Leo Hirsch (writer)

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Jizchak Arjei Leo Hirsch (born January 18, 1903 in Posen ; died January 6, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Leo Hirsch was the son of the grocer Zwi Hirsch and Bertha Selka. He grew up in the small town of Ostrowo , where German, Polish and Yiddish were spoken. The city became Polish in 1918, when the family lost their shop in the pogroms and fled to Berlin. Hirsch had to break off the studies he had started in Munich and contribute to the family support. He worked for the Berlin Mosse publishing house as a poorly paid journalist for the Berliner Tageblatt .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he worked in the features section of the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt , the last Jewish communication organ that could appear in Berlin from 1938 to 1943 during the Nazi era . Hirsch was also active in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden . He died - weakened by heavy forced labor - in the Jewish hospital in Berlin .

His first novel Vorbestraften is freely based on the Ifa film Die Vorbestraften by Erich Kraft , which Rudolf Meinert directed. "[...] the author describes the gloomy fate of a worker released from prison, who is viewed with suspicion by employers and who is repelled by his comrades as an outsider of society and driven anew on the path of injustice - at heart not a criminal, but just a guiltless man hounded by fate ”. "Hirsch's literary figures fail because of the social conditions of a community whose narrow bourgeois barriers no longer allow the individual to develop." His second book, published by the same publisher, Die Dackellieder , contains some famous poems, including Romance from Wedding . The last poem ends:

Just don't
look like that, if you already lost in the dirt ...
death is our bang effect -
dog! You never could laugh?

Both books were banned by the National Socialists.

Hirsch was also a film critic, and he contributed the lyrics to the two films Das Lied vom Leben 1930/1931 and Niemandsland (1931).

Works

Film reviews in Berliner Tageblatt , January 12, 1930
  • The Elements. O. Ullrich Verlag, Heilbronn 1927.
  • Elisa Radziwill , the childhood sweetheart of Kaiser Wilhelm I. A historical-psychological view of life based on new sources. Hädecke Stuttgart 1929.
  • Criminal record. Novel. Merlin-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1929. New edition: Westhafen Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-942836-04-3 .
  • The dachshund songs. Novel. Merlin-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1930.
  • (together with Egon Jacobssohn): Jewish mothers. Vortrupp-Verlag, Berlin [1936]. (including about Glückel von Hameln , Gudula Rothschild , Frumet Mendelssohn, Betty Heine , Jeanette Herzl).
  • The house of lights in the forest. A story for the Jewish youth. Illustrations by Ludwig Schwerin . Kedem, Berlin 1936.
  • Jecheskel Kotik: My grandparents' house. Translation from Yiddish: Leo Hirsch. Schocken, Berlin 1936. ( orig.Majne zikrônôt , Warsaw 1913; Berlin 1922.)
  • Conversation in the fog: Leibniz visits Spinoza . Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1935. Digitized
  • Practical Judaism. An introduction to Jewish reality for everyone. Vortrupp Verlag, Berlin 1935. New edition under the title: Jüdische Glaubenswelt. Edited by Hans-Joachim Schoeps . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1962.

literature

  • Hirsch, Leo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 11: Hein – Hirs. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-22691-8 , pp. 381-386.
  • German Literature Lexicon, founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Volume VII. Third edition. Francke, Munich / Bern 1979, p. 1236.
  • Kerstin Schoor: From the literary center to the literary ghetto: German-Jewish literary culture in Berlin between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0656-1 , pp. 384–403
  • Kerstin Schoor: "But if I thought that life, the world, humanity is progress ..." The journalist and writer Leo Hirsch. In: Jattie Enklaa (ed.): In the shadow of literary history. RodopiAmsterdam [et al.], (2005), pp. 211-250.
  • Thomas Hatry: "Offside". Robert R. Schmidt and the Merlin publishing house. Heidelberg 2015.
  • Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, p. 226f.
  • Kerstin Schoor: Hirsch, Leo. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 226–228.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Hirsch In: Jewish Museum Berlin jmberlin.de
  2. ^ Digitized editions of the Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt (Berlin, 1938–1943)
  3. ↑ The criminal record In: filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Advertising text from the publisher.
  5. ↑ Kerstin Schoor-
  6. ↑ Republished in: Um Uns die Stadt. 1931, ed. von Seitz and Zucker.
  7. ↑ Burned and Banished - Leo Hirsch In: verbrannte-und-verbanned.de
  8. ^ Leo Hirsch In: filmportal.de
  9. ↑ Summary in: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Leo Hirsch. In: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog. Wiesbaden 2005, p. 44f.
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deer, Jizchak Arjei Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1943
Place of death Berlin