Martin Feuchtwanger

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Memorial plaque on the office building at Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, Halle (Saale)

Martin Mosche Feuchtwanger (born December 18, 1886 in Munich ; died November 9, 1952 in Tel Aviv ) was a German writer , journalist, and publisher who was best known in the 1920s and early 1930s.

He was initially an editor, then editor-in-chief of the Saalezeitung and subsequently the founder and director of the five-tower publishing house in Halle .

In 1933 he fled to Prague and founded another publishing house there. In 1939 he fled to Palestine and ran the exile publisher Edition Olympia in Tel Aviv .

Martin Feuchtwanger was the younger brother of Lion and Ludwig Feuchtwanger .

Works (selection)

  • Future is a blind game. Memories , Munich 1989 (several editions)

Literature (selection)

  • Heike Specht, Die Feuchtwangers: Family, Tradition and Jewish Self-Image in the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie of the 19th and 20th Centuries , Wallstein Verlag, 2006
  • Robert Schmitt Scheubel, Martin Feuchtwanger Essais and Reviews , consassis-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-937416-62-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Jaeger: Martin Feuchtwanger and his exile publisher Edition Olympia in Tel Aviv . In: From the second-hand bookshop . NF 14; 2 (2016), pp. 75-88 .

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personal data
SURNAME Feuchtwanger, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feuchtwanger, Martin Mosche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1952
Place of death Tel Aviv