Heinrich Fischer (Author)

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Heinrich Fischer (born August 22, 1896 in Karlsbad , † March 16, 1974 in Munich ) was a German writer, director, dramaturge and translator.

Life

Heinrich Fischer was chief dramaturge at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1926 to 1928 and director and deputy dramaturge at the Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm from 1928 to 1931 . In 1931 he returned to Munich.

Heinrich Fischer was the author of the anthology "The Embassy" published by EA Rheinhardt in 1920, a collection of expressionist poems from Austria, and he worked for the magazine " Die Aktion ".

Fischer was friends with the Austrian writer Karl Kraus from 1922 . After his death in 1936, he became the administrator of Kraus's estate according to the will of Kraus, together with Karl Járay, Oskar Samek and Philipp Berger . He also gained fame as a reciter of the works of Kraus and could also be heard as such on records.

Under Fischer's direction, on January 15, 1930 - on a Wednesday at midnight - the epilogue of the last days of mankind , “The Last Night”, was performed in Berlin on the experimental stage of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . Directed by Leo Reuss , the music was by Hanns Eisler . Actors included Paul Morgan and Theo Lingen .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Fischer, who was of Jewish descent, emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1933 and from there to England in 1939, where he worked as an editor for the BBC. In 1956 Fischer returned to Germany. In the early 1960s, Heinrich Fischer presented the children's program Sport-Spiel-Tension .

As a literary translator, Fischer u. a. Father Brown stories into German. He also read his German version of Der Hammer Gottes for the record.

Honors

See also

Translations

  • Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion. Jesuit and martyr . Munich: Kösel 1954
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton: The Hammer of God. Munich: Kösel 1959.

Fonts (selection)

  • Dreams of life (poems). Bircher, Leipzig 1923.
  • Karl Kraus and the youth (speech), Lanyi, Vienna 1934.

literature

  • Fischer, Heinrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 7: Feis – Frey. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-22687-X , pp. 119-128.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Heinrich Fischer on August 22, 1971. In: News from the Kösel-Verlag (special issue), Munich: Kösel 1971.
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio-bibliography , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Kraus: Letters to Sidonie Nádherný from Borutin . 1913-1936 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, Volume 2, p. 513, ISBN 978-3-89244-934-8 . ( Limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ^ Rheinhardt (ed.): The message. Ed. Strache. Vienna, Prague. Leipzig 1920, pp. 75 ff. And 316
  3. ↑ Friends and companions on karl-kraus.net
  4. ↑ Die Fackel , No. 827–833, p. 117 February 1930 and 834–837, p. 54 ff, May 1930
  5. ^ The penultimate days . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1964, pp. 76 ( Online - June 24, 1964 ).
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, friend of Karl Krauss
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1974
Place of death Munich