Karl Lieblich

Karl Lieblich (born August 1, 1895 in Stuttgart ; † March 1, 1984 ibid) was a German lawyer , businessman and writer .

Activity in Germany

Karl Lieblich, son of a Galician Jew, attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and then studied law. After participating in the First World War, he opened his own law firm in Stuttgart in 1923. In addition to his legal work, he wrote theater reviews , novellas and plays . Inspired by the Paris trial in which Scholom Schwartzbard was accused of having shot Simon Petljura as the person primarily responsible for the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine after the First World War , Lieblich wrote Rausch und Finsternis 1927-28 . In 1931 and 1932 he published two sensational books; We young Jews. Three investigations into the Jewish question in which he responds to the reawakening of anti-Semitism by proposing a culturally sovereign “inter-territorial nation” of the Jews , and What is happening to the Jews? Public question to Adolf Hitler . Both works were publicly banned and burned in the Third Reich . The combative approach of the above works was accompanied by the establishment of the League for a New Judaism. In 1933, Lieblich was banned from writing and a year later banned from working .

Emigration and exile

In 1937 Lieblich learned the printing trade in Basel . In the same year he emigrated to New York and from there to Brazil on a tourist visa . He imported the machines he needed to run the printing business from Germany. His wife, Olga Lieblich, and all of the children - with the exception of one who went to Switzerland - followed in 1938. In São Paulo , where the family settled, Lieblich founded a printing company . A few years later he sold the machines and founded an import-export company with the proceeds. Nevertheless, he continued to write poems and short stories, even without any prospect of ever publishing them. According to Olga Lieblich, it is unlikely that any novel or poem was ever published in Brazil. The stories and novels, which were mostly written in the first person, relate in a chronicle-like style to personal experiences, such as The Mulatto Wedding , 30 Contos. A story from Brazil and a memorial to the Brazilian Antonio Coutinho, the non-beggar , or they tell love stories in a novel-like style, such as you came from Argentina. Brazilian novella .

Lieblich, who could possibly have had moderate success in Germany, suffered in exile , like all other writers, from the loss of the linguistic and literary environment and he was unable to distinguish himself as a lawyer or as a writer.

“It was very difficult for my husband. (...) He didn't know the Portuguese language very well either. " , said his wife Olga in an interview with Izabela Kestler . Since he did not have the most important prerequisites for successful integration and he also longed for Stuttgart, Lieblich finally returned to his former hometown with his wife in 1958 after several homesick ship trips between 1948 and 1957.

Works

• The reunion in Tübingen in 1918
• The plague in Stuttgart Tübingen in 1920
• The dream drivers. Two stories. Eugen Dietrichs, Jena 1923
• The world roared in Jena in 1924
• The proletarian bridal couple. A folk song in prose. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1926
• We young Jews. Three investigations into the Jewish question in 1931
• What is happening to the Jews? Public question to Adolf Hitler. Zonen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1932
• The secrets of Maimonides. Gabriel Fernandes, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-9800652-0-0 .
• Rausch und Finsternis Gardez !, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 978-3-89796-174-6 .

literature

• Irene Ferchl: Interrogation in the Hotel Silber. Karl Lieblich. In: Narrated City: Stuttgart's literary places. Silverburg, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8425-1382-2 , pp. 16-17.
• Izabela Maria Furtado Kestler : The exile literature and the exile of German-speaking writers and publicists in Brazil (= European university publications , series 1: German language and literature , volume 1344). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-631-45160-1 (dissertation University of Freiburg im Breisgau 1992, 267 pages).
• Christoph Manasse: In search of a new Jewish identity: the writer Karl Lieblich (1895 - 1984) and his vision of an inter-territorial nation , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22483-7 (dissertation University Basel 2013, 364 pages).

See also

• List of well-known German-speaking emigrants and exiles (1933–1945)
• Literature in National Socialism
• Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ #Ferchl 2015 .