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Karl Federn (born February 2, 1868 in Vienna , † March 22, 1943 in London ) was an Austrian lawyer , translator and writer .

Life

Karl Federn was the son of an important Viennese doctor, Salomon Federn, who introduced bedside blood pressure measurement , and the women's rights activist Ernestine Spitzer. His brothers were the doctor and psychoanalyst Paul Federn and the economist and business journalist Walther Federn , his sister the writer and Spain fighter Marietta Federn , his nephew the psychoanalyst Ernst Federn .

He grew up in Vienna, received private tuition from 1881 to 1883 and graduated from the Academic Gymnasium in 1885 . He studied law from 1885 to 1890 and obtained his doctorate in law . jur. After that he first opened a law practice, which he gave up after a short time. He then worked as a freelance author in Vienna and from 1908 in Berlin . The dancer Isadora Duncan , whom he met in 1903, tried to convey Nietzsche's philosophy as the basis of her art; he also translated her lecture The Dance of the Future into German. From 1915 to 1918 he worked for the liberal Berlin newspaper Vossische Zeitung as a special reporter in Lugano , after which he worked in the Foreign Office as a consultant for Italian affairs until 1921 . Feder was first chairman of the German PEN center together with Ludwig Fulda .

As a literary translator, he translated from Italian ( Dante Alighieri ) and English ( Ralph Waldo Emerson , Herman Melville and Walt Whitman ). He emigrated to Denmark in 1933 and went to London in 1938, where he made a name for himself as a critic of Marxism. His book Hauptmann Latour was banned in Germany by the National Socialists.

Works

  • 1899: Dante and his time. Seemann, Leipzig / Vienna / Berlin (2nd, edited edition 1916).
  • 1909: James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking stories in their original form. Translated and edited by KF Berlin, P. Cassirer, 1909–1910. 5 volumes. Initials by Max Slevogt, bindings by Karl Walser.
  • 1911: The Chevalier of Gramont. Hamilton's Memoirs and History. (2 volumes) Georg Müller, Munich.
  • 1912: a hundred novels. Volume 1. Georg Müller, Munich.
  • 1913: A hundred short stories. Volume 2. Georg Müller, Munich.
  • 1922: Mazarin. Georg Müller, Munich.
  • 1925: Rosa Maria. Roman, Paetel, Berlin.
  • 1925: A judicial crime in Italy. The Murri-Bonmartini trial. The forge, Berlin.
  • 1927: Richelieu. Karl König, Vienna.
  • 1929: Captain Latour. According to an officer's notes. Sponholtz, Hanover.

literature

  • Elsa Egli-Griesser: Karl Federn. Especially as a novelist. Rheinfelden, Krauseneck 1953 (Diss. Univ. Zurich).
  • Willy Dähnhardt and Birgit S. Nielsen (eds.): Exile in Denmark. German-speaking scientists, artists and writers in exile in Denmark after 1933, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1993, pp. 503–506.
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 5: T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 437.
  • Springs, Karl. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 525-542.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945. Volume 2.1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 282.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Federn  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Wyklicky:  springs, Josef (Salomon). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 44 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Richard Frank Krummel, Evelyn S. Krummel: Nietzsche and the German spirit. Spread and impact of Nietzsche's work in the German-speaking area from the year of death to the end of the First World War, 1998, p. 119 f.