Jacob Picard

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Handwritten dedication and signature by Jacob Picard, in: Shock. Poems , Heidelberg 1920

Jacob (Jakob) Picard (born January 11, 1883 in Wangen on Lake Constance ; died October 1, 1967 in Konstanz ; pseudonyms: JP Wangen and Jakob Badner ) was a writer and poet of German rural Jewry .

Life

As one of seven children of the Jewish couple Simon and Eugenie Picard, Jacob grew up in his birthplace Wangen am Untersee near Öhningen near Stein am Rhein and attended high school in Constance . He then studied German , history and art history, then law in Munich , Berlin and Heidelberg . He completed his studies with a dissertation .

From 1907 he published his first poems, including in Westermann's Illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte , Die Gegenwart , in the magazine Die Schaubühne founded by Siegfried Jacobsohn and in the left - liberal bi - monthly magazine for German culture Der März . There was Theodor Heuss editor; they met in 1908.

Before the First World War , Picard lived in Heidelberg in 1913/14 and reported in an essay on Ernst Blass about the lively literary scene that ruled the Neckarstadt at that time. In the Saturn publishing house Hermann master Heidelberg in 1913 his first book of poetry was published The shore; a poem also appeared in the 5th year of SATURN, edited by Meister with Herbert Grossberger .

During World War I, in which he lost two of his brothers, Wilhelm and Erwin, he served as a war volunteer and officer in a machine gun company. From 1919 to 1924 he worked as a lawyer in Konstanz, since his marriage to Frieda Gerson he lived in Cologne from 1924 to 1933 , then, with interruptions, until 1940 in Berlin. The daughter Renate came from the later divorced marriage.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was forced to give up his work as a lawyer and turned increasingly back the literary work. In 1935 he was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer and was subsequently only able to publish his works in Jewish publishers. Between 1936 and 1938 Picard lived again near his birthplace Wangen and stayed in an inn in the village of Horn near Gaienhofen . In addition to the autobiographical text Memories of His Own Life, he also completed his book of short stories The Drawn . This was published as the fourth quarterly volume in 1936 by the Jewish Book Association Berlin and received extremely positive reviews by Hermann Hesse and Stefan Zweig .

During his last stay in Wangen he received a booklet with poems by Gertrud Kolmar from his then publisher Erich Lichtenstein with a request for an assessment. Deeply impressed by this, Picard advised immediate printing, as he had the justified “feeling that something like this would not be possible for much longer; and in fact this was probably the last Jewish book that appeared before the final catastrophe. ”It was Kolmar's last volume of poetry, The Woman and the Animals, which could still be published in 1938. After moving to Berlin in autumn 1938, Picard got to know the poet personally, whose first complete edition of poems was published in 1955 with an afterword by Picard.

Picard emigrated with the last opportunity on October 4, 1940 from Berlin via the Soviet Union , Korea and Japan to the United States , where he accepted US citizenship and wrote a biography of Franz Sigel under difficult economic conditions .

Finally he returned to Germany from the USA in 1958. Shortly before his death, he received the Bodensee Literature Prize from the city of Überlingen in 1964 .

Works

  • The shore. Poems (Lyric Library 3). Meister, Heidelberg 1913.
  • Once. In: Saturn . No. 5, 1919/20, p. 370.
  • Vibration. Poems. Meister, Heidelberg 1920.
  • Lake Constance experience. Velhagen and Klasings monthly books.
  • The marked one. Jewish stories from a century (= annual series 1936. Vol. 4). Jewish Book Association, Berlin 1936.
    • The marked one. Translation and epilogue by Ludwig Lewisohn . Philadelphia 1956.
  • Childhood in the Village. Fragment of an Autobiography. In: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. Volume 4, 1959, pp. 273-293.
  • The clock strike. Poems. With an afterword by Hans Reetz. Hermit Press, Stierstadt 1960.
  • Ernst Blass , his environment in Heidelberg and “ The Argonauts ”. Biographical fragment. In: Imprimatur, a yearbook for book lovers. New series Volume III, 1961/62, pp. 194–199. Again in: Paul Raabe (Ed.): Expressionism. Records and memories of contemporaries. Walter, Olten / Freiburg 1965, pp. 137–145.
  • Trace under the water. 1963.
  • The old teaching. Stories and anecdotes. DVA, Stuttgart 1963. (revision of The Drawn. 1936)
  • Memory of one's own life. In: allende - magazine for literature . 9th vol., No. 24/25, 1989, pp. 5-38.
  • Works. Edited by Manfred Bosch. Two volumes. Faude Verlag, Konstanz 1991, ISBN 3-922305-24-5 .
  • Works. Edited by Manfred Bosch. Libelle Verlag, Lengwil 1996, ISBN 3-909081-48-7 .
  • And it was easier for him than ever before in life. The most beautiful stories from rural Judaism in southern Germany. Libelle Verlag, Bottighofen 1993, ISBN 3-909081-59-2 .
  • Memory of one's own life. In: Manfred Bosch (Ed.): Alemannisches Judentum. Traces of a lost culture. Eggingen 2001.
    • Une enfance au village. Fragments d'autobiographie, Jacob Picard, Léo Baeck Institute; Texts traduit de l'anglais et annoté par Ph. Pierret, Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 2008, (71 p.)

literature

  • Max Barth: The heart and the home. About the narrator Jacob Picard. In: allende - magazine for literature . 9th vol., No. 24/25, 1989, pp. 39-47.
  • Manfred Bosch : Bohème on Lake Constance. Literary life at the lake from 1900 to 1950. Lengwil 1997.
  • Manfred Bosch (Ed.): Afterword in Jacob Picard: Works. Two volumes. Faude, Constance 1991.
  • Manfred Bosch:  Picard, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 406 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jakob Picard 1883-1967. Poet of German rural Jewry. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the former Sulzburg synagogue , autumn 1992. Developed by Manfred Bosch and Jost Grosspietsch, ed. from the cultural office of the city of Freiburg. Konstanz 1992. (Distribution Faude-Verlag, Konstanz.)
  • Siegfried Lauterwasser: Portrait photo of Jacob Picard. In: Wort am See. Winner of the Lake Constance literature of the city of Überlingen. Vol. 2. Rosgarten-Verlag, Konstanz 1970, p. 44.
  • Dieter H. Stolz: laudation for Jacob Picard. In: Wort am See. Winner of the Lake Constance literature of the city of Überlingen. Vol. 2. Rosgarten-Verlag, Konstanz 1970, pp. 45-53.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 903
  • Picard, Jacob. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 40-45.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Picard to Wilhelm Sternfeld, quoted in: Jacob Picard: Werke. Edited by Manfred Bosch. Lengwil 1991. Volume 2, p. 303.
personal data
SURNAME Picard, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wangen, JP (pseudonym); Badner, Jakob (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheeks on Lake Constance
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1967
Place of death Constancy