Hermann Blumenthal (writer)

Hermann Blumenthal (originally Ber Hersch ) (born October 28, 1880 in Bolechów , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; deported around 1942 , declared dead in 1959) was an Austrian writer , editor , journalist , translator and theater critic .

Life

Blumenthal attended secondary school in Lemberg from 1891 to 1893 . He first worked for a few years as a commercial employee in a cloth company. He came to Vienna as a wholesaler and became a secretary in a bank. He developed literary activity from 1901 and often dealt thematically with Galician Judaism. He also lived temporarily in Berlin , where he was dramaturge at the Figaro Theater in 1907. From 1907 to 1912 Blumenthal was also an editor for the magazine “Der Morgen”, and he also worked as a translator. After 1930 he was hardly active as a journalist, around 1942 he was deported and in 1959 declared dead by the Vienna community at the instigation of the Vienna Jewish Community .

Appreciation

Kenneth H. Ober mentions in his work on the genesis of the ghetto history as a genre that Blumenthal was initially a supporter of Reform Judaism, but later represented Zionist views.

Ingrid Spörk attributes Blumenthal to a third generation of ghetto poets who undertook a revaluation of Eastern Jewry.

Works

• The path of youth , I childhood days, II boyhood, III youth, 1907–1910
• Princess Sabbath , narrative, 1908
• A trip to Palestine , sketches, 1911
• Street pictures , sketches, 1911
• The Road to Wealth , novel, 1913
• Galicia, the Wall in the East , War Tales, 1915
• The people of the ghetto , with JE Poritzky, edited by A. Landsberger, 1916
• The Lord of the Carpathians , novel, 1917
• Polish Jewish Stories , 1919
• The Renegade , novel, 1923
• Gilgul. A novel from this and that world , 1923 (2nd edition 1925 under the title The Second Life )
• The best Jewish anecdotes. Pearls of Humor , 1924

literature

• Blumenthal, Hermann. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 201-205.
• German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century , Vol. 3, Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.) Et al., Zurich and Munich, De Gruyter 2002
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
• The ghetto stories of Hermann Schiff and Hermann Blumenthal , Mamiko Ikenaga, Düsseldorf: Dissertation 2000

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Blumenthal in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kenneth H. Ober, The Ghettogeschichte: Origin and Development of a Genus, Göttingen 2001, p. 96f .; ISBN 3-89244-480-3
2. ↑ Dagmar Lorenz / Ingrid Spörk (eds.), Concept Eastern Europe. The “East” as a construct of external and self-determination in German-language texts of the 19th and 20th centuries, Würzburg 2011, pp. 61–84