Heinrich Nowak

Heinrich Nowak (born January 26, 1890 in Vienna , † 1955 in Zurich ) was a journalist and expressionist writer . He worked for various magazines, wrote for Herwarth Walden's Der Sturm , Der Ruf and others.

He frequented the Viennese Expressionist circle and was acquainted with Egon Schiele . As the husband of Cäcilie Lvovsky , he is said to have been friends with Karl Kraus . In 1913 his first collection of poems, Die tragische Gebärde, was published by Saturn Verlag in Heidelberg. In 1939 he emigrated to Switzerland.

Works

• The tragic gesture. Poem. With five cuts by Herbert Grossberger . Heidelberg: Saturn 1913. Reprint: Nendeln / Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint 1973. (= Library of Expressionism.)
• The sun epidemic. Vienna. Prague and Leipzig: Strache 1920. (= The story.)
• The sun epidemic. The entire work (1912-1920). Edited and with an afterword by Wilfried Ihrig and Ulrich Janetzki . Vienna and Berlin: Medusa 1984. ISBN 978-3-85446-105-0 .

literature

• Joan Annabel Radius: Heinrich Nowak. A Forgotten Expressionist. Unpublished MA thesis. Stanford: Stanford University 1967.
• Wilfried Ihrig: Heinrich Nowak in exile in Zurich. In: WI, Modern Austrian Literature. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7502-0664-9 , pp. 71–80.

Web link

• Works by and about Heinrich Nowak at Open Library