Heinrich Kurtzig

Heinrich Kurtzig , pseudonym Bogumil Curtius (born May 2, 1865 in Inowrocław , Prussia ; died June 17, 1946 in Casablanca , French Morocco ), was a German writer.

Life

Heinrich Kurtzig - maternal grandfather of the literary scholar Stéphane Mosès - took over the management of a factory in Inowrocław, which has been called Hohensalza since 1904, after completing his commercial training. In 1905 he moved to Berlin, where he founded a publishing bookstore in 1907. Under the pseudonym Bogumil Curtius he belonged to the Breslau poetry school . At first he emulated the humorist Julius Stettenheim . In his later works, Kurtzig describes the world of the Jews in the province of Posen , where he grew up. In particular, he describes the life of his father Aron Kurtzig, who as an immigrant in the province of Kujawia managed to build an existence that was largely spared from anti-Semitism.

Kurtzig's book Dorfjuden was one of the books in 1933 that were destroyed by the National Socialists when they were burned . In spite of this, Kurtzig published a humorous adaptation of Homer's Odyssey in Leipzig's Gustav Engel Verlag, where his previous books had also appeared, in 1934. In 1939 Kurtzig emigrated from Germany and moved to Morocco with his daughter's family .

Works

Fidele country party. Under the above Published under pseudonym, 1886.
Our hero. Before the Marne - in action on September 9, 1914. Poem. 1914.
East German Judaism. Tradition of a family. Foreword by Erdmann Graeser . Eulitz, Stolp 1927.
Village Jews. Serious and cheerful from Eastern people. Poppelauer, Berlin 1928. New edition: Westhafen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-942836-11-1 .
Businessman Frank. Story of a life. Engel, Leipzig 1929.
On the border. Cultural history narrative. Engel, Leipzig 1931.
Love and wanderings after Homer's Odyssey . Something cheerful again . Preface by Thassilo von Scheffer . Engel, Leipzig 1934 a. Loewe, Berlin 1937.

literature

Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008 ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , pp. 155–157.
Werner Treß (Hrsg.): Burned books 1933. With fire against the freedom of the spirit. In: Series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education . 1003. BpB, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8389-0003-2 ; Heinrich Kurtzig: pp. 80–89, with an original excerpt from village Jews. Serious and cheerful from Eastern people. M. Poppelauer, [Berlin] 1928, pp. 71-88
Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 675

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Kurtzig in the catalog of the German National Library
Heinrich Kurtzig's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ An extensive anthology of 57 original texts by affected authors, with short biographies. A complete list of all the authors affected by the book burning is attached, alphabetically continuously listed

personal data
SURNAME	Kurtzig, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Curtius, Bogumil (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Inowrocław
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1946
Place of death	Casablanca

[1] An extensive anthology of 57 original texts by affected authors, with short biographies. A complete list of all the authors affected by the book burning is attached, alphabetically continuously listed