Jack Hamesh

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Jack Hamesh (* around 1920 as Jakob Fünfer ) was a Jew from Vienna who had a relationship with Ingeborg Bachmann .

Jack Hamesh escaped to England just in time in 1938 on a transport of Jewish children, but his parents and other relatives did not escape the deportation and were murdered in the Holocaust .

In 1945 Hamesh returned to Austria as a member of the British troops, where he asked the young Ingeborg Bachmann about her political past - including with the BDM . He became her first great love because of his well-read and his knowledge of literature, which she reported later in the second part of her war diary . Hamesh had also fallen in love with Bachmann.

He was initially Marxist- oriented, but turned into a Zionist and went to Palestine in the spring of 1946 . From there he wrote Bachmann letters that were published together with the war diary. The last letter from Hamesh is dated July 16, 1947. Although a search message was placed in a German-language Israeli magazine a long time ago, Hamesh neither contacted nor could he be located. A search with the assistance of Douglas E. Goldman from the Jewish Genealogy Center also yielded no results.

literature

  • Hans Höller (ed.), Ingeborg Bachmann. War diary. With letters from Jack Hamesh to Ingeborg Bachmann , Berlin, suhrkamp 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://diepresse.com/home/spectrum/literatur/560465/Ich-bin-ganz-rot-geworden
  2. ↑ https://www.welt.de/welt_print/kultur/literatur/article7220460/Der-Soldat-und-das-Maedchen.html
  3. ↑ a b Diary. In: oe1.orf.at. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/buechermarkt/1186739/
  5. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1271376023457/Ingeborg-Bachmann-Weiterlesen-auch-wenn-die-Bomben-fallen
  6. ↑ http://www.faz.net/-gr4-169gu
  7. ↑ a b Whatever Happened to Jack Hamesh? The Arty Semite dated June 17, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Hamesh, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fünfer, Jakob (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Jewish emigrant
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century