Tageblatt", the novels "Jacqueline and the Japanese" (1928) and "The Maid of Aachen" appeared in addition to "Blood and Celluloid" "(1931)," Love in Üsküb "(1932) and" A statesman stumbles "(1932),; last new edition: Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-12578-1

Third Reich, concentration camp, emigration

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in Germany, Jacob lost his position at the "Berliner Tageblatt" in March 1933. He now lived as a freelance writer in Vienna and concentrated his literary and literary studies, in addition to biographies, above all on non-fiction .

On the occasion of the XI. At the international PEN congress in Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ), he fought in the forefront against the Nazi-minded writers and thus contributed to the split in the Austrian PEN . During his subsequent endeavors - together with Raoul Auernheimer , Paul Frischauer u. a. - to persuade the "Völkisch" to leave the PEN, a controversy arose with Stefan Zweig , who was very hesitant. His narrative works were on the list of undesirable books during the Nazi era .

In contrast, the first non-fiction book “Sage und Siegeszug des Kaffees” was published by Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin in 1934 (in 1952 Jacob presented a revised new edition; in 2006 a new edition with a thematically supplemented theme was published by Jens Soentgen ). Further works of fiction were only published by Swiss and Dutch publishers (including the Querido publishing house in Amsterdam).

Registration card from Heinrich Eduard Jacob as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", Jacob was arrested on March 22, 1938 and his extensive library and private correspondence, as well as his other belongings, were confiscated. The author was taken into “ protective custody ”. He was first brought to the Dachau concentration camp on the 1st Vienna transport of “protective prisoners”, the so-called “ Prominent Transport” . On September 23, 1938 he was transferred to Buchenwald . Through the constant efforts of his future wife Dora Angel-Soyka (Vienna 1889 - Berlin 1984), sister of the Austrian poet Ernst Angel (1894–1986) and first married to the Viennese writer Otto Soyka (1881–1955), and with help an American uncle, Michael J. Barnes, a brother of Jacob's mother, managed to allow his departure. On January 10, 1939, he was released from Buchenwald, married Dora Angel on February 18, 1939 in Vienna and came with her to the United States via Great Britain . There he settled in New York.

In spite of all his terrible experiences and experiences, Jacob always tried to reconcile and find a balance with his colleagues who remained in Hitler's Germany - with the Germans as a whole.

The literary work of these years includes, among other things, the volume of short stories "Treibhaus Süd America" ​​(1934) and the novel "Der Grinzinger Taugenichts" (1935). In 1937 a Johann Strauss biography (“Johann Strauss and the Nineteenth Century”) was published in Amsterdam , which introduced a whole series of musician biographies for which Jacob, along with individual non-fiction books, is still known today. Translations of the Strauss biography later appeared in the USA, Hungary, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, France and the Netherlands.

Further musical biographies were Joseph Haydn ("Joseph Haydn. His Art, Times, and Glory", 1950; German: 1952), Mozart ("Mozart or Spirit, Music and Destiny", 1955) and Felix Mendelssohn ("Felix Mendelssohn und seine Zeit ", 1959), all of which have also appeared several times (and also in paperback).

USA, remigration, death

In the United States, Jacob wrote for German-language exile magazines such as the Jewish weekly " Aufbau ", but also for the " New York Times ". He became an American citizen on February 28, 1945 .

Its greatest literary success was the cultural history of bread published in New York in 1944 under the title "Six thousand Years of Bread. Its Holy and Unholy History". This book is still considered a standard work today. The original version was reprinted several times, most recently in 2007. In 1954, the Rowohlt publishing house in Berlin, which had published most of Jacobs' larger works in the Weimar years, published a German version: "Six thousand years of bread". Several new editions came out of this, most recently in 1985.

In the summer of 1953 Jacob returned to Europe and stayed in Germany for a time. Overall, however, his life since 1938 was marked by great restlessness, he lived with his wife from hotel to pension. His poor health, mainly due to his internment in the concentration camps, prevented the creation of further literary works from 1959 onwards.

The resting place of Heinrich Eduard Jacob and his wife Dora is on the Jewish cemetery Heerstrasse in Berlin-Westend , Heerstrasse 141 (Scholzplatz).

Aftermath

While as a narrator and novelist after 1945 he was no longer able to build on the effects of the time before 1933 - perhaps he no longer wanted to (cf. Jacobs essays Strictly speaking, everything began with salt. New literature or fashion? - What is, where comes from In : “Die Welt”, Hamburg, December 3, 1960, and How I became a non-fiction author , in: “Die Welt”, Hamburg, October 7, 1964) - Jacob achieved great success with his non-fiction books - a genre that he once co-founded.

There are several manuscripts ready for printing that have not yet been published (see the list below).

Jacob in literary studies

The literary scholar Isolde Mozer dedicated a study of her own to Jacob in 2005 (“On the poetology of Heinrich Eduard Jacob”). With his narrative and dramatic work he has given "modernity an unexpected, namely a mystical profile". "Because the diagnosis of a damaged, fragmented world inspires the Jewish author to create world-historical tales of salvation that are committed to a single goal: the Restitutio ad integrum". According to her, Jacob takes up the idea of ​​the mimetic representation of the self-sacrifice of God through the Kabbalistic arcanum in his aesthetic . In occult Jewish theosophy , Jacob saw a way out of the crisis of modernity (which, according to Mozer, brings him close to Walter Benjamin ).

For the literary scholar Jens-Erik Hohmann ("Immortal ephemeral. The literary work of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs", 2006), "the story of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs and his work [...] is more than the story of a German artist of Jewish descent in the first half of the 20th century". It is "part of the history of Germany. And as such it is also the chronicle of the attempt to survive this story and to assert oneself in it - as a person and as an artist. "

Awards

• 1935 Honorary Membership of the prestigious University of Tokyo .
• 1966 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Level: Cross of Merit 1st Class).

