Josef Kalmer
Josef Kalmer , actually Josef Kalmus , also Joseph Kalmer (born August 17, 1898 in Nehrybka ; † July 9, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and writer.
Life
Josef Kalmer was born in Nehrybka, Galicia in 1898 . He attended school in Chernivtsi and in 1915 moved to the “KK Sophien-Gymnasium” in Vienna. When the First World War broke out , he volunteered for military service.
Kalmer began his literary activity in the interwar period . Between 1919 and 1928 he wrote poems, essays and translations (such as "Aufschwung", "Neue Erde", "Menorah", "Renaissance", "Die Wage" and "Das Zelt"). From the 1920s he was in charge of the Phalanx series. Library for the Internationale des Geistes in the publishing house of the Wiener Graphische Werkstätte and was the editor responsible for the last two editions of “Ver” as well as from 1921 to 1925 for Lajos Kassák's Hungarian avant-garde magazine “ Ma ” (during her years of exile in Vienna). He also worked as a literary agent.
After the German troops marched into Austria , he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the improvised prison in the Brigittenauer Gymnasium in Karajangasse, Vienna. As a result, Kalmer was able to flee to Czechoslovakia in August 1938 and to the United Kingdom in 1939 , where he worked in the press agency of the Ministry of Information until 1951. He wrote articles for various exile magazines such as "Zeitung" and "Zeitspiegel".
Josef Kalmer died on July 9, 1959 in Vienna.
Works
- Kalmer, Josef: Flight through the landscape . Vienna: Zahn u. Diamond 1927
- European poetry of the present 1900-1925 in adaptations . Ed. And transl. by Josef Kalmer, Vienna: Zahn u. Diamond 1927
- Huyn , Ludwig Graf / Kalmer, Josef: Abyssinia. Africa's unrest stove , Salzburg: Bergland Verlag 1935 (translated into several languages)
literature
- Tanja Gausterer: The literary mediator Joseph Kalmer . Attempt at approximation, Vienna, Dipl.arb. 2004
- Raoul David Findeisen: "I am a Sinologist and an Expert ..." - the Translator Joseph Kalmer as a Propagator of New Literature. In: SOS 10/2, pp. 389-412.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Kalmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Josef Kalmer in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Vienna 2000, p. 360 ISBN 3-216-30548-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalmer, Josef |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalmus, Josef (real name); Kalmer, Joseph (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nehrybka , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vienna |