Leo Schidrowitz

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Leo Schidrowitz (born March 20, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died November 6, 1956 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist and publisher .

Life

Leo Schidrowitz grew up as the third child of a Jewish family in Vienna's Leopoldstadt in modest circumstances. He attended high school and began to publish his attempts at writing at the age of nineteen. The “Wiener Mittagszeitung” and the art and music magazine “Der Merker” printed articles from him during the First World War, and he founded the magazine “The Harvest”, which contained edifying literature for the soldiers at the front.

After the war, Schidrowitz was initially the publishing director at “Verlag Frisch & Co”, where he published erotic bibliophile books. The novel by Victor Hugo Der lachende Mann , which he had reworked, was supposed to open a classic series for the publisher, which, like the advertised series of artist monographs , was not continued after a first edition about Lotte Medelsky . In 1920 he was a co-founder of the “Gloriette Verlag”, which published some erotic writings and the novels by Hugo Bettauer . The cover designs for all Bettauer books came from Martha Schidrowitz-Wagner, with whom he had been married since 1922. The Gloriette publishing business was closed in 1924. In 1924 Schidrowitz founded a self-publisher , the "Leo Schidrowitz Verlag", from which the book Der vicious Herr Biedermeyer was only sold to subscribers .

In 1925 he became co-owner of the “Amonesta- und Kulturforschungs-Verlag”, in which Schidrowitz published a moral history of the cultural world and its development in individual representations . Eight of the planned ten volumes have appeared. a. Magnus Hirschfeld and Ferdinand von Reitzenstein win. Furthermore, a six-volume work Allmacht Weib and a five-volume The five senses appeared , also this work on sexual subjects, and the publisher also printed a three-volume picture lexicon of eroticism . Schidrowitz was also the literary director of the “Zinnen-Verlag”, an offshoot of the Kulturforschungs-Verlag.

The Vienna Institute for Sexual Research, headed by Schidrowitz and in which the doctor Oskar F. Scheuer (1876–1941) worked as an adviser, had its headquarters in the premises of the publishing house on Kohlmarkt . The institute also acted as the editor of various writings that were published by Amonesta. The publishing business was stopped in 1935, in 1936 and 1937 there were several court hearings in Austria and the publisher's print products were banned because of pornography .

Soccer

Schidrowitz was connected to football since his youth and has been on the board of Rapid Vienna since 1923 . He was the author of various sports magazines and sports literature . In 1936 he became chairman of the league's class committee to establish the Austrian national league . In 1937 he took over the editing of the ÖFB weekly newspaper Fußball-Sonntag and was a member of the preparatory committee for the participation of the Austrian national soccer team in the 1938 soccer World Cup in France. Immediately after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Schidrowitzes fled to Paris and emigrated from there to Brazil . There Schidrowitz worked in an émigré magazine and in 1940 was co-editor of a book on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the city of Porto Alegres . Both returned to Austria from Rio de Janeiro in 1949. On the initiative of the ÖFB President Josef Gerö , Schidrowitz became a public relations officer at the Austrian Football Association and wrote a history of Austrian football.

Fonts (selection)

  • Lotte Medelsky. A rating . Frisch & Co., Vienna 1921.
  • The shameless folk song: a collection of erotic folk songs. Gloriette, Vienna 1921, OCLC 6727088 ; also Graß, Berlin 1925, OCLC 246447139 .
  • The untalented Goethe . L. Schidrowitz, Vienna 1924.
  • The vicious Mr. Biedermeyer . 1925,
  • (Ed.): Moral history of the revolution . Publisher f. Cultural research, Vienna 1930.
  • Rapid eleven times champion . Rapid Sports Club, Vienna 1935.
  • History of football in Austria . Traunau, Vienna 1951.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The publisher August Amonesta died on July 27, 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
personal data
SURNAME Schidrowitz, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1956
Place of death Vienna