Works

Narrative work, novels, non-fiction books

• The funeral of Gemma Ebria (novellas), Berlin 1912
• Journey through the Belgian War (diary), Berlin 1915
• The gift of the beautiful earth (idylls), Munich 1918; last new edition in "Die neue Reihe" (reprint of editions 1–8 of the Roland volumes), ed. by Martin Sommerfeld: Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1973
• The twenty year old (novel), Munich 1918; 2nd edition 1918; last new edition: Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-87008-106-6
• Beaumarchais and Sonnenfels (play), Munich 1919
• The physicists of Syracuse (Dialogue), Berlin 1920
• The Tulip Violence (play), Berlin 1920
• The Flute Concert of Reason (Novellas), Berlin 1923; 2nd edition 1924
• The downfall of thirteen music teachers (story), Stuttgart 1924
• Demons and Fools (novellas), Frankfurt am Main 1927; 2nd edition 1929; last new edition: Hamburg 1957; Published as a serial in 1931 in the Berliner Tageblatt
• Jacqueline and the Japanese (novel), Berlin 1928; 2nd edition 1929; last new edition: Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-12460-2
• Blood and Celluloid (novel), Berlin 1929; last new edition: Bad Homburg 1986, ISBN 3-925844-02-3
• The maid of Aachen (novel), Berlin [u. a.] 1931; last new edition: Zurich 1934
• Love in Üsküb (novel), Berlin [u. a.] 1932; Published as a serial in 1972 in the National-Zeitung Basel
• A statesman stumbles (novel), Berlin [u. a.] 1932; last new edition: Reinbek 1990, ISBN 3-499-12578-1
• The legend and triumph of coffee. The biography of a world economic material. Rowohlt, Hamburg / Berlin 1934; revised new edition there in 1952; last new edition under the title coffee. The biography of a global economic material (with a continuation of the coffee world from the 1950s to today by Jens Soentgen). Munich: Oekom Verlag , 2006. ISBN 3-86581-023-3
• Greenhouse South America (short stories), Zurich 1934
• The Grinzinger Taugenasst (novel), Amsterdam 1935; last new edition: Kufstein 1953
• Johann Strauss and the Nineteenth Century (biography), Amsterdam 1937; last new edition: Rowohlt, Hamburg, 1953 (until 1960) under the title Johann Strauss Father and Son - The Story of a Musical World Domination
• Six thousand years of bread. Its Holy and Unholy History , New York 1944; New edition: New York 1997, ISBN 1-55821-575-1 ; last new edition: New York, 2007, ISBN 1-60239-124-6
• The World of Emma Lazarus (biography), New York 1949; latest reprint: Whitefish, MT, 2007, ISBN 1-4325-1416-4
• Joseph Haydn . His Art, Times, and Glory (biography), New York 1950
• Estrangeiro (novel), Frankfurt am Main 1951; last new edition: Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-12337-1
• Joseph Haydn (biography), Hamburg 1952; last new edition: Reinbek 1977, ISBN 3-499-14142-6
• Six thousand years of bread (cultural book), Hamburg 1954; last new edition: Hopferau 1985, ISBN 3-922434-74-6
• Mozart or Geist, Musik und Schicksal (biography), Frankfurt am Main 1955; last new edition under the title Mozart. The genius of music ; Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-60028-2
• Felix Mendelssohn and his time (biography), Frankfurt am Main 1959; last new edition: Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-25023-4
• Die Tiroler in Narvik (short story), Berlin-Köpenick 1991 (under the pseudonym Jens Eric Petersen), ISBN 3-910178-05-6 . Limited edition of 999 pieces, a graphic by the artist Christian Ewald is included with the preferred copies .
• With the zeppelin to Pernambuco (travel report), Berlin-Köpenick 1992, ISBN 3-910178-06-5 . Limited edition of 999 pieces, the preferred copies 001-099 include an etching by the painter and set designer Manfred Gruber . The book was awarded the 3rd prize (Terza edizione) in Verona in 1991/1992 on the occasion of the award of the prestigious Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano per la Storia, l'Arte e la Qualita del Libro .
• Stations in between (essay on Alfred Döblin ), Berlin-Köpenick 1993, ISBN 3-910178-09-7 . Limited edition of 999 pieces, the preferred copies 001-099 are accompanied by a folding graphic by the artist Dieter Goltzsche .

Editing

• The fire rider. Sheets for poetry, criticism, graphics , Berlin 1 / 1921–1922 to 3/1924 (reprint of all issues: Kraus Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1970).
• Verses of the living. German poetry since 1910 , Berlin 1924 (2nd extended edition 1927, 3rd extended edition 1932). The anthology was preceded by an extensive introduction by Jacob, in the supplementary afterwords of the 2nd and 3rd editions he continued the train of thought and commented on the poetry of the twenties.
• Deutsch-Französische Rundschau (organ of the “Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft”, Vol. 1–6 as co-editor alongside Otto Grautoff , Rudolf Meerwarth , Fritz Norden , Edgar Stern-Rubarth , Maurice Le Boucher , Edmond Jaloux and Henri Lichtenberger ), Berlin, January 1928 to June 1933. The sister magazine "Revue D'Allemagne" was published in Paris.

Translations

• Honoré de Balzac : Artists and Fools , Berlin 1925 (a total of four stories, three translated by Jacob, one by Hete Maass). Later editions of these stories appeared under the title “The unknown masterpiece”, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-257-20477-9 ; most recently Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-257-23998-0 .

Co-author of books and anthologies

• The Greek Journey ; in: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Behl (Ed.): Gerhart Hauptmann on his 50th birthday , Berlin: Rudolf Schmidt Verlag, 1912; P. 15.
• Stranger sleeper in the coupe ; in: Max Brod (Ed.): ARKADIA. A yearbook for poetry , Leipzig 1913; Pp. 205-210.
• The story of poor Fedja ; in: Hermann Rosenberg (Hrsg.): The living corpse (after Leo N. Tolstoi in the context of the "Reinhardt Classics" after a performance in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by Max Reinhardt ), Berlin-Charlottenburg: Felix Lehmann, 1913; Pp. 1-25.
• Conscription is not yet communism ; in: Kurt Hiller (Ed.): DAS ZIEL. Yearbooks for Intellectual Politics , Volume IV, Munich 1920; Pp. 139-141.
• Elegy to Weimar. Do you still remember Rowohlt? ; in: Ernst and Hilda [Rowohlt on the wedding] , “Das Tagebuch”, issue 1, 1st year, Berlin, April 1st, 1921; Private printing.
• Captain and antiquity ; in: Ludwig Marcuse (ed.): Gerhart Hauptmann and his work , Berlin and Leipzig 1922; Pp. 47-55.
• Poetry and Fine Science 1920/21 ; in: Hans Flemming (editor): Mosse-Almanach 1922 , Berlin 1922; Pp. 111-124.
• Haircut is not yet freedom ; in: Friedrich M. Huebner (Ed.): The woman of tomorrow as we wish her , Leipzig 1929; Pp. 127-134. New edition with a foreword by Silvia Bovenschen : Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-458-32894-7 .
• Pöffl's acquittal ; in: Ernst Glaeser (Ed.): CONCLUSION. A cross-section through German journalism , Hamburg 1929; Pp. 228-232. New edition with an afterword by Helmut Möhrchen : Kronberg / Ts .: Scriptor Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-589-20615-2 .
• The walk ; in: Herbert Günther (Ed.): Here writes Berlin , Berlin 1929. New editions: Berlin: Fannei & Walz, 1989, ISBN 3-927574-01-5 ; Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-548-24513-7 .
• A child is playing in Sarajevo ; in: People on the street , anthology, Stuttgart: Engelhorns Nachf., 1931.
• Rilke is dead. On the sixth anniversary of the poet's death - December 29, 1932 ; in: The island ship. Magazine for the Friends of Insel-Verlag , Christmas 1932; Pp. 1-3.
• The Frankfurt Book Fire ; in: Hermann Kesten (Ed.): Novellas of German contemporary poets , Amsterdam 1933; Pp. 211-229. (see also 1954.)
• Who Called You Here? ; in: Ernest Hemingway (Ed.): Men at War. The Best War Stories of All Time , New York: Crown Publishers, 1942; Pp. 90-100. The novella appeared in advance in “STORY. The Magazine of the Short Story ", Vol. XVIII, No 87, New York, January / February 1941; pp. 9-18. Jacob wrote this novella under his pseudonym Eric Jens Petersen; see. also "Werke" 1991 and "Zeittafel" 1942.
• Heinrich Heine ; in: Emil Ludwig and Henry B. Kranz (eds.): The Torch of Freedom (Twenty Exiles of History), New York 1943; Pp. 149-166.
• Truth for Truth's Sake ; in: Angel Flores (Ed.): The Kafka Problem. An anthology of criticism about Franz Kafka , New York 1946; Pp. 53-59. New editions: New York 1963 and 1975.
• Ludwig, the artist ; in: In Memoriam Emil Ludwig (1881-1948) , Moscia 1950; Pp. 75-76.
• The Frankfurt book fire. A Goethe novella ; in: books full of good spirits (almanac on the occasion of "30 years of the Gutenberg Book Guild "), Frankfurt am Main 1954; Pp. 199-211. (see also 1933.)
• The poet (poem); in: Paul Raabe (ed.): I cut out time , Munich 1954; New edition 1964.
• Mozart the European ; in: Paul Schaller and Hans Kühner-Wolfskehl (eds.): Mozart aspects , Olten and Freiburg i. Br. 1956; Pp. 289-303.
• Joseph Haydn ; in: Theodor Heuss , Hermann Heimpel and Benno Reifenberg (eds.): The great Germans , 4 volumes, Berlin 1956/1957; Pp. 229-239, Vol. II.
• The risen St. Matthew Passion ; in: S. Fischer Almanach - The 72nd year , Frankfurt am Main 1958; Pp. 62-67.
• From the Petropolis police files ; in: Erich Fitzbauer (Ed.): Stefan Zweig - Reflections of a creative personality (first special publication International Stefan-Zweig-Gesellschaft ), Vienna 1959; Pp. 101-106.
• Berlin, pre-war poetry and attitude to life ; in: Siegfried Buchenau (Ed.): Imprimatur - Yearbook for Book Lovers Society of Bibliophiles , Vol. III, Frankfurt am Main 1961/1962; Pp. 186-189.
• Berlin, pre-war poetry and attitude to life ; in: Paul Raabe (Ed.): Expressionism. Records and memories of contemporaries , Freiburg i.Br. 1965; Pp. 15-19.
• On the history of German poetry since 1910 ; in: Paul Raabe (Ed.): Expressionism. The struggle for a literary movement , Munich 1965; Pp. 194-211. New edition: Zurich 1987.
• Serge Saxe and English Poetry ; in: Universal Pursuit - The Chreative World of Serge Saxe , Austin (Texas / USA): The Texas Quarterly Studies, 1965; Pp. 100-102.
• The dialects and the standard languages ; in: Hans Scholz and Heinz Ohff (eds.): One language - many tongues. Contemporary authors write in German dialects , Gütersloh 1966; Pp. 253-261.
• That was Georg Brandes ; in: Benno Reifenberg and Wolfgang Weyrauch (eds.): Federlese. An almanac from the German PEN Center , Munich 1967; Pp. 108-114.
• A German Singspiel ; in: Attila Csampai and Dieter Holland (eds.): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The kidnapping from the Seraglio. Texts, materials, comments . Reinbek b. Hamburg: rororo opera non-fiction book, 1983; Pp. 162-183. ISBN 3-499-17757-9 .
• The night in Yemen ; in: Michael Müller (Ed.): Coffee. A small culinary anthology . Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1998; Pp. 14-25. ISBN 3-15-018207-7 .
• Pursuit and victory of coffee ; in: Michael Müller (Ed.): Coffee. A small culinary anthology . Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1998; Pp. 28-35. ISBN 3-15-018207-7 .
• Joseph Haydn looks into space ; in: Frederick Baker (Ed.): Europa erlesen - London . Klagenfurt: Wieser Verlag, 2001; Pp. 69-70. ISBN 3-85129-359-2 .
• Poetic aerial photographs from a trip to Pernambuco (1932) ; in: Hartmut Löffel (Ed.): Upper Swabia as a landscape of flying. An anthology . Konstanz & Eggingen: Edition Isele, 2007; Pp. 283-289. ISBN 978-3-86142-429-1 .

Previously unpublished works

• The Last Adventure of Alexander (novella, 1906). It is the first novella by Heinrich Eduard Jacob, which he wrote at the age of sixteen on the basis of the Alexander saga (= Alexander the Great ). More about this cf. under "Literature" at Isolde Mozer, 2005.
• The great fog over Belgium (novel). Heinrich Eduard Jacob completed the 894-page manuscript in 1941 while in exile in the United States.
• Babylon's Birthday or a party in New York (novel, around 1953 and version II, around 1959). Heinrich Eduard Jacob did not complete the final part of the German version of this New York novel, which he wrote in American exile; the English version from 1953 is available in a complete translation (300 pages) by Richard Winston.
• Fräuleins (Roman, 1945/1946). Perfect.
• Estrangeiro (play, ca.1945). Accomplished; see. in addition under "Works" the novel of the same name.
• Bernadotte. The man who couldn't be the second (novel biography, approx. 1935–1938). Unfinished; it is about Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (1763–1844), who was marshal under Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821) and who later became King of Sweden and Norway as Charles XIV. John .
• Per Kristian is looking for his regiment (Roman, ca.1941). Unfinished.
• Astor (biography of a novel, ca.1944). Unfinished; it is about Johann Jacob Astor (1763-1848) from Walldorf , who emigrated to America and made a very large fortune there.
• In-house theater with Doctor Lehner (novel, around 1940). Accomplished; Co-author Dora Jacob .
• Deborahs Siegesreigen (dance pantomime, approx. 1942). The pantomime comprises four scenes and is 36 pages long.
• Fashions of Love (Film Treatment, ca.1950). Ernst Angel is co-author of the 50-page typescript .

