Hugo Klajn

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Hugo Klajn (born September 30, 1894 in Vukovar , Austria-Hungary ; died December 2, 1981 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav psychoanalyst and theater director.

Life

Hugo Klajn was born to the Jewish trader Samuel Klajn and Sofia Grun. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna , a. a. with Julius Wagner-Jauregg and Emil Kraepelin , and received his doctorate in 1919. Klajn was a soldier in the First World War . In Vienna he came into contact with representatives of psychoanalysis and did a training analysis with Paul Schilder . He worked in Belgrade as a neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst and translated Sigmund Freud's major works into Serbo-Croatian, including 1937 On the Psychopathology of Everyday Life .

Klajn fell in love with his patient , the ten years younger pianist Stana Đurić , who was married to a family member of the Belgrade newspaper dynasty Ribnikar and director of the newspaper Politika and who already had three children. The philologist Ivan Klajn (* 1937) is their son.

After the German conquest of Yugoslavia in 1941, he had to hide as a Jew, and the Ribnikar family helped him. During the war he worked as a doctor for the Yugoslav underground. After the war he gave partisans psychiatric treatment. His book about this was not allowed to appear for years because mentally ill partisans did not conform to the heroism of the communist party doctrine.

In communist Yugoslavia he largely gave up his psychiatric work, the reasons for this are unclear, but still edited Freud's works. He received a leading role in the theater of Yugoslavia. He directed at the National Theater in Belgrade and in the provincial theaters, he translated and staged Shakespeare , among others . He based his directorial work on the work of the Soviet director Stanislavski , which is why it was called "Sistem Klajn-Stanislavski". From 1949 he taught directing at the Belgrade Theater Academy. He wrote the forewords for the translations of writings by Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Walter Mehring into Serbo-Croatian.

Klajn produced a documentary about Anne Frank in 1959 .

In 2006 the Belgrade University Library commemorated him with an exhibition.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nervi sistem . 1933
  • Abnormalnosti normalnih. Tri predavanja iz primenjene psihopatologije . 1936
  • Osnovni problemi režije . Belgrade: Rad, 1951.
  • Život dvočasovni: pozorišne kritike . 1957
  • Osamnaesti brimer Luja Bonaparte . 1960
  • Šekspir i čoveštvo . Belgrade: Prosveta, 1964
  • Uvod u psihoanalizu . 1964
  • Pojave i problemi savremenog pozorišta . Novi Sad, 1969
  • Kir Janja . Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša, 1973
  • (Ed.): Odabrana dela Sigmunda Frojda . Novi Sad: Matica srpska, 1973
  • Psihopatologija svakodnevnog života . 1981
  • Radoslav Lazić (ed.): Režija u amaterskom teatru: priručnik za amatere reditelje . Novi Sad: Prometej, 1992
  • Ratna neuroza Jugoslavena . Belgrade, 1995

Movies

  • Dnevnik Ane Frank . 1959

literature

  • Klajn, Hugo. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 680 (entry 5173).
  • Klajn, Hugo. In: Elisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 548
  • The Mysterious Career Change of Hugo Klajn , at Historians of Medicine Working on Central and Eastern Europe (CEEHM), May 24, 2013
  • Ksenija Šukuljević-Marković: Pozorišno stvaralaštvo Huga Klajna . Belgrade: Muzej pozorišne umetnosti SR Srbije, 1977
  • Boris Kordić: Istorija Psihoanalize u Srbiji u Xx Veku , in: Engrami, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychology and Related Disciplines, 2011, p. 96f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holm Sundhaussen : Metakriege. War experience and management of the war in the former Yugoslavia. In: Joachim von Puttkamer , Gabriella Schubert (ed.): Cultural orientations and social order structures in Eastern Europe . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010 ISBN 978-3-447-06243-5 , p. 164
  2. ↑ Proof at DNB
personal data
SURNAME Klajn, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav psychoanalyst and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vukovar
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1981
Place of death Belgrade