Hugo Zuckermann
Hugo Zuckermann (born May 15, 1881 in Eger , Austria-Hungary ; died December 23, 1914 in Eger) was a Bohemian - Austrian lawyer , German-speaking writer and Zionist .
life and work
During his studies in Vienna he became a member of the Association of Zionist University Students Theodor Herzl in Vienna and later of the Jewish Academic Association Libanonia .
Zuckermann became known through the Austrian Rider Song (1913), which transfigured military success and soldierly devotion to fate, and the few poems published from the estate. The publisher of these lyrical works in 1915 was the Austrian journalist and writer Otto Abeles . In addition, he received attention with his commitment to Zionism .
Together with Oskar Rosenfeld he founded the Jüdische Bühne , the first Jewish theater in Vienna , in 1908 , which existed until 1938.
Zuckermann worked as a lawyer in Meran , so that negotiations about his estate took place in Bolzano in 1915 .
Zuckermann was a soldier in the First World War , he died of his injuries in his hometown and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Eger.
His wife Ida, born in Vienna, came from a Christian family and shared the Jewish hopes and work of her husband. She could not get over his death and six months later, after she had decorated his grave site with flowers, put an end to her life on the spot by shooting a revolver.
literature
- Daniel Hoffmann : Hugo Zuckermann. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01682-X .
- Hugo Zuckermann , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 135-138
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Zuckermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Text of the equestrian song
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Seewann : Circle and Zion Star. Volume 1. Graz 1990, p. 135.
- ↑ Cf. Ulrich Sieg : Jewish Intellectuals in the First World War. War experiences, ideological debates and new cultural designs. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001 [at the same time: Habilitation thesis Marburg 1999]. ISBN 978-3-0500-4524-5 . P. 80
- ↑ For example, the Untermaiser weekly paper of 27 March 1915 p 5 ( Digitalisat the Teßmann library ).
- ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten , May 17, 1915, p. 8 and Zuckermann, Hugo. Poems. 1919. Reprint. London: Forgotten Books, 2013. Print, p. 12
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zuckermann, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian-Austrian lawyer, writer and Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eger |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1914 |
| Place of death | Eger |