literature

• Jeffrey B. Berlin : Work on the non-fiction book. On the 100th birthday of Heinrich Eduard Jacob on October 7 ; in: " Neue Zürcher Zeitung " No. 232, Zurich, October 6, 1989, p. 27.
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: In Exile. The Friendship and Unpublished Correspondence between Thomas Mann and Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte", 64th year, issue 1 (1990), pp. 172–187. ISSN  0012-0936
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: Thomas Mann and Heinrich Eduard Jacob. Unpublished Letters about Haydn ; in: " Germanisch-Romanische monthly ", N. F., Volume 40, Issue 2 (1990), pp. 171-189. ISSN  0016-8904
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: 'Ephemeral, Immortal' - Heinrich Eduard Jacobs conversations with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and two unpublished letters ; in: "Hofmannsthal-Blätter" (publications by the Hugo von Hofmannsthal Society), Frankfurt am Main, issue 41/42 (1991/1992); Pp. 79-85. ISSN  0441-6813
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: 'Was our [concentration camp] imprisonment an isolated incident, something monstrously accidental or was it the natural consequence of natural conditions?' - The Unpublished Exile Correspondence between Heinrich Eduard Jacob and Raoul Auernheimer (1939-1943) ; in: "Germanisch-Romanische monthly", NF, Volume 49, Issue 2 (1999), pp. 209-239. ISSN  0016-8904
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: 'Through me it goes to the city of the chosen ones, through me it goes to eternal pain [...] Let go of all hope! " - The Unpublished Correspondence of Heinrich Eduard Jacob in Dachau ans Buchenwald 1938-1939 (and unpublished letters with the German-PEN-Club in London) ; in: "Germanisch-Romanische monthly", N. F., Volume 49, Issue 3 (1999), pp. 307–331. ISSN  0016-8904
• Jeffrey B. Berlin: Experience and testimony. Perspectives on the genesis of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' biography 'The World of Emma Lazarus' . In: “Études Germaniques” 63 (2008) 4, pp. 707–722. ISSN  0014-2115
• Ernst Blass : Impressionist Classicism ; in: “ Die Aktion ” No. 14, Berlin, April 1, 1912, Col. 430–432. (This article was preceded by a contribution by Jacobs under the same title in "Die Aktion" No. 13, Berlin, March 25, 1912, Col. 392–397.)
• Ernst Blass: Portraits of Young Poets. Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: The literary world , No. 13/14, Berlin, March 28, 1929, p. 5.
• Siglinde Bolbecher & Konstantin Kaiser : Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: “Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature”, Vienna 2000, pp. 334–336.
• Jan Brandt: The biographer of things. How and why Heinrich Eduard Jacob went from a novelist to a non-fiction author ; in: “Non-fiction. The arsenal of other genres ”, Issue 1, 2007, ed. by David Oels, Stephan Porombka and Erhard Schütz.
• Jutta Buchholz: 'I am the mediator and the mediated.' The work of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs from 1910 to 1933 . Master's thesis, submitted in 1987 at the German Institute of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen; unpublished.
• Annemarie Buschmann: The secret of the green suitcase. Saarbrücken conversation with Dora Jacob - A life in the past ; in: " Saarbrücker Zeitung ", Saarbrücken, November 14, 1973.
• Andrea Capovilla: The living shadow. Film in literature until 1938. Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-98300-9 .
• Anja Clarenbach: Gertrud Isolani and Heinrich Eduard Jacob. Correspondence on ' City Without Men ' ; in: “Exile. Research, Findings, Results ”, Volume 14, No. 2 (1994), pp. 37-50. ISSN  0721-6742
• Anja Clarenbach: On the 30th anniversary of Heinrich Eduard Jacob's death. 'Finally recognize this charming narrator!' ; in: “Aufbau”, Vol. LXIII, No. 22, New York, October 24, 1997, p. 21.
• Anja Clarenbach: 'Finis Libri' - The writer and journalist Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889–1967). Dissertation, submitted in 1999 in the Department of Language, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg; published in 2003 as an Internet setting at: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2002/948/pdf/dissertation.pdf
• Richard Drews & Alfred Kantorowicz (eds.): Forbidden and burned. German literature - suppressed for 12 years . Berlin & Munich: Ullstein-Kindler Verlag, 1947; P. 78. Reissued under the same title with a foreword by Helmut Kindler and an afterword by Walter Jens , Munich: Kindler Verlag, 1983; P. 120. ISBN 3-463-00860-2 .
• Marlen Eckl: "Great tender Brazil" - The image of Brazil in the works of Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Pandaemonium Germanicum - Revista de estudos germanistícos", São Paulo, 14 / 2009.2, pp. 54–83. (Online: www.fflch.usp.br/dlm/alemao/pandaemoniumgermanicum).
• Hermann Eiselen: Heinrich E. Jacob (October 7, 1889– October 25, 1967). The creator of the standard work ; in: ders .: The modern age of the bakery. A journey through their history from 1860 to 2005. Bochum: BackMedia Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006, pp. 239–241. ISBN 3-9808146-2-9 .
• Eckhard Faul: War and Cinema. Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' novel 'Blood and Celluloid' (1929) ; in: Still they live. Ostracized books, persecuted authors. On the Effects of National Socialist Literary Policy , ed. by Reiner Wild in collaboration with Sabina Becker, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui and Rainer Marx. Munich 2003, pp. 145–153 (Festschrift for Professor Dr. Gerhard Sauder), ISBN 3-88377-745-5 .
• Marion Fleischer: The foreign that has become familiar. Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' novel 'Jacqueline and the Japanese' ; in: Yoshinori Shichiji (Hrsg.): Experienced and Imagined Strangers (files of the 8th International Germanist Congress Tokyo 1990, Volume 9). Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 1991, pp. 474-480, ISBN 3-89129-909-5 .
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach: Epilogue to Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' novel 'A statesman stumbles' , Reinbek 1990, pp. 121–125, ISBN 3-499-12578-1 .
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach: Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Between Two Worlds / Zwischen Zwei Welten (bio-bibliographical information), Aachen 1997, ISBN 3-8265-2567-1 .
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach: Heinrich Eduard Jacob in exile in Austria ; in: “With the accordion. Journal for Literature of Exile and Resistance ”, 16th vol., No. 2, Vienna 10/1999, pp. 51–56, ISSN  1563-3438 .
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach: Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "German-language exile literature since 1933" (Vol. 3 USA Part 1), ed. by John M. Spalek et al., Bern & München 2000, pp. 215-257, ISBN 3-908255-16-3 .
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach: Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Metzler's Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature", ed. by Andreas Kilcher , Stuttgart 2000, pp. 268-270, ISBN 3-476-01682-X .
• Ute Gesche: Heinrich Eduard Jacob as editor of the magazine 'Der Feuerreiter' (1921–1924) . Master's thesis, submitted in 1992 in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities - Modern German Literature - at the Free University of Berlin; unpublished.
• Martin Glaubrecht:  Jacob, Heinrich Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Herbert Günther : Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Die Literatur", 33rd vol., issue 11, Munich, August 1, 1931, pp. 614–617 (with a caricature drawing by BF Dolbins by Jacob).
• Hermann Haarmann , Walter Huder , Klaus Siebenhaar (eds.): "That was just a prelude ...". Book burning in Germany in 1933: requirements and consequences . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) from May 8 to July 3, 1983. Berlin & Vienna 1983, p. 447, ISBN 3-88602-076-2 .
• Murray G. Hall : Österreichische Verlagsgeschichte 1918–1938 (2 volumes), Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-05585-9 (Cologne), ISBN 3-205-07258-8 (Vienna).
• Murray G. Hall: The Paul Zsolnay Verlag. From the foundation to the return from exile , Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-484-35045-8 .
