Jakob Haringer

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Jakob Haringer (born March 16, 1898 in Dresden as Johann Franz Albert ; † April 3, 1948 in Zurich ) was a German writer .

Life

Jakob Haringer was the son of Johann Baptist Haringer (1860-1941), book traveler, waiter, innkeeper, and the shopkeeper Franziska Albert (1874-1946).

He attended elementary school in Munich and Salzburg , then secondary school in Traunstein , and later that in Ansbach . At the age of 16 he left the Ansbach secondary school without a leaving certificate. He broke off a commercial apprenticeship that began shortly afterwards in Salzburg a few months later in February 1915 and went on a wandering tour. The first publication followed in 1916.

In 1917 he was drafted into the German military and took part in the First World War in Flanders . In 1918 he was dismissed with a small war disability pension because of heart problems.

Haringer moved to Munich, sympathized with the revolution and was imprisoned for a short time when the Munich Soviet Republic was suppressed in 1919. From 1920 further publications while he continued his wandering life in Germany and neighboring countries and made his way as a day laborer , at best as a pub pianist. In 1926 he was wanted by the police for carpet smuggling; later complaints followed for forgery of documents , perjury , insulting officials , trespassing and blasphemy and multiple forced admissions to psychiatric institutions . In 1929 Haringer took part in the International Vagabond Congress in Stuttgart-Degerloch.

Haringer was supported by Hermann Hesse , Alfred Döblin and Erich Mühsam . Through the recommendation of Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler-Werfel , he got in touch with the Zsolnay publishing house .

From 1931 to 1933 he lived in Ebenau near Salzburg with the actress Hertha Grigat . This relationship resulted in two illegitimate children, Johannes Grigat (1932–1992) and Ingeborg Grigat (today's Hoffmann, lives in Hamburg). In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers . In July 1936, the National Socialist rulers revoked his German citizenship . In March 1938, Haringer fled Austria to Prague and from there to Switzerland .

In 1939 he lived temporarily in Paris , then illegally again in Switzerland, where he was held in various refugee and internment camps during the Second World War .

In 1939 Haringer's works were put on the “List of harmful and undesirable literature” of the Reich Chamber of Literature . Admitted to the Dietisberg labor camp (Baselland) in October 1940, he fled to Zurich in January 1941 , where he was caught in February and imprisoned in the internment camp of the Bellechasse prison near Murten. In August he managed to escape again. January to June 1942 stay at the Schlössli mental hospital in Oetwil am See near Zurich, then in the “Les Aroles” internment home in Leysin, in 1943 in the Brissago labor camp (Ticino), then “private internees” in Burgdorf and Bern .

A Bern aid organization made it possible for Haringer to settle in Bern from 1943 onwards. In 1946 he moved to Köniz near Bern. Haringer died of a heart attack while visiting friends in Zurich at the age of 50 .

reception

Jakob Haringer, whose work mainly consists of poetry , was an idiosyncratic author who was only marginally influenced by Expressionism . His works mainly have their own feelings on the subject and fluctuate incessantly between deep feelings, great melancholy and wild attacks against God and the world. With his way of life he consciously placed himself in the tradition of traveling singers like François Villon , whose songs he translated into German.

Haringer's estate is now in the Swiss Literature Archives in Bern and in the Salzburg Literature Archives .

Works

  • Tobias , Amsterdam 1916
  • Christmas in the poor house , Amsterdam 1918
  • Grove of Forgetting , Dresden 1919
  • Evening mine , Munich 1920
  • The Chamber , Regensburg 1921
  • Jakob Haringer's Book of Mary , Amsterdam 1925
  • The robber's tale , Frankfurt a. M. 1925
  • Die Dichtungen , Potsdam 1925 - Reprint: Kraus, Series Library of Expressionism . Nendeln 1973
  • Child in gray hair , Frankfurt a. M. 1926
  • Homesickness , Vienna 1928
  • Leichenhaus der Literatur or About Goethe ( Die Einsiedelei. Ein Stundenblatt . Number V-VII), Berlin, Der Strom Verlag 1928. New edition Berlin, 1982 (2nd edition 1983), edited and introduced by Hansjörg Viesel. Another new edition of Siegen 1996 and 1997 udT Leichenhaus der Literatur (series Forgotten Authors of Modernism , Vol. 69), publisher with an afterword by Christoph Krahl, ISSN  0177-9869
  • "Die Einsiedelei. Ein Stundenblatt. Number VIII: 'Chinese Strofen' to Number XV: 'Ein Stundenblatt', verses after Regnier, Amsterdam, Christoph Brundel Verlag (= self-published), (1930)
  • Farewell , Berlin 1930
  • God's Snoring , Amsterdam 1931
  • German latrine inscriptions, Berlin 1931
  • The traveler or the tear , Ebenau b. Salzburg 1932
  • "My life. Friends of poetry, hectographed single-sheet printing from typescript. (Breslau, self-published 1932). 4 °, 2 p., First edition.- WG. 27.- Hectographed letter to the friends and patrons with autobiography and drastic description of the miserable living conditions ("My only shoes are torn, my only pants are torn, I don't have a coat.") .- This flyer was enclosed with the dedication copies of "The Traveler or The Tear", but was also sent separately
  • Souvenir , Amsterdam 1934
  • Mixed writings , Salzburg [a. a.] 1935
  • Notes , Brundel Verlag (= self-published), Paris 1935
  • Souvenir, Amsterdam 1938
  • The window , Zurich 1946
  • The organ player , Fürstenfeldbruck / Bavaria 1955
  • The rose grave , Fürstenfeldbruck / Bavaria 1960
  • Songs of a rag , Zurich [a. a.] 1962
  • The Shepherd in the Moon , Graz [u. a.] 1965
  • Nine poems , Köniz 1970
  • The Snoring of God and Other Poems , Munich [u. a.] 1979
  • Sung into the twilight , Berlin [a. a.] 1982
  • But the burnt mill of the heart is consoled by a verse , Salzburg [u. a.] 1988
  • About the love of books , Bayreuth 1990

editor

  • The Hermitage , Amsterdam 2.1928 - 31.1929
  • Epicurus : Fragments , Zurich 1947

literature

  • Paul Heinzelmann : Jakob Haringer in memoriam , Fürstenfeldbruck 1955
  • Werner Amstad: Jakob Haringer - Life and Work , Freiburg / Switzerland 1966
  • Peter Härtling:  Haringer, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 673 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Vivien C. Fisher: The "homesickness" motif in the work of Jakob Haringer . Imprint: Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1979. Description: Microfiche. Date of Publication: November 15, 1979
  • Siglinde Bolbecher, Konstantin Kaiser: Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature , Vienna 2000
  • Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . Biographical-bibliographical manual, Volume XIV, columns 237-240. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023160-1
  • Jakob Haringer: You were born for no star, no luck! - Life, Prose & Poetry, introduced and selected by Dieter Braeg. Die Buchmacherei, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-057859-5

Web links

Commons : Jakob Haringer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Amstad: Jakob Haringer - Life and Work . Freiburg / Switzerland 1966.
  2. ↑ Herold des Unterwegsseins Wiener Zeitung , March 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Haringer, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albert, Johann Franz (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1948
Place of death Zurich