Mark Siegelberg

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Mark Siegelberg , also Markus, (born June 11, 1895 in Kiev , Russian Empire ; died December 4, 1986 in Katzelsdorf , Wiener Neustadt) was a journalist, writer, theater critic and actor.

Life

Lutsk is also given as the birthplace of Boris Siegelberg's son . The family soon emigrated to Vienna , where Markus graduated from high school. He studied law and economics at the Universities of Bern and Vienna and obtained the Dr. jur. and Dr. rer. pole.

From 1922 he worked as a journalist for the newspapers The Morning , The Hour and The Day and was editor of The Hour from 1934–1938 . In 1924 he married Erna Juran.

Shortly after Austria's annexation in 1938, he was arrested, on April 2 as a protective custody Jew in the Dachau concentration camp (prisoner number: 13877; on Gestapo list: Siglberg Dr. Max ) and on September 22, transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp . After his release in 1939, he emigrated to Shanghai , where he worked on the exiled magazines The Shanghai Herald and the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle .

With Hans Schubert he wrote the plays The Masks Fall and Stranger Earth . After the premiere, the German ambassador intervened with the Japanese administration.

Due to his work with the British information service, he was evacuated by the British to Australia in December 1941. Since he was unworthy of an academic degree at a German university as a Jew, his academic degrees were revoked in July 1942. Only on May 15, 1955, was he re- awarded his doctorate .

In 1954 he founded the immigrant magazine Neue Welt (today Neue Heimat und Welt ) in Melbourne , for whose publication he was awarded the Golden Decoration of Honor in 1964 for services to the Republic of Austria . After he retired here in 1968, he returned to Austria, but found no connection with the successes of the pre-war period.

Works

  • Mark Siegelberg: Protective Custody Jew No. 13877 . Shanghai: American Press / Sygma, undated [around 1940].
  • Mark Siegelberg, Hans Schubert: “The masks are falling” - “Foreign earth”. Two dramas from emigration to Shanghai 1939–1947 . Edited by Michael Philipp and Wilfried Seywald. Hamburg: Hamburg Office for German Exile Literature, 1996.
  • Mark Siegelberg: The Second Face / The Face of Pearl Harbor . German and English Parallel Text. Edited by Tomas Sommadossi. Munich: Iudicium, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86205-257-8

literature

  • Who's who in Austria (1946), page 543
  • Who's Who in Austria (1967) Volume 6, Page 638
  • Birgit Lang: A trip into the blue: German-language theater and cabaret in Australian exile and post-exile (1933-1988).
  • Siegelberg, Mark , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 310
  • Siegelberg, Mark , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 1079f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia Volume 9, p. 434
  2. ^ Astrid Freyeisen: Shanghai and the politics of the Third Reich ; P. 419
personal data
SURNAME Siegelberg, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siegelberg, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, writer, theater critic and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev or Lutsk
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1986
Place of death Katzelsdorf