• Charlotte Heymel: Tourists to the front. The war experience 1914–1918 as travel experience in contemporary travelogues . Münster / Berlin: LIT Verlag Dr. Wilhelm Hopf, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-9973-8 .
• Jens-Erik Hohmann: Immortal, impermanent. The literary work of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs (1889–1967) . Dissertation, submitted in 2003 in the Department of Language, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Hamburg. Lübeck & Marburg, 2006, ISBN 3-89959-464-9 .
• Gertrud Isolani : letters, conversations, encounters (1st part of the memoir: Berlin, France, Switzerland) . Cologne & Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-412-01685-3 .
• Christian Jäger & Erhard Schütz: City images between literature and journalism: Vienna, Berlin and the feature pages of the Weimar Republic . Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag (DUV), 1999. ISBN 978-3-8244-4349-9 .
• José Miranda Justo: Preface / Introdução (Heinrich Eduard Jacob: como dar a palavra às coisas) to Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' cultural-historical non-fiction book 'Sechstausend Jahre Brot' / '6000 anos de pão' , Lisboa 2003, pp. 9–23, ISBN 972- 608-153-X .
• Lars-Broder Keil: Lack of interest in personal papers in Berlin ; in: “Welt am Sonntag” (capital Berlin) No. 3, Berlin, January 18, 1998; P. 75.
• Gabriele Killert & Richard Schroetter: Forced extermination scheduled. The forgotten Jewish writer Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (international edition), No. 78, Zurich, 5./6. April 1997, p. 50.
• Ernst Lissauer: Wassermann commemoration of the 'Union' ; in: “Jüdische Wochenschrift 'Die Truth'”, vol. 50, No. 5, Vienna, February 2, 1934, p. 1.
• Thomas Mann : Foreword to Heinrich Eduard Jacobs composer's biography 'Haydn - His art, his time, his fame' , Hamburg 1952, p. 6.
• Ludwig Marcuse : Soul Dialectic ; in: “The literary echo”, Volume 24, Issue 4, Berlin, November 15, 1921, p. 217 f.
• Nicole Mattern: Destructive Creation. Money and Inflation Heinrich Eduard Jacobs Jacqueline and the Japanese (1928) and Hans Falladas Wolf Among Wolves (1937). In: Nicole Mattern and Timo Rouget (eds.): The great crash. Economic crises in literature and film. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2016, pp. 193–215.
• Gabriele Mittag: There are only damned people in Gurs . Literature, culture and everyday life in an internment camp in the south of France. 1940–1942 , Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89308-233-6 .
• Isolde Mozer: On poetology with Heinrich Eduard Jacob . Dissertation, submitted in 2004 in the Department of Modern Philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3224-1 .
• New Society for Literature (NGL): Heinrich Eduard Jacob 1889–1967 . Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the 90th birthday of HEJ, Berlin 1979. Contributions by: Michael Bühnemann , Knut Hickethier , Karla Höcker , Dietger Pforte , Ernst Piper , Hannes Schwenger .
• Heinz Ohff : writer from Europe. Heinrich Eduard Jacob 100 years ; in: “ Der Tagesspiegel ” No. 13389, Berlin, October 8, 1989, p. XVI (Sunday supplement “Weltspiegel-Literatur”).
• Walther G. Oschilewski : Knowing about the fantasy of the real. Reencounter with Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Telegraf", Berlin, June 20, 1965.
• Valerie Popp: Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Babylon's Birthday ; in this. "But everything was different here ..." Pictures of America from German-language exile literature after 1939 in the USA . Würzburg 2008; Pp. 231-256. ISBN 978-3-8260-3831-0 .
• Paul Raabe : Jacob, Heinrich Eduard ; in: "The authors and books of literary expressionism". A bibliographical handbook in collaboration with Ingrid Hannich-Bode, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 234-236, ISBN 3-476-00575-5 .
• Marco Raindl: Literary discussions with Japan in the twenties: M. Vischer, HE Jacob, R. Huelsenbeck . Master's thesis, submitted in 2001 in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities - Modern German Literature - at the Free University of Berlin; unpublished.
• Angela Reinthal: 'Where heaven and Kurfürstendamm meet' - studies and sources on Ernst Blass (1890–1939) . Dissertation, submitted in 1999 at the New Philology Faculty - German Department - of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg. Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89621-112-9 .
• Sagara Morio : Foreword (Hashigaki) to Heinrich Eduard Jacob's novel 'Jacqueline and the Japanese' (Jakkurinu to nihonjin) . Morio Sagara in Romanian. Tokyo 1935, pp. 3-6.
• Hans J. Schütz: Epilogue to Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' novel 'Blood and Celluloid' , Bad Homburg 1986, pp. 267-277, ISBN 3-925844-02-3 .
• Hans J. Schütz: Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: I was once a German poet. Forgotten and misunderstood authors of the 20th century , Munich 1988, pp. 129-134, ISBN 3-406-33308-7 .
• Hannes Schwenger : Epilogue to Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' novel 'The Twenty Years Old ' , Berlin 1983, pp. 287–295, ISBN 3-87008-106-6 .
• Hannes Schwenger: No grave in Weißensee. Heinrich Eduard Jacob in Berlin ; in: Ulrich Janetzki (Ed.): Encounters - Confrontations. Berlin authors talk about historical writers in their city . Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 241-248, ISBN 3-548-20763-4 .
• Richard Sheppard: The Writings of the New Club 1908-1914 (2 vols.), Hildesheim 1980/1983, ISBN 3-8067-0836-3 (Volume I), ISBN 3-8067-0837-1 (Volume II).
• Jens Soentgen : Heinrich Eduard Jacob - Notes on the author and work ; in: Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Coffee - The biography of a world economic substance . Munich: Oekom Verlag, 2006, pp. 341-348, ISBN 3-86581-023-3
• Yvonne Steiner: Erich Wolfgang Korngold : The Kathrin - a rightly forgotten opera? Term paper, submitted in 2005 at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich; unpublished typescript, 36 pp.
• Jochen Stöckmann: The fascination of things. Heinrich Eduard Jacob was born a hundred years ago ; in: " Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ", Hanover, October 7, 1989, p. 8.
• Arne Stollberg : Erich Wolfgang Korngold : The Kathrin. The fate of an 'apolitical' opera between 1932 and 1950 ; in: Word and Music. Salzburg Academic Contributions , ed. by Ulrich Müller et al., Vol. 58; The (music) theater in exile and dictatorship. Lectures and discussions at the Salzburg Symposium 2003 , ed. by Peter Csobádi et al., Anif / Salzburg 2005, pp. 392-406.
• Michael Töteberg : Film novels - Arnolt Bronnen, Arnold Höllriegel, Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: "Scenario 3. Film and Screenplay Almanac". Berlin: Bertz and Fischer, 2009; Pp. 237-243. ISBN 978-3-86505-188-2 .
• Claudia Anne Wagner: The creature from art and technology. The representation of film and the film environment in selected novels of the Weimar Republic. Master's thesis, submitted in 1999 at the Philosophical Faculty II - Modern German Literature - at the Humboldt University in Berlin; unpublished.
• Till Gerrit Waidelich: calculated popularity in Korngold's 'Die Kathrin' ; in: Arne Stollberg (Hrsg.): Erich Wolfgang Korngold - child prodigy of the modern age or the last romantic? (Report on the international symposium Bern 2007) Munich: edition text + kritik, undated [2008]; Pp. 213-233. ISBN 978-3-88377-954-6 .
• Hans-Albert Walter : Fritz H. Landshoff and the Querido Verlag 1933–1950 (“Marbacher Magazin”, special issue No. 78/1997), Marbach a. N. 1997. ISBN 3-929146-62-2 .
• Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Cologne: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008. ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 . (see pp. 120–123.)
• Lutz Weltmann: Symphonies and Syntheses. Heinrich Eduard Jacob on his 70th birthday (October 7th) ; in: “Aufbau”, New York, October 9, 1959, p. 20.
• Heiner Widdig: Burned, pursued, forgotten. Heinrich Eduard Jacob ; in: " Illustrierte Stadtzeitung zitty " No. 22 (Berlin, October 1987), p. 40 f. ISSN  0179-9606
• Georg Zivier : You met in Romansh. Heinrich Eduard Jacob on his 75th birthday ; in “Der Tagesspiegel”, Berlin, October 7, 1964.

