Hermann Adler (writer)

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Hermann Adler (born October 2, 1911 in Diószeg , Austria-Hungary ; died February 18, 2001 in Basel ) was a German Jewish writer and publicist.

Life

Hermann Adler was born not far from Pressburg in a place with a considerable German minority. He attended the school in Nuremberg and the Jewish teachers' seminars in Würzburg and Breslau and worked at a school for the difficult to educate in Lower Silesia . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he fled to Czechoslovakia in 1934 , to Poland in 1939 , and in 1940 to Lithuania via Russian-occupied Lemberg .

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was interned in the Vilna ghetto . He and his wife Anita Distler lived in hiding for several months in the apartment of Sergeant Anton Schmid , who came from Vienna , in order to avoid the mass murder of Jews. Schmid was executed in 1942 for helping Jews. The Israeli film director Nathan Jariv shot the ZDF television film Feldwebel Schmid in 1967 based on the script by Hermann Adler .

Adler experienced the successive murder of the ghetto population in Vilnius and was able to flee to Warsaw in 1943, where he took part in the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto . He was captured and taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where he was a victim of human experiments by concentration camp doctors . Since his liberation in 1945, Adler lived and worked as a freelance writer in Switzerland and lived in Basel. He wrote radio plays and television programs.

The German-Iranian literary scholar Schirin Nowrousian and the Lithuanian translator Austeja Merkeviciute are committed to the discovery of Adler's works in Lithuania and to a translation of selected works into Lithuanian.

In spring 2017, Schirin Nowrousian published an essay on Hermann Adler in the American journal Full Bleed , which is published by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. At the end of the text there are also three poems by Hermann Adler in English. As far as can be seen, these are the first translations of Adler's texts into English. The translations are also by Schirin Nowrousian.

The journalist Jake Romm , who wrote for the American Jewish newspaper Forward , became aware of Hermann Adler through the article by Schirin Nowrousian . He used Schirin Nowrousian's essay to report on Hermann Adler in June 2017 in Forward .

Nowrousian graduated from Tallinn University in June 2015, Warsaw University in September 2015 and Vilnius University in March 2016. a. Hermann Adler gives a lecture. There is also an entry on her research on Hermann Adler on the author's website.

Works (selection)

  • Songs from the city of death. Zurich, New York 1945.
  • Images according to the book of promise. Verlag der Jüdischen Rundschau Maccabi, Basel 1950.
  • Ballads of the crucified, the risen, the despised. Zurich, Oprecht publishing house 1946.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Israelitische Lehrerbildungsanstalt Würzburg , at Alemannia Judaica .
  2. ↑ Feldwebel Schmid ( Memento of the original of March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hrb.at
  3. ^ Felix Ackermann: The seeds on the graves: Hermann Adler, a German poet in the Vilna ghetto. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 21, 2018, p. 14.
  4. ^ Songs from the City of Death, Poems by Hermann Adler. Retrieved February 11, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ Jake Romm June 15, 2017 wikimedia: The Forgotten Holocaust Poetry Of Hermann Adler. Retrieved February 11, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ pure.au.dk (PDF), neofilologia.wn.uw.edu.pl (PDF), if.vu.lt (PDF).
  7. ^ Research on Hermann Adler. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Diosek
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2001
Place of death Basel