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Henry Kreisel O.C. (born June 5, 1922 in Vienna , Austria ; died April 22, 1991 in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada ) was a Canadian literary scholar , university professor and writer of Austrian origin.

family

Henry Kreisel was the first son of David Leo Kreisel (1891–1969) and his wife Helene, nee Schreier (1893–1971). He had a younger brother, Kurt Kreisel-Kilstock (* 1924). Henry Kreisel and the later curator Esther, née Lazerson (* 1925), married on June 22, 1947 and had a son, Philip Kreisel (* 1956).

Career

As a 15-year-old student, Kreisel published a novel he wrote in his native Vienna, where he attended school.

After the occupation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht in 1938, his parents were arrested in an illegal attempt to leave the Nazi state . His father was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp , his mother in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . In the same year the family was allowed to leave for England. Henry Kreisel emigrated to England on July 22, 1938, his brother Kurt and his father followed in January and August 1939, respectively. Until 1940, Henry Kreisel found employment in a clothing factory.

After the start of the Second World War , 17-year-old Henry Kreisel was interned as an enemy alien on May 16, 1940 and transferred from England to an internment camp in New Brunswick , Canada. Kreisel spent a total of eighteen months in these internment camps. There he wrote a diary which he later published and decided that English would be the language in which he wanted to express himself as a writer in the future. Joseph Conrad was regarded as his literary inspiration . He was happy to have been released from work in the factory by the internment and profited from the discussions with the many intellectuals in the internment camp. These were his university at that time.

The German-American physician, biochemist and pharmacist Bruno Mendel , who had already emigrated from England to Canada with his family in 1938, took over the guarantee for Kreisel and four other Jewish internees, including Josef Eisinger and Walter Kohn , after mediation by the Jewish community , and thus obtained im November 1941 their release. For this reason, Kreisel later dedicated the book The Rich Man to him and his family .

First, he attended the Harbord Collegiate Institute in Toronto to improve his English skills and gain university entrance qualification. With a scholarship that he received on the basis of his diary written in the internment camp, Kreisel studied English literature at the University of Toronto from 1942 , where he won a total of 11 other scholarships within four years. At the same time he did his military service in the Canadian Army in the Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) in 1945/46.

In 1945 he was naturalized and received Canadian citizenship. In 1946 he acquired the academic title of a Bachelor of Arts (BA), won the Reuben Wells Leonard Fellowship for graduates in the same year and acquired the academic title of a Master of Arts (MA) in 1947 on the subject of Aspects of modern realistic fiction in American . As a lecturer in English, he taught from autumn 1947 to 1952 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton . In 1950 he became an assistant professor and an associate professor in 1952.

He received in 1952 a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada and went to England, where he in 1954 at the University of London with a dissertation on the topic The Problem of Exile and Alienation in Modern Literature to the Ph.D. PhD . In 1957 he returned to the University of Alberta , where he was appointed full professor of English in 1959.

From 1961 to 1967 he held the position of head of the English department. He then became Senior Associate Dean ( Dean ) of Graduate Studies. In 1969/70 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty and in the spring of 1970 he was appointed Academic Vice President of the University of Alberta , a position he held for five years.

In 1975 he was appointed University Professor and held the chair of English. In 1975/76 he was invited as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge . After his return in the fall of 1976, he taught at the University of Alberta in the Department of Comparative Literature ( Comparative Literature ) and the Department of Drama.

In 1987 he retired ; in the following year appointed Officer of the Order of Canada by awarding the order .

Kreisel published two novels, The Rich Man (1947) and The Betrayal (1964), the latter was also broadcast as a televised drama by CBC in 1965 .

He died at the age of 68 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Edmonton.

Publications (excerpt)

  • Aspects of modern realistic fiction in American . Master's thesis for MA, University of Toronto 1947 OCLC 976665569
  • The Rich Man - A Novel . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1948 OCLC 2667374 ; New edition: The Rich Man . Red Deer Press, Calgary 2006, ISBN 978-0-8899-5339-0
  • The Problem of Exile and Alienation in Modern Literature . Dissertation to Ph. D., London 1954 OCLC 184740375
  • Henry Kreisel et. al .: Klanak Islands - A Collection of Short Stories . Klanak Press, Vancouver 1959 OCLC 472967103
  • Recent Criticism of the Novel . In: University of Toronto Quarterly , Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 246-250 (1962)
  • The Betrayal . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1964 OCLC 723889771
  • The Prairie - A State of Mind . Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa 1969 OCLC 65762201
  • Diary of an Internment . In: White Pelican , Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1974, Edmonton, pp. 4-40 OCLC 896682548
  • The Almost Meeting and Other Stories . NeWest, Edmonton 1981; New edition: The Almost Meeting and other stories . NeWest Press, Edmonton 2004, ISBN 978-1-8963-0090-0
  • with Michael S. Batts: A Report Regarding the Establishment of a National Institute for Heritage Languages ​​(Western Canada) ed. Secretary of State of Canada. Edmonton / Vancouver 1987 OCLC 796994071
  • with Michael S. Batts: Rapport des conseillers sur la création d'un Institut national des langues ancestrales (Ouest du Canada) . Edited by Secrétariat d'État du Canada. Edmonton / Vancouver 1987 OCLC 796994072