estate

Jacob's estate is in the manuscript department of the German Literature Archive Marbach (DLA), Schillerhöhe 8-10, D-71666 Marbach am Neckar.

It includes extensive correspondence collections. Correspondence partners include Günther Anders , Ernst Angel , Raoul Auernheimer , Julius Bab , Richard Beer-Hofmann , CFW Behl, Max Brod , Franz Theodor Csokor , Ernst Feder , Lion Feuchtwanger , Oskar Maurus Fontana , Bruno Frank , René Fülöp Miller , Manfred George , Claire Goll and Ivan Goll , Herbert Günther , Willy Haas , Hans Habe , Philippe Halsman , Ernst Heimeran , Werner Richard Heymann , Karl Jakob Hirsch , Gertrud Isolani , Hermann Kesser , Walther Kiaulehn , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Arnold Krieger , Heinrich Maria Ledig- Rowohlt , Hendrik Willem van Loon , Ernst Lothar , Emil Ludwig , David Luschnat , Alma Mahler-Werfel , Erika Mann , Heinrich Mann , Klaus Mann , Thomas Mann , Ludwig Marcuse , Heinz Ohff , Paul Raabe , Piero Rismondo , Alexander Roda-Roda , Jules Romains , Ernst Rowohlt , Serge Saxe , Albert Schweitzer , Friedrich Torberg , Kurt Tucholsky , Fritz von Unruh , Johannes Urzidil , Jakob Wassermann , Werner Weber , Armin T. Wegner , Christian Wegner , Fra nz Werfel , Richard Winston , Friderike Maria Zweig , Stefan Zweig , as well as many other people.

Jacobs' estate administrator was Hans Jörgen Gerlach († 2011), supported by Edith Weiß-Gerlach.

