Hermann Sinsheimer

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Hermann Sinsheim (* 6. March 1883 in Freinsheim ; † 29. August 1950 in London ) was a German lawyer who as a journalist , theater critic and writer was known and as Jew in the time of National Socialism over Palestine after England was forced to flee. Freinsheim, the city of his birth, posthumously dedicated the Hermann Sinsheimer Prize and the Hermann Sinsheimer plaque to him.

His eldest brother Ludwig Sinsheimer was persecuted as a so-called enemy of the state and, like his sister Eugenie, became a victim of the Holocaust .

family

Sinsheimer came from a Jewish family whose father's side goes back to the town of Sinsheim in Kraichgau in northern Baden . His parents Samuel († 1928) and Fanny Sinsheimer († February 8, 1885) initially lived in Mannheim . In 1874 they moved to the Vorderpfalz to live in the former village of Freinsheim, 20 kilometers west of Mannheim , from which their mother came.

Hermann Sinsheimer was the youngest child from the father's first marriage, his siblings were Ludwig (1873–1942), Karl (1875–1953), Eugenie Ida (* October 12, 1879, † September 24, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) and August (1880-1911). Shortly before Hermann Sinsheimer's second birthday, his mother died. The father and his second wife Mina Reuter († 1917) had their daughter Emma (1888–1963).

Hermann Sinsheimer's first wife was called Anna geb. Kessler. The marriage was concluded in 1930 and divorced in 1941. His second wife, whom he married in 1947, was the British Christobel Fowler (1897–1990).

During the time of National Socialism, the oldest brother Ludwig was imprisoned in early 1934 for "insidious attacks against the government of the national uprising" because he had described the beginning of the persecution of Jews in letters to foreign newspapers , and was only released from prison at the end of 1935. In 1942 he and his sister Eugenie, who had his surname after marrying Moritz Reuter and who lived in Heilbronn , died from the Holocaust.

Life

education

Hermann Sinsheim visited in Bad Durkheim , the Latin school , he passed the Abitur at that time Humanities College in Neustadt an der Haardt from. After his military service in Munich , to which he was drafted in 1902, he studied as his brother Ludwig law , in Würzburg , Berlin and Vienna . In 1910 he settled in Ludwigshafen as a lawyer .

Journalist and man of letters

As the legal profession “attracted him little or not at all for the time being”, Sinsheimer became a theater critic for the Neue Badische Landeszeitung in Mannheim. In 1916 he moved to Munich and was director of the Münchner Kammerspiele for two years ; he then wrote theater and literary reviews for the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . On July 21, 1924, his name appeared for the first time in the imprint of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus ("Redaktion Hermann Sinsheimer"), on July 1, 1929 for the last time. Sinsheimer had previously fallen out with the publishers.

From 1930 he worked as an editor for the Berliner Tageblatt in Berlin , mainly for the ULK supplement. In May 1932, Theodor Wolff sent Sinsheimer to Vienna as a foreign correspondent for a short time . After Alfred Kerr's escape on February 14, 1933, Sinsheimer was his successor. But only for a very short time, because on January 1, 1934, the "editors' law" came into force, which forbade Jewish editors to work as editors. They weren't allowed to go to the theater either. He then wrote for Jewish newspapers in Berlin. In 1938 he went to Palestine for two months. He arrived in London on June 6th.

While Sinsheimer was working there for a publishing house, he met his second wife Christobel, who later looked after his literary estate. In 1948 he became a British citizen . In his most famous work, the autobiography Lived in Paradise. Memories and encounters is how he describes his way from the Palatinate village to the city, from school to work as well as characters and experiences from his life. He never saw his hometown Freinsheim again, although he still visited Germany a few times after the Second World War .

As early as 1953, the Nazi propagandist Gerhard N. Pallmann published an abbreviated and politically manipulated version of the autobiography under the title Lived in Paradise . It was not until 2013 that the full text was published as the first volume of a new three-volume work edition , taking into account the original manuscripts .

Sinsheimer's novel The Three Children won the 1917 Women's Association Prize to honor German poets .

souvenir

In honor of Sinsheimer, the city of Freinsheim has been awarding the Hermann Sinsheimer Prize for literature and journalism in uneven years since 1983, the year of the 100th birthday . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, in 2000 the city also donated the Hermann Sinsheimer plaque for services to Palatinate literature; the badge is awarded in even years. The birthplace of the poet in the grove Torstraße 6 counts as Hermann-Sinsheim house to the cultural monuments of the city, the primary school is also named after Hermann Sinsheim.

