Jób Paál

Jób Paál

Jób Paál (born in 1888 as Markus István Possel in Tata , Hungary ; died 1962 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian journalist who lived in Budapest and in major newspapers in Austria , Hungary, Germany , the Czechoslovakia and the United States published. He worked for the Délmagyarország , a daily newspaper in Csongrád County . His best-known texts include a series of interviews on Mayerling's "Tragedy" , which was reprinted internationally, and an interview with Arthur Schnitzler , which took place in the summer of 1931 at Semmering . Schnitzler wrote in his diary on July 28, 1931: “Nm. Mr. Job Paal, Hungarian journalist, whom I refuse to interview and who interviews me. His son. ”At times, Jób Paál worked as an advertising agent, that is, he approached companies so that they would place advertisements in newspapers. He was invited by hotels and accordingly wrote positive reports in the Hungarian press.

The interview with Art (h) ur Schnitzler in 1931

Paál stayed regularly in Baden near Vienna . He did not have a permanent home, but lived where there was currently no season, in winter in Opatija or Venice , in summer in the High Tatras and in the Austrian Alps. With the annexation of Austria to Germany, he increasingly lost his topics and assignments in the German-speaking area and increasingly sold his reports to newspapers in the Hungarian provinces as well as in the former Hungarian areas such as Transylvania and Czechoslovakia. He combined his journalistic activities and his experience as a salesman for advertisements to create an almost moneyless system of circulation: as a fee for his articles, he received advertising spaces from the newspapers that he could resell. In turn, he exchanged the advertising millimeters in hotels, restaurants and boutiques for accommodation, food and clothing. After the death of his wife, he regularly lived in this way at the Budapest Hotel Corvin.

Jób Paál was his stage name, which he adopted with his first publications around 1906. Instead of the German-Polish Possel, he had looked for a Hungarian name. Since Pál seemed too common to him, he decided on the variant Paál - a name that actually belonged to a Transylvanian noble family. The first name Jób is the Hungarian variant of Job . In 1946 he had his stage name registered as a real name.

In November / December 1911 he married Sabu Possel (1888–1935 Budapest), with whom he had a son, the doctor and psychoanalyst János Paál . His grandson is the science journalist Gábor Paál .

Works

• Conversation with Artur Schnitzler. Why the poet does not believe in interviews and why there is no good portrait of him. In: Neues Wiener Journal , August 2, 1931, p. 5. ( online )
• The secret of Beethoven's love letters . New acquisitions by the Pistyan spa director Emmerich Winter. In: Neues Wiener Journal, May 2, 1931, p. 4. ( online )
• Hogyan repiilt Fráter Cyprianus a Koronahegyről a Halastóig. In: Délmagyarország, October 31, 1931. ( online )

literature

* János Paál: Hunted by goblins: Forty Hungarian years 1916–1956. Edited by Gábor Paál. Self-published, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-4341-1 ( online )

supporting documents

1. ↑ ANNO, Badener Zeitung, 1931-11-04, page 4. Retrieved on January 21, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Diary 1879-1931. Published by the commission for literary forms of use of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, chairman: Werner Welzig . Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1981–2000.
3. ↑ America Magyar Világ, Oct. 26, 1975
4. ^ Paál, Gábor .: Hunted by goblins: Forty Hungarian Years 1916–1956 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4341-3 .