Jakob Elias Poritzky

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Jakob Elias Poritzky with his wife and daughter, around 1907

Jakob Elias Poritzky , actually: Isaak Porycki (born January 13, 1876 in Łomża , Russian Empire , † February 1, 1935 in Berlin ) was a German writer and theater director of Russian origin.

Life

Isaak was the - probably youngest - son of the Jewish trader Abraham Jacob Poritzky and his wife Jenny, née Rosenbaum. At the age of a few months he came to Karlsruhe with his family , where he attended secondary school. Following this, at the request of his parents, he completed a commercial training and thus contributed to the family's livelihood from an early age. Since his greatest desire to become an actor was forbidden by his family, he kept tearing away from home. He came u. a. to Frankfurt or Paris , where he hired himself out as an unskilled worker at various theaters to finance his acting lessons.

At 18, Jacob Elias went, as he called himself in the mid-1890s, according to Berlin to attend the university to study philosophy. His first literary attempts also date from this time. On October 1, 1901, Poritzky married the writer Helene Orzolkowska , who was born in Lessen in West Prussia , and a daughter of the cantor Aaron Orzolkowski . Their only child was born on August 24, 1902, who would later become composer and singer Ruth Rebekka Poritzky .

Between 1911 and 1914 Poritzky worked with Rudolf Bernauer at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin . In 1915 he was brought to the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Karlsruhe as a director and director . He stayed there until the summer of 1916 and was appointed literary director of the Drei-Masken-Verlag in Berlin in early 1917 .

From 1926 to 1932 Poritzky worked as a speaker and presenter for radio stations that had only recently opened in Germany. He was involved in a total of 35 programs on art and literature for the broadcasters Funk-Hour Berlin , MIRAG Leipzig and DW and read out his own stories and poems. This made him an early representative of the communication of literary content on the radio .

Shortly after his 59th birthday, Jakob Elias Poritzky died after a long illness and was buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee . His sister Therese and her family emigrated to the USA and so survived the war as the only close relative. Wife Helene and daughter Ruth were deported by the Nazis in 1940 and died in a concentration camp .

Works (selection)

author

Fiction
  • Away from life. Sketches from the anatomy . Boll, Berlin 1896.
  • My hell Herrosé & Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1906.
  • Love stories . G. Müller, Munich a. a. 1912.
  • Ghost stories . G. Müller, Munich a. a. 1913.
  • Melancholy. Novel . Paetel, Berlin 1927.
  • Peter Broh's confession. A story . Etzold, Munich 1907.
  • Over night. A drama in 4 acts . Drei-Masken-Verlag, Berlin Munich 1925.
  • The invisible force . Drei-Masken-Verlag, Munich 1925.
  • From the ossuary of agony. Stories of horror and fear . Publishing house Lindenstruth. Giessen 2006
Non-fiction
  • Julien Offray de Lamettrie . His life and his works. Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1900, online .
  • Imago mundi: About love, luxury and other passions. Georg Müller, Munich 1918.
  • Demonic poets . Verlag Rösl, Munich 1921 (problems and portraits).
  • The erotic . Verlag Rösl, Munich 1921 (problems and portraits).
  • Franz Hemsterhuis . His philosophy and its influence on the German romantics . Paetel, Berlin 1926 (Philosophical Series; 81).
  • Spirit and destiny . Verlag, Rösl, Munich 1921 (problems and portraits).
  • Fantastics and thinkers . Verlag Rösl, Munich 1922 (problems and portraits).

editor

  • The victory of death. Strange and fantastic war novels of all times and peoples . Mittler, Munich 1915.
  • Ernst Moritz Arndt : fairy tales and memories of youth . Müller, Munich 1913 (2 vol.).
  • Giacomo Casanova : words of Casanova . Bruns Verlag, Minden 1909.
  • Johann Karl August Musäus : Folk Tales of the Germans . Propylaeen-Verlag, Berlin 1912 (2 volumes).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Address book and registry of registry Karlsruhe
  2. ↑ Spelling according to Heuer: Bibliographia Judaica: Directory of Jewish authors in the German language , 1981-1996. - Vol. 2 and according to the memorial book for the Karlsruhe Jews
  3. ↑ Cf. Theresia Wittenbrink: Writer in front of the microphone - author appearances on the radio during the Weimar Republic 1924-1932. In: Publications of the German Broadcasting Archive. Volume 36, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006
personal data
SURNAME Poritzky, Jakob Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Łomża
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1935
Place of death Berlin