Timetable

• 1889 Born on October 7th in Berlin (Friedrichstadt), Charlottenstrasse 50/51. The child's maiden name is Henry Edward Jacob; he later called himself Heinrich Eduard Jacob.
• 1895 Parents divorce and enrolled in the preschool of the Royal French Gymnasium in Berlin.
• 1898 The mother and her children move to Vienna.
• 1899 From the school year 1899/1900 attendance at the kk akademischen grammar school and the kk Maximilians grammar school in Vienna. Father dies on June 19th.
• 1902–09 attendance at the humanistic Askanisches Gymnasium in Berlin. Jacob obtained his school-leaving certificate there on March 6, 1909.
• 1909–13 studied literature, German literature, music and history at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelms University (now: Humboldt University in Berlin ).
• 1909 The Neue Club , founded by Kurt Hiller, holds its first event on November 8th, in which Jacob also takes part.
• 1910 On July 6th, Jacob reads his prose sketch Sommernacht in the Neuer Club and draws the poet Ernst Blass' attention to the establishment. Also in 1910, while still a student, he took up his first job as the features editor of the Berlin-Charlottenburger Wochenblatt Herold . There he first had two poems by his friend Georg Heym printed.
• 1912 Jacob becomes the editor in charge of theater, music and art for the radical Berliner Wochenblatt, the Deutsche Montagszeitung . Numerous contributions to Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion and Herwarth Walden's Der Sturm . The first book, the volume of novellas Das Leichenbegänge der Gemma Ebria , was published by Erich Reiss Verlag in Berlin.
• 1914 Brother Robert is seriously wounded as a soldier in the First World War on October 7th in the Battle of the Marne . For Jacob himself, as a humanist and pacifist, going to war is out of the question. To do this, he drags Walter Hasenclever through occupied Belgium with me and records his impressions in a diary. Jacob is present on New Year's Eve when the “Council of Spiritual Warriors” meets in the Weimar Hotel Elephant , consisting of the publisher Ernst Rowohlt and his colleagues Martin Buber , Albert Ehrenstein , Walter Hasenclever, Rudolf Leonhard , Kurt Pinthus and Paul Zech .
• 1915 The diary was published by Erich Reiss Verlag under the title Journey through the Belgian War in Berlin .
• 1916 Jacob moves to Switzerland and writes his first articles for the Berliner Tageblatt from there . He did not officially return to Berlin until 1921.
• 1918 The autobiographical novel The Twenty Years Old , which he wrote between 1912 and 1914 and completed in 1915, was published by Georg Müller Verlag in Munich . Also in Munich, at Roland Verlag Dr. Albrecht Mundt , his idyllic ribbon The Gift of the Beautiful Earth appears .
• 1919 The play Beaumarchais and Sonnenfels was published in Munich by Georg Müller Verlag . The world premiere took place on December 6th at the Stadttheater Bochum .
• 1920 Jacob became a Rowohlt author with his work The Physicists of Syrakus . In the same year Ernst Rowohlt brought out the play Der Tulpenfrevel . The world premiere took place on May 31, 1921 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
• 1921 Jacob became editor of the magazine Der Feuerreiter. Sheets for Poetry and Criticism and brought together authors of high standing such as Felix Braun , Bertolt Brecht , Max Brod , Alfred Döblin , Ivan Goll , Annette Kolb , Robert Musil , Ernst Weiß , Arnold Zweig , Stefan Zweig and others. v. a.
• 1923 Again at Rowohlt published the short stories The flute concert of reason .
• 1924 The fire rider. Sheets for poetry and criticism were discontinued. The story The Downfall of Thirteen Music Teachers was published in Stuttgart ( Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt ). Jacob published the anthology Verse der Lebenden in Berlin's Propylänen Verlag . German poetry published since 1910 . Excellent names like Johannes R. Becher , Gottfried Benn , Ernst Blass , Max Brod , Kurt Hiller , Oskar Loerke , Georg Trakl , Franz Werfel , Paul Zech and others. a. are gathered in it. Death of his brother Robert on November 14th in Berlin.
• 1925 On August 9th, an article by Jacob appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt , which describes in fictional form an incident how courts - or the judiciary - deal with writers and their texts. He thus reveals - from a legal point of view - an untenable encroachment on poetic freedom. This is the starting point for the founding of the group in 1925 within the PEN Club founded in 1921 . Jacob himself does not belong to the group.
• 1926 Jacob took part in the Paris Film Congress as a delegate and reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt , where it was primarily about taking a position against inflammatory films. Suggestion for his later novel Blood and Celluloid . Controversy between Jacob and Theodor Heuss , then a member of the Reichstag of the German Democratic Party , who approved the law prepared in silence by the government to protect young people from rubbish and dirty writing.
• 1927 The volume of novels Demons and Fools was published by Rütten & Loening in Frankfurt am Main. Theodor Wolff appointed Jacob to head the Central European Office of the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna. Board member of the Goethebund for the Protection of Free Art and Science.
• 1928 The novel Jacqueline and the Japanese is published by Rowohlt . Jacob became the second chairman of the newly founded German-French Society in Berlin. Further members are Konrad Adenauer , Albert Einstein , Otto Dix , Otto Grautoff , Thomas Mann , Arthur Schnitzler and others. a. At the same time Jacob becomes co-editor of the magazine Deutsch-Französische Rundschau .
• 1929 Rowohlt published the novel Blood and Celluloid . Jacob read from his works on the radio for the first time.
• 1930 Blood and Celluloid appeared in translations in the USA, England, Sweden and the Netherlands.
• 1931 The novel Die Magd von Aachen was published by Paul Zsolnay Verlag in Vienna . The composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold set the novel for his opera Die Kathrin to music . In May Jacob went on a tour of Yugoslavia with members of the foreign press. Suggestion for his novel Love in Üsküb and the short story A child plays in Sarajevo .
• 1932 Until Hitler came to power, Jacob represented the Schlesische Funkstunde - Welle Breslau in Vienna . Zsolnay published his novels Love in Üsküb and A Statesman Stumbles . On March 23, Jacob traveled as a guest of the Zeppelin Society and travel reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt from Lake Constance on the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin airship to Pernambuco in Brazil. Inspiration for his cultural-historical work, Legend and Triumph of Coffee , the volume of short stories Treibhaus Süd America , the novel Estrangeiro and the travelogue With the Zeppelin to Pernambuco .
• 1933 Immediately after Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor in January, Jacob lost his job with the Berliner Tageblatt . The novel Blood and Celluloid is on the first "black list" and fell victim to the book burning on May 10th. Jacob now lives as an exile and freelance writer in Vienna. On the occasion of the XI. At the international PEN congress in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) he is one of the writers who split the Austrian PEN and overthrow the nationalist President Grete von Urbanitzky . In this context, there is a letter controversy between Jacob and Stefan Zweig , who officially does not want to join the opposition.
• 1934 Jacob gives the commemorative speech on January 23rd in Vienna for Jakob Wassermann , who died on January 1st, emphasizing the “protective forces of the Jews” . In Zurich, the book of short stories Treibhaus Süd America appears in the library of contemporary works, and Ernst Rowohlt allows himself to relocate the legend and triumph of coffee , although Jacob is on the National Socialists' prohibition index.
• 1935 Jacobs Jacqueline and the Japanese appeared in Japan ; because of this novel he is made an “Honorary Membership” of the University of Tokyo. The novel Der Grinzinger Taugenasst appears in the Amsterdam exile publisher Querido . In August and September he traveled to Sweden to research the unfinished biography of Bernadotte. The man who couldn't be second to complete. On December 19, Jacob and his 71-year-old mother were arrested in Vienna as part of a fraud case against half-sister Alice who was accused of trading in stolen and worthless American stocks.
• 1936 After seven months of pre-trial detention, Jacob is released from pre-trial detention on July 18, the mother not even until January 30, 1937.