literature

  • Shirley Neuman (Ed.): Another Country - Writings by and about Henry Kreisel . NeWest Press, Edmonton 1985, ISBN 0-9203-1685-9
  • John M. Spalek (ed.): German-language literature in exile since 1933 , Vol. 4 bibliographies - writers, publishers and literary critics in the United States , part 2 H-M . Francke, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-907820-47-9 , pp. 993-1001
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 p. 662
  • Andreas Wittbrodt: Multilingual Jewish exile literature, authors from the German-speaking area. Problem outline and selection bibliography . Shaker, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-9336-7 pp. 98 f., 103 f., P. 227 f.
  • Carolyn D. Redl-Hlus: The Theme of Alienation in Henry Kreisel's Fiction and Criticism . MA, Alberta , 1983
  • Barbara Newborn: Across a broken globe - The fiction of Henry Kreisel . Master's Thesis, McGill University , 1984
  • Rachel Feldhay Brenner: Henry Kreisel - European Experience of Canadian Reality - A State of Mind . In: World Literature Written in English , 28 (1988), pp. 269-287
  • Jenny Stringer (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996, ISBN 978-0-1921-2271-1
  • William Toye and Eugene Benson (Eds.): The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997. ISBN 978-0-1954-1167-6
  • Eugen Banauch (Ed.): Fluid Exile - Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940 - 2006 (= Anglistische Forschungen, 395). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009, p. 42 f.

Memberships and functions

  • Member of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
  • 1959/60: President of the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta
  • 1962/63: President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
  • 1963–1965: Chairman of the Canada Council Post-graduate Scholarships Committee for English Literature
  • 1966–1969: Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta
  • 1966–1969: Member of the Governor-General's Award Jury for Literature
  • 1978–1980: Vice President of the Edmonton Chamber Music Society
  • 1980–1983: President of the Edmonton Chamber Music Society
  • 1987: Adviser to the Canadian Secretary of State for Multiculturalism

Awards and honors

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Herbert A. Strauss, Werner Röder, Hannah Caplan, Egon Radvany, Horst Möller, Dieter Marc Schneider (Eds.): The Arts, Sciences, and Literature . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-598-10089-5 , p. 662
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Thomas E. Tausky: Henry Kreisel . In: The Canadian Enycyclopdia , at: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Henry Kreisel , on: umanitoba.ca
  4. ^ Alberta 150: The heart surgeon, the Flames owner and the cook . In: Calgary Herald , June 21, 2017 at: calgaryherald.com
  5. ^ Henry Kreisel: Diary of an Internment . In: White Pelican , Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1974, Edmonton, pp. 4-40 OCLC 896682548
  6. ^ Ernest Robert Zimmermann: The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior - A History of Canadian Internment Camp R , ed. v. Michel S. Beaulieu and David K. Ratz. The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2015, ISBN 978-0-88864-673-6 , p. 7
  7. ↑ a b c Kreisel, Henry (1922–1991) . In: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains , on: unl.edu
  8. ↑ Shirley Neuman (Ed.): Another Country - Writings by and about Henry Kreisel . NeWest Press, Edmonton 1985, ISBN 0-9203-1685-9 , pp. 13-17
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Henry Kreisel , on: athabascau.ca
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Josef Eisinger: Escape and Refuge - memories of an eventful youth (PDF file; 11.9 megabytes). Edited by Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-901142-74-1 , pp. 118–152, 239
  11. ^ How Canada Lost its Nobel prize . In: Ottawa Citizen , October 16, 1998
  12. ↑ Annette Puckhaber: A privilege for the few - The German migration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism (PDF file, 2.5 MB). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2002, p. 45 (144)
  13. ↑ a b Kreisel, Henry . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , on: encyclopedia.com
  14. ^ Kreisel remembered as inspiring lecturer . In: Edmonton Journal , April 24, 1991
  15. ^ Henry Kreisel , on: edmontonjewishcemetery.ca
personal data
SURNAME Roundabout, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian English scholar, university professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1991
Place of death Edmonton