Ludwig Winder

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Ludwig Winder, around 1920

Ludwig Winder (born February 7, 1889 in Schaffa , Austria-Hungary , † June 16, 1946 in Baldock , Great Britain ) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak German-speaking writer , journalist and literary critic .

Life

Winder was born into a Jewish family in Schaffa (Šafov) in South Moravia. In 1906 he published at his own expense his first volume of poetry, and in the summer of 1907 he joined after his matriculation examination in the editor of the Vienna newspaper The time one. He belonged to the so-called “ Prague Circle ” of writers and was close friends with the journalist and philosopher Felix Weltsch and the writers Oskar Baum , Max Brod , Johannes Urzidil and Ilse Aichinger .

He worked for various newspapers as an editor, literary critic, local journalist, theater speaker, etc. Between 1915 and 1938 he wrote over 2,500 features articles for the Prague German-language daily Bohemia . At the same time, he published numerous books for publishers in Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig and Zurich, but also a play, The Woman Without Qualities, which Robert Musil used as a template for his opus magnum The Man Without Qualities . In 1934 the author received the State Prize of the Czechoslovak Republic for German-language literature. In the Austrian corporate state, however, the novel was The Heir apparent. A Franz Ferdinand novel was banned shortly after its publication in 1937 on the basis of the Tradition Protection Act. In his novels ( Die Nachholten Freuden von 1927, Der Kammerdiener von 1943, published in full only in 1988) he repeatedly dealt with domination, power and oppression.

Particularly noteworthy is his novel Die Judenische Orgel (1922), a new edition of which was published by the Vienna Residenz Verlag in 2001 . The story of the Jew Albert, who grew up in the Jewish ghetto of a small Moravian town, picks up on classic romantic themes such as: the fight against the father and self-realization through detachment from the family.

After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , Ludwig Winder fled with his wife and older daughter Marianne via Poland and Scandinavia to England on June 29, 1939. The younger daughter stayed behind voluntarily. Towards the end of the war she died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

In England he also worked for newspapers and continued to write novels. One work each was published under the two pseudonyms Herbert Moldau and G. A. List, under the latter One Man's Answer by the London publisher George G. Harrap (1944). In 1941 he was diagnosed with a heart condition, to which he succumbed on June 16, 1946 in England (Baldock). His ashes were buried in London.

The novel The Duty was published posthumously in 1949 .

Works (new editions)

literature

  • Jindra Broukalová: Ludwig Winder as a poet of the human soul and reality. A contribution to the consideration of the novel "The Heir to the Throne. A Franz Ferdinand Roman" in the context of the narrative work of its author . Univ. Karlova, Praha 2008, ISBN 978-80-7290-357-3 .
  • Arno Gassmann : Dear father, dear God? The father-son conflict among the authors of the inner Prague circle (Max Brod - Franz Kafka - Oskar Baum - Ludwig Winder). Dissertation Karlsruhe 2001, Igel, Oldenburg 2002 (Studies on Prague German Literature, Literature and Media Studies 83), ISBN 3-89621-146-3 .
  • Gerhard Härle : How much beauty does a man need? Ludwig Winders 'Hugo' - or the duel of outsiders. In: Forum Homosexualität und Literatur 30 (1997), pp. 99–117.
  • Kurt Krolop : Ludwig Winder (1889-1946). His life and his early narrative work. A contribution to the history of German literature in Prague. Hall 1967.
  • Margarita Pazi : An attempt at Jewish German-Czech symbiosis: Ludwig Winder. In: The German Quarterly 63/2 (1990), pp. 211-221.
  • Christiane Spirek: A voice from Bohemia - the Prague author Ludwig Winder. In: Exil 17 (1997), pp. 45-55.
  • Judith von Sternburg: God's bad dreams. Ludwig Winder's novels. With a preliminary remark by Dieter Sudhoff . Igel, Paderborn 1994.
  • Patricia-Charlotta Steinfeld [ed.]: Ludwig Winder (1889–1946) and Prague's German literature. First complete bibliography on the work of Ludwig Winder . Röll, Dettelbach 2009.
  • Philipp Theisohn: Art. WINDER, LUDWIG . In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2nd ed., Vol. 21, p. 80.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal law for the protection of the reputation of Austria . Federal Law Gazette 1935 PDF
  2. ↑ Franz Haas: Many enemies and little honor. Psychogram of the heir to the throne and his epoch - Ludwig Winder's Franz Ferdinand novel from 1937 is extremely entertaining . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 7, 2014, p. 53.
  3. ↑ Nigel Allan: Marianne Winder 1918-2001, an appreciation , at Wellcome Library , London, PMC 1044426 (free full text)
  4. ↑ See Jörg Thunecke: 'The missing chapter - Notes on the complete version of Ludwig Winder's novel "Die Duty"', in: Exil 26 (2006), 2, pp. 50–66; the text was reprinted in: 'The missing chapter - Notes on the complete version of Ludwig Winder's novel "Die Duty"', in: Galerie. Revue Culturelle et Pedagogique [Luxemburg] 24 (2006), 2, pp. 241-292, here pp. 270-292. Unfortunately this chapter is missing in the new edition of the Wuppertaler Arco Verlag.
personal data
SURNAME Winder, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moldau, Herbert; List, GA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak writer, journalist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffa , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1946
Place of death Baldock , UK