• 1937 The musician biography Johann Strauss and the Nineteenth Century is published by Querido Verlag in Amsterdam .
• 1938 The fraud trial before the Vienna Regional Court begins on January 7th and ends on February 10th with Jacob's acquittal and the half-sister sentenced to two years in heavy prison. The mother received a year and a half in prison. Despite the acquittal, Jacob suffered a major loss of reputation because the media reported extensively and - at least in part - viciously throughout the entire process. On March 22nd, immediately after the “Anschluss” of Austria , the Gestapo arrested Jacob. On April 1, he was part of the first transport of “prisoners in protection” to the Dachau concentration camp in Vienna . On September 23, he and 1200 other prisoners were transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp . Two days earlier, on September 21, the half-sister Alice took her own life in Vienna.
• 1939 At the instigation of his fiancée, the actress Dora Angel , and an American uncle (Michael J. Barnes, brother of Jacob's mother), Jacob is released from Buchenwald on January 10th. On February 18, Dora and Heinrich Eduard Jacob get married in Vienna. On April 15th Jacob arrives in London via Belgium. From there, he and his wife made it to the United States of America on July 14th. Under the file number S-PP (II B) No. 7941/37, dated June 30, 1939, Jacob was expatriated from the German Reich on July 5, 1939. From October to December 1, Jacob received a scholarship from the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom at the Yaddo artists' colony in Saratoga Springs . Here he finishes his novel Estrangeiro , which he began in May .
• 1941 Together with his brother-in-law Ernst Angel , Jacob founds the Friends of the European Writers and Artists in America association on February 18 to help the intellectual refugees . Colleagues are Jules Romains , Yvan Goll , WH Auden , Ann Dunnagan , Raoul Auernheimer , Berthold Viertel and Carl Zuckmayer .
• 1942 Ernest Hemingway takes Jacob's tale Who called you here? in his anthology Men at war - The best war stories of all time. (New York). Jacob writes this story under his pseudonym Eric Jens Petersen.
• 1943 Jacob is represented with an article on Heinrich Heine in the anthology The Torch of Freedom (New York) edited by Emil Ludwig and Henry B. Kranz . Jacob lives mainly of support and the payment of contributions to the New York building . Mother Martha dies on February 5th in the Theresienstadt ghetto . Jacob himself never found out, despite many years of research through the Red Cross . On December 15, 1942, the mother was brought from Berlin on Transport I / 80 ( Berlin-Grunewald station ) to Theresienstadt; her last ubication there was house L 421.
• 1944 Jacobs first book publication as an emigrant in the USA: The cultural-historical nonfiction book Six Thousand Years of Bread. Its Holy and Unholy History is published by Doubleday, Doran, and Company , Garden City, N.Y.
• 1945 Jacob becomes a citizen of the United States of America on February 28. On December 6th, he became a co-initiator of the Progressive Literary Club in New York, which takes care of German literature in exile and commemorates deceased poets. Colleagues are u. a. Alfred Farau , Robert Gilbert , Mascha Kaléko , Hermann Kesten , Lothar Wallerstein and Friderike Maria Zweig .
• 1946 Heinrich Eduard Jacob gives the poignant introductory speech The Immortal Word on "The Murdered Poets" (for example Richard Beer-Hofmann , Bruno Frank .) On April 10th in New York on the occasion of the event The Literary Forum - a memorial event for German writers who died in exile , Georg Kaiser , René Schickele , Franz Werfel or Stefan Zweig ). Other participants: Ernst Deutsch , Eleonore von Mendelssohn u. a.
• 1949 New York's Schocken Verlag published Jacobs' biography about The World of Emma Lazarus , which prompted the American politician Jacob K. Javits to address the United States House of Representatives about Jacob and his important work.
• In 1950 in New York, Rinehart & Company published Jacobs' biography on Joseph Haydn . In the New York Times Book Review of December 31st, Jacobs' essay Writing appears in Germany Today , which causes considerable sensation beyond the USA.
• 1951 In Frankfurt am Main, Heinrich Scheffler Verlag published the novel Estrangeiro , Jacob's first book publication in Germany after the Second World War.
• 1952 Heinrich Eduard Jacobs biography about Joseph Haydn appears with a foreword by Thomas Mann in German in Hamburg by Christian Wegner Verlag .
• 1953 return to Europe; on June 10th Jacob arrives with his wife Dora in Le Havre, France . They set foot on German soil for the first time on June 16. After that, they mainly stay in Hamburg, Munich, Zurich and London. Dispute with Heinrich Böll in Munich.
• 1954 Rowohlt publishes Jacobs Six Thousand Years of Bread .
• 1955 in Ulm founded Willy Eiselen , inspired by Jacobs bread book , the first and now world's largest museum of bread .
• 1956 In Frankfurt am Main, the Heinrich Scheffler Verlag and the Gutenberg Book Guild published Jacobs' biography about Mozart .
• 1958 The daughter of Dora Jacob's first marriage with the Viennese writer Otto Soyka , Hedy Soyka-Parker (born August 21, 1914 in Vienna), committed suicide on March 30th in Barnstable (USA). Heinrich Eduard Jacob and his wife find it difficult to cope with this suicide.
• 1959 Jacob published his last work, the musician biography Felix Mendelssohn und seine Zeit , in Frankfurt am Main, with S. Fischer Verlag . The criticism immediately grasped that it was a “reparation to someone buried” and at the same time a settlement with Mendelssohn's antipode Richard Wagner . After 1959 Jacob left the forces. Only a few essays about composers or fellow writers followed. He was no longer able to cope with the demands of great works.
• March 1963 At the beginning of March, Hannah Arendt reads the first chapter of her report Eichmann in Jerusalem in Cologne (subtitle: The Banality of Evil ). The next day there is a debate on the subject of the nation state and democracy on the Kölner Rundfunk (WDR) , in which Jacob also takes part. In a letter dated March 8, 1963, Arendt wrote to her husband Heinrich Blücher about this : "At the public lecture (which you later send - a dispute with Eugen Kogon , who, by the way, was very good, but quite unreliable) was - well, Heinrich Eduard Jacob of all people. And of course unavoidable, since he had taken a seat directly behind me, where nobody could actually sit. He spoke in the discussion as the representative of Buchenwald and Dachau or something like that - very embarrassing, very obnoxious Because you are in a situation there in which you absolutely have to show solidarity. I used that as an excuse to tell the German government my opinion. If they really broadcast that, I can only say cheers and meals. " Arendt's statement affects Jacob less; Rather, it must be understood in the context of its much-criticized book.
• September 1963 Jacob announced his suicide in writing to his wife on September 10th. Why this does not happen is unknown. The letter is only found by Dora Jacob in 1965. She never speaks to her husband about it.
• 1967 Restless and abandoned, moving from hotel to guesthouse with his wife Dora, Heinrich Eduard Jacob dies of heart failure on September 25th in Salzburg, where his body is cremated. The urn Jacobs was not buried until 1984 in the Jewish cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, after the urn of his widow, Dora Jacob , who died on February 26, 1984 , was buried there in March 1984.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Eduard Jacob in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heinrich Eduard Jacob  in the German Digital Library
• Dissertation on Heinrich Eduard Jacob by Anja Clarenbach; see. above "Literature" (pdf) (1.69 MB)
• Brief description of Jan Brandt about Heinrich Eduard Jacob “The Biographer of Things” (pdf) , p. 6., accessed on January 10, 2014.
• Estate of Heinrich Eduard Jacob in the German Literature Archive, Marbach aN
• Heinrich Eduard Jacob in the Central Directory of Digitized Prints (zvdd)
• The German Library, Frankfurt aM: magazines and newspapers of the German-speaking exile from 1933–1945
• Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main: memorial plaques, book burning; with Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For contemporary reception, see the detailed review by Kurt Münzer from the Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung from 1930: Archivlink ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon. 5th edition, Herbig Verlag, 2006, p. 431. ISBN 3-7766-2478-7