Manfred Sturmann

Manfred Sturmann (born April 6, 1903 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; died January 9, 1989 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli writer.

Life

Manfred Sturmann's grandfather was an Orthodox preacher for the Jewish community in Osterode (East Prussia) , his father lived as a goldsmith in Königsberg. Manfred Sturmann attended the old town high school in Königsberg. He joined the Zionist youth organization Blau-Weiß . Sturmann studied economics, German and art history at the Universities of Königsberg, Breslau and Munich. To secure his livelihood, he began a commercial apprenticeship at a publishing house in Munich in 1923.

Sturmann wrote poetry, literary portraits, stories and reviews, he in in Gdansk appearing Monatsheften East Germans published and other literary magazines. In 1923 he translated ancient Hebrew poetry into German. In 1924 he married Lina Schindel. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1929. The volume of poetry Die Erben received the 1929 Poetry Prize of the City of Munich.

Sturmann learned Ivrit and emigrated to Palestine via Trieste on November 2, 1938 . His attempt to start a second career as a writer there proved impossible. He found employment from 1940 to 1947 at the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem , in 1948 he was drafted as a soldier in the Palestine War, after which he worked in the social welfare department of Irgun Olej Merkas Europa for immigrants from Central Europe. In 1945 he became the administrator of Else Lasker-Schüler's estate .

His literary works in Israel, including those in Hebrew, were unsuccessful: he remained an Israeli poet with a German tongue who was printed in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

Old Hebrew poetry . Translation and retranslation. Foreword by Arnold Zweig . Munich: Allgemeine Verlagsanstalt, 1923
Suicide in major . Narrative. Berlin: JM Spaeth, 1928
The heirs: poems . Berlin: Horen, 1929
The juggler and the lovers . Berlin: Horen, 1929
Wonder of the earth: poems . Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1934
Origin and ethos: Jewish poems . Berlin: Reiss, 1935
Palestinian Diary: Recording a Journey . Berlin: Brandus, 1937
Poems . Jerusalem: Friend, 1941
The creature . Stories. Drawings by Gunter Böhmer . St. Gallen: Tschudy, 1952
The hourglass: poems . Stories. St. Gallen: Tschudy, 1954
Farewell to Europe: Stories from Israel . Stuttgart: Lettner, 1963
Milestones - On the way of the cartel of Jewish connections KJV in the Zionist movement . Essay. Tel Aviv, 1972
Return to Reality: Novella . Berlin: European Ideas Mytze, 1983
Life joints: poems . Berlin: Henssel, 1984

literature

Kerstin Schoor: Sturmann, Manfred , in: Andreas B. Kilcher (Hrsg.): Metzler-Lexikon der German-Jewish literature: Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present . 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012 ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 489-491

Web links

Literature by and about Manfred Sturmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Manfred Sturmann in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ The name in Latin letters from 1932 to 1939 was Hitachduth Olej Germania ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah , German 'Vereinigung der Olim Deutschlands' , HOG; as in the title of Hitachduth Olej Germania's bulletin ), between 1940 and 1942 Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה וְאוֹסְטְרִיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah we-Ōsṭrijah , German 'Association of Olim Germany and Austria' , acronym: HOGoA; see. Bulletin of Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ), then from 1943 to 2006 Irgun Olej Merkas Europa ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן עוֹלֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn ʿŌlej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of the Olim Central Europe' ; as in their organ: MB - weekly newspaper of Irgun Olej Merkas Europe ), since then the association has been called the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן יוֹצְאֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn Jōtz'ej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of those from Central Europe' ; see. Title of its organ Yakinton / MB: Bulletin of the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ).

personal data
SURNAME	Sturmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1989
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] The name in Latin letters from 1932 to 1939 was Hitachduth Olej Germania ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah , German 'Vereinigung der Olim Deutschlands' , HOG; as in the title of Hitachduth Olej Germania's bulletin ), between 1940 and 1942 Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ( Hebrew הִתְאַחְדוּת עוֹלֵי גֶּרְמַנְיָה וְאוֹסְטְרִיָה Hit'achdūt ʿŌlej Germanjah we-Ōsṭrijah , German 'Association of Olim Germany and Austria' , acronym: HOGoA; see. Bulletin of Hitachdut Olej Germania we Austria ), then from 1943 to 2006 Irgun Olej Merkas Europa ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן עוֹלֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn ʿŌlej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of the Olim Central Europe' ; as in their organ: MB - weekly newspaper of Irgun Olej Merkas Europe ), since then the association has been called the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ( Hebrew אִרְגּוּן יוֹצְאֵי מֶרְכַּז אֵירוֹפָּה Irgūn Jōtz'ej Merkaz Ejrōpah , German 'Organization of those from Central Europe' ; see. Title of its organ Yakinton / MB: Bulletin of the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin ).