Hermann Ungar

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Hermann Ungar
Memorial plaque on Hungary's birthplace in Boskowitz

Hermann Ungar (born April 20, 1893 in Boskowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died October 28, 1929 in Prague ) was a Moravian- Jewish writer .

Life

Ungar was born in Boskowitz, Moravia, in 1893 as the son of the brandy manufacturer and mayor Emil Ungar and his wife Jeannette, nee. Kohn, born. From 1911 he studied oriental studies in Berlin , then law in Munich and Prague . In 1913 he passed the state law examination in Prague and received his doctorate in 1918.

From 1914 to 1916 he was a soldier in World War I and was seriously injured in the war. He then worked as a lawyer and theater director . In 1922 he became a Legation Councilor at the Czechoslovak Embassy in Berlin, and later Ministerial Commissioner in the Foreign Ministry in Prague.

Ungar was considered a loner in the Prague circle around Franz Kafka , Ernst Weiß and Max Brod .

Hermann Ungar died at the age of thirty-six from a ruptured appendix that was treated too late in a Prague hospital. Ungar had two sons. His sister was able to emigrate to Tel Aviv , his brother and his parents were murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 .

Quote

  • “Ungar ... created people from his most secretive atmosphere. It was cruel and difficult. You didn't want that, you didn't forgive him. He was a poet. ” ( Rudolf Kayser in an obituary in the Neue Rundschau 1929.)

Works

The mutilated, original edition, Rowohlt, Berlin 1923
  • Boys and Murderers , 1921 (Two short stories, enthusiastically discussed by Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig , online  - Internet Archive )
  • The Mutilated , 1922 (novel).
  • The Class , 1927 (novel)
    • The class , with notes and an afterword by Ulrich Weinzierl , Manesse, Zurich 2012
  • Der Rote General , 1928 (play, revolutionary play about Leon Trotsky and Walther Rathenau ; successfully performed in Berlin in 1928 with Fritz Kortner in the title role)
  • Colbert's Journey , 1930 (stories and sketches, posthumously)
  • Die Gartenlaube , 1930 (comedy, performed posthumously in Berlin in 1930)
  • The bank clerk and other forgotten prose . Edited by Dieter Sudhoff . Igel, Paderborn 1989
  • All works . Edited by Dieter Sudhoff. 3 vols. Igel, Oldenburg 2001–2002.
    • Vol. 1: Novels
    • Vol. 2: Stories
    • Vol. 3: Poems, dramas, feature pages, letters

literature

  • Thomas Diecks:  Ungar, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , pp. 627 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Carina Lehnen: Cripples, murderers and psychopaths: on Hermann Ungar's novel “The Mutilated”. Igel, Paderborn 1990, ISBN 3-927104-09-4 .
  • Manfred Linke: Hermann Ungar. An introduction to his work and a selection. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1971.
  • Dieter Sudhoff: Hermann Ungar. Life - work - effect. Wuerzburg 1990.
  • Hungarian, Hermann. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 20: Susm – Two. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22700-4 .
  • Heidelore Riss: Ungar, Herrmann. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 510f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hungarian, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Boskovice , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1929
Place of death Prague