Works (selection)

  • The three children . Novel. 1917 (Kessinger Publishing, reprint 2010).
  • Peter Wildanger's son . Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1919.
  • Maria Nunnez . Philo Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Rabbi, golem and emperor . Philo Verlag, Berlin 1935 (Philo-Bücherei, Volume 1).
  • Al Rondo . Limes Verlag, 1949.
  • Sparrow in the cherries . Daniel Meininger Verlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1950.
  • Gerhard Pallmann (Ed.): Lived in Paradise . Memories and encounters. Pflaum Verlag, 1953 (rudimentary version).
  • Shylock . The story of a character. Ner Tamid Verlag, Munich 1960.
  • Christobel Sinsheimer (Ed.): Sparrow in the cherries . 1963 (new edition).
  • Josef Kaiser (Ed.): The world of my village . Freinsheim stories and Palatinate memories. Pro Message publishing house, Ludwigshafen (Rhein) 2009, ISBN 978-3-934845-48-0 .
  • Hermann and Christobel Sinsheimer; edit by Hans-Helmut Görtz, Gabriele Giersberg and Erik Giersberg: Letters from London to the Palatinate . Foundation for the Promotion of Palatine Historical Research, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2012, ISBN 978-3-942189-12-5 .
  • Lived in paradise . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942476-55-3 .
  • Deborah Vietor-Engländer and Jonathan Skolnik (eds.): Shylock and other writings on Jewish topics . Quintus-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945256-10-7 . 
   Hrsg. Erik und Gabriele Giersberg mit einem Vorwort von Deborah Vietor-Engländer
   Was ich lebte, was ich sah. Briefe und Theaterkritiken. Band 3 der Werkausgabe
   Quintus-Verlag Berlin
   ISBN 978-3-947215-56-0
   25 Euro erschienen im August 2020

literature

  • Oliver Bentz: The Palatinate always in the heart . In: Literarischer Verein der Pfalz (ed.): New Literary Palatinate . No. 41/42, 2010, p. 43 f .
  • Barbara Hartlage-Laufenberg: Palatine and lawyer - Jew and man of letters: Hermann Sinsheimer . In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) . 1999, p. 1941-1943 .
  • Barbara Hartlage-Laufenberg:  Sinsheimer, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 469 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Barbara Hartlage-Laufenberg: Hermann Sinsheimer. Lively Palatine, lawyer and versatile writer . Ed .: Centrum Judaicum (=  Jewish miniatures . Volume 120 ). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-56-1 .
  • Jonathan Skolnik: Dissimilation and the Historical Novel: Herman Sinsheimer's Maria Nunnez . In: Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute . tape 43 , 1998, pp. 225-240 (English).
  • Deborah Vietor-Engländer : Hermann Sinsheimer's German-Jewish fate . In: Kerstin Schoor (ed.): Between racial hatred and the search for identity. German-Jewish literary culture in National Socialist Germany . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0648-6 , p. 285-303 .
  • Gert Weber , Rolf Paulus (Ed.): Writer and theater critic between home and exile - Sinsheimer, Hermann . Selection from the complete works. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau (Pfalz) 1986, ISBN 3-87629-099-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Josef Kaiser: "A splendid person" . In: Die Rheinpfalz , complete edition . Ludwigshafen November 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Dagmar Gilcher: The world of Hermann Sinsheimer . In: Die Rheinpfalz , complete edition . Ludwigshafen October 13, 2012.
  3. ^ History and fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. Forum genealogy forms , accessed on October 13, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Oliver Bentz: The Palatinate always in the heart . 2010, p. 43 f .
  5. ^ Anja Clarenbach: The writer and journalist Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889-1967). (PDF; 1.7 MB) Dissertation University of Hamburg, 2003, p. 73 , accessed on May 15, 2016 .
  6. ^ Gerhard N. Pallmann (Ed.): Lived in Paradise , Pflaum Publishing House, Munich 1953
  7. ^ Foreword by Deborah Vietor-Engländer and editorial note by Nadine Englhart in: Hermann Sinsheimer. Lived in paradise , Berlin 2013
  8. ↑ Wilhelm Schäfer : Small chest . Munich 1941, p. 211-216 .
  9. ↑ Hermann Sinsheimer House. City of Freinsheim, accessed on July 26, 2014 .
  10. ^ Schools in Freinsheim. City of Freinsheim, accessed on July 26, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Sinsheimer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jurist of the Jewish faith tradition, journalist, theater critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Freinsheim (Germany)
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1950
Place of death London