Jesse Thoor
Jesse Thoor (born January 23, 1905 as Peter Karl Höfler in Berlin ; † August 15, 1952 in Lienz / East Tyrol ) was a German / Austrian writer .
Life
Jesse Thoor was the son of a carpenter who had come to Berlin from Upper Austria in 1904 . The family soon returned home. Thoor attended elementary school and then began an apprenticeship , first as a dental technician , then as a file cutter . He worked in Linz and Steyr, but set out on a wandering across Europe at an early age. His life as a vagabond took him to Italy, Spain, Hungary and the Netherlands, he worked at times as a stoker in coastal shipping . After his return to Berlin, he was in leftist circles and became a member of the KPD and the Red Front Fighters League .
After the National Socialists came to power , Thoor went to Austria in 1933. He lived in Vienna and worked as a carpenter , sculptor and silversmith . When Austria was " Anschluss " in 1938, he fled to Brno in Czechoslovakia . Here he took his pseudonym "Jesse Thoor" after the prophet Isaiah and the Germanic god of thunder Donar. In December 1938, he received the suggestion of Franz Werfel , through the mediation of the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom for himself and his wife Friederike Blumenfeld an entry permit for the UK . However, he was interned at times as an " enemy alien " in Devon and on the Isle of Man . After his release, Thoor worked from home for a London goldsmith .
The period of exile , which Thoor distanced himself from communism , led to the increasing isolation of the author, of whom only one volume of poetry was printed during his lifetime. His works took on more and more of a mystical character and conjured up an idealized, traditional rural world. Thoor returned to Germany and Austria only for two short visits; he died of a heart attack in Lienz in East Tyrol in 1952 . The poet was buried in the new cemetery in Lienz.
Thoors work, which mostly from very severe form poetry (often in sonnet form is) is, in its early stage of Vagantenlyrik attributable to the late work, however, a very peculiar variety of religious poetry .
Works
- Six poems , in: Maß und Wert , 1939 (edited by Thomas Mann and Ferdinand Lion )
- Sonette , Nuremberg: Nest-Verlag 1948
- Poem : In a House (ca.1949/50)
- The sonnets and songs , Heidelberg: L. Schneider 1956 (edited by Alfred Marnau )
- Thirteen sonnets , Stierstadt im Taunus: Eremiten-Presse 1958 (edited by Wilhelm Sternfeld )
- The work. Sonnette - Lieder - Erzählungen , Frankfurt am Main: EVA 1965 (edited by Michael Hamburger )
- Poems , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1975 (new edition 2005, edited by Peter Hamm )
- Das Werk , Göttingen: Wallstein 2013 (published on the basis of the edition provided by Michael Hamburger and with an essay by Michael Lentz ), ISBN 978-3-8353-0527-4 .
literature
- Johann Trojer: Jesse Thoor . In: Osttiroler Heimatblätter, vol. 45, no. 5 (1977, without pagination); online: [1]
- Gerdamaria Thom : Callers without a flag. The poet Jesse Thoor . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-215-06005-1 .
- Michael Lentz : His poetry turned into prayer . In: FAZ of January 26, 2008.
- Jesse Thoor , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 207-211
Web links
- Literature by and about Jesse Thoor in the catalog of the German National Library
- "Morning song" - poem by Jesse Thoor in ZEIT ONLINE
- The soul froze - review by Michael Braun in the NZZ
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jesse Thoor: The work . Published on the basis of the edition obtained by Michael Hamburger and with an essay by Michael Lentz. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thoor, Jesse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Höfler, Peter Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th August 1952 |
| Place of death | Lienz , East Tyrol |