Martin Pollack

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Martin Pollack (2019)
Martin Pollack (2011)

Martin Pollack (born May 23, 1944 in Bad Hall , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian journalist , writer and literary translator .

Career

Pollack is the illegitimate son of SS-Sturmbannführer Gerhard Bast and the stepson of the Upper Austrian painter and graphic artist Hans Pollack . In addition to high school , Pollack completed an apprenticeship as a construction and furniture maker and also passed the journeyman's examination. He then studied Slavic Studies and Eastern European History at the University of Vienna , the University of Warsaw and at various Yugoslav universities . In parallel to his studies, Pollack was already working as a translator and journalist.

In 1987 Pollack began working as an editor for the German news magazine Der Spiegel , including as a foreign correspondent in Vienna and Warsaw from 1987 to 1998. At the same time, he published essays and translations of Polish texts.

He has been working as a freelance author and translator since 1998. Pollack's books have a documentary claim, the aim of which is to document events exactly without imposing personal views on the reader. Most of his books document events in the recent past that have been forgotten, including crimes of the 20th century in Galicia .

In 2010 his current novel became Emperor of America. Escape from Galicia , which was funded by a cross-border commuter grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation , was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2011. The State Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the Polish government, Jan Dziedziczak , terminated his cooperation with Pollack in 2016 after he had expressed concern about the authoritarian domestic policy in Poland in an article in Standard in April 2016 . In a comment in the NZZ in March 2018, he regretted that the problem of “yesterday's weirdos” in German national fraternities was by no means taken as seriously as it would be necessary in view of the “silent seizure of power” he cited.

He currently lives in Vienna and in Bocksdorf in southern Burgenland .

Books

  • To Galicia. From Hasids, Hutsuls, Poland a. Ruthenians. An imaginary journey through the vanished world of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina . Edition Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85447-075-4 , p. 208, ( To Galizien. Is a travel guide for the now-defunct Galicia and its culture. The new edition appeared as: Galizien. A journey through the disappeared World of East Galicia and Bukovina. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-34447-0 .)
  • The course of life. Jewish family pictures from intermediate Europe . Christian Brandstätter Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85447-198-X .
  • Martin Pollack, Karl-Markus Gauß (Ed.): The rich land of poor people. Literary walks through Galicia. Jugend und Volk (J&V), Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-224-17636-9 , p. 262, (The new edition was published as Martin Pollack, Karl-Markus Gauß (ed.): The rich land of poor people. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85129-661-7 .)
  • Parricide charges. The Philipp Halsmann case . Zsolnay, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-552-05206-2 ( The trial of the case of Philippe Halsman is reported in the indictment of patricide ).
  • The dead man in the bunker . Report on my father . Zsolnay, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-552-05318-2 (The dead man in the bunker is a personal report by Pollack about his father, Dr. Gerhard Bast, SS-Sturmbannführer, head of the Linz Gestapo and war criminal).
  • Martin Pollack (ed.): Sarmatian landscapes. News from Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Germany. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-062303-7 (on behalf of the Stefan Fischer Foundation and the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI eV as well as in cooperation with the German Academy for Language and Poetry).
  • Martin Pollack (Ed.): From Minsk to Manhattan. Polish reports. Zsolnay, Vienna 2006 (translated by Martin Pollack, Joanna Manc, Renate Schmidgall ) ISBN 3-552-05371-9 , p. 268.
  • Why were the Stanislavs shot? Reports . Zsolnay, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-552-05432-5 , p. 229.
  • Martin Pollack et al. a .: The myth of Chernivtsi. A city reflected in its nationalities. In: Ariane Afsari (Ed.): Potsdam Library Eastern Europe - History. German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-936168-25-9 , p. 263.
  • Emperor of America. The great escape from Galicia . Zsolnay, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-552-05514-8 .
  • In your face. Pictures from our recent history. With an essay by Martin Pollack and photos by Chris Niedenthal . edition . fotoTAPETA, Warsaw / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940524-13-3 .
  • The wolf hunters. Three Polish duets . (Together with Christoph Ransmayr ). S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-062950-0 .
  • Contaminated Landscapes . Residenz Verlag , St. Pölten and Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-1621-0 (print), ISBN 978-3-7017-4457-2 (e-book), p. 120.
  • Topography of memory . Residenz Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7017-1648-7 (print), ISBN 978-3-7017-4528-9 (e-book), p. 172.
  • Epilogue to the new edition by W. St. Reymont : The indignation. Westhafen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-942836-12-8 .
  • The woman without a grave: Report about my aunt , Zsolnay, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05951-1

Martin Pollack also translated all of the works of the Polish author Ryszard Kapuściński and the first part of Andrzej Bobkowski's diaries into German.

Awards

literature

  • Carlo Moos : Habsburg post mortem. Reflections on the survival of the Habsburg monarchy . Vienna: Böhlau, 2016. pp. 337–340.

Web links

Commons : Martin Pollack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henryk M. Broder : The dashing Gerd. In: Der Spiegel . 39/2004, p. 174f.
  2. ↑ George Renöckl: Targeted stumble in crisis areas. nzz.ch, July 4, 2014, accessed on July 4, 2014
  3. ^ Cross-border commuter program of the Robert Bosch Foundation
  4. ↑ Stephan Stach: On the index of the Polish government , in: FAZ , July 23, 2016, p. 9
  5. ↑ Martin Pollack: Austria's fraternity members were considered crazy, and nobody took them seriously - a fatal mistake , NZZ, March 12, 2018
  6. ↑ Juri Andruchowytsch: Because of the truth. Der Standard , November 27, 2010, Supplement Album , p. A 10.
  7. ↑ orf.at - state prizes for artists and scientists . Retrieved August 13, 2015
  8. ↑ Martin Pollack receives Johann Heinrich Merck Prize . In: The press . July 11, 2018, p. 20 .
  9. ↑ Merck Prize to Martin Pollack , Börsenblatt dated July 10, 2018, accessed July 12, 2018
  10. ^ Theodor Kramer Prize to Erdheim and Pollack. In: ORF.at . September 9, 2019, accessed September 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pollack, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hall in Upper Austria