Heinz Politzer
Heinz Politzer (born December 31, 1910 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 31, 1978 in Berkeley / Cal. ) Was an Austrian -US writer and literary scholar.
Life
Heinz Politzer studied German and English in Vienna and Prague . In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine (from 1941 in Jerusalem ). From 1947 he lived in the USA, which he took citizenship in 1952. There Politzer was initially a professor at Oberlin College in Ohio (1952-1960), then between 1960 and 1978 professor of German language and literature at the University of California, Berkeley .
As a writer he created poems, short stories, novels and critics. As a literary scholar he proved himself to be an expert on Franz Kafka , made Kafka known in the United States , arranged for the publication of the first complete edition of Kafka's works in the United States and was in close contact with Max Brod .
Among the honors he has been given is the invitation to give the festive opening speech from Musikerlöste Demonie at the Salzburg Festival in 1976. In 1974 he was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Humanities .
Heinz Politzer's urn is immured in a wall at the Petersfriedhof in Salzburg . At the time of his death, he left behind his wife Jane Hinman Horner Politzer and four sons together: Mike, Dave, Steve and Eric.
Publications (selection)
- Window in front of the firmament. Poems, 1937
- Ed .: The golden alley. Jewish sagas and legends. Selection from the Sippurim , revised. Pictures Friedrich Feigl. Löwit, Vienna and Jerusalem 1937
- Poems: Jerusalem . 1941
- Franz Kafka . 1962
- Franz Grillparzer or The Abyssal Biedermeier (1967)
- The Silence of the Sirens (1968)
- Ed .: Johannes Urzidil : Tomorrow I'm going home. Bohemian tales . Afterword Politzer
- Oedipus . 1974
- Freud and the tragic. 2003
literature
- Wilhelm Hemecker : Politzer, Heinz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 600 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm W. Hemecker: '... as a kind of will'. Heinz Politzer's Freud project . In: Heinz Politzer: Freud and the tragic . Edited by Wilhelm W. Hemecker. Edition Gutenberg, Vienna 2003, pp. 9–23.
- Politzer, Heinz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 109-118.
- Politzer, Heinz , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 915
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Politzer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Heinz Politzer in the German Digital Library
- Heinz Politzer in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- Lecture by Heinz Politzer in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
- Heinz Politzer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Canon. German literature. Essays. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M./Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-458-06830-9 , p. 88. (Vol. 6, companion volume The Essays and their Authors. )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Politzer, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1978 |
| Place of death | Berkeley, California |