Max Hayek

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Max Hayek (born December 24, 1882 in Birnbaum ; † May 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German writer , journalist , editor and translator . He became a victim of the Nazi regime.

Life

Max Hayek was born in Birnbaum near Lundenburg in 1882 to Leopold and Ernestine Hayek. He studied in Vienna and later worked as a correspondent for English and French newspapers. From 1918 to 1923 he was married to the painter and graphic artist Sascha Kronburg . During the Second World War he was imprisoned in the Dossin barracks in Belgium and, according to a deportation list, was deported on May 19, 1944 with Transport XXV from Malines to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Fonts

  • Struggle and Promise , 1916
  • The writer Rafael Schermann , 1921
  • Christina and her diamond. A parable , 1923
  • The secret of writing. A study by the graphologist Rafael Schermann , 1923
  • A person who loves you. Reflections - Parables - Poems , 1930
  • Let's travel to Utopia. Reflections, Parables, Poems [1930], ed. by Martin A. Völker , Berlin: Anthea Verlag, 2019.

Translations

  • Walt Whitman : I Sing the Life , 1919
  • Prentice Mulford : The Possibility of the Impossible , 1919
  • Walt Whitman: Singing by Myself , 1920
  • William E. Barton: The Parables of the Wise Safed , 1922
  • Prentice Mulford: The Infinite Spirit of Good, 1922
  • Charles Erskine Scott Wood : The Poet in the Desert , 1927

Editions

  • The transformed earth. A Book of Promise , 1927

Web links

Wikisource: Max Hayek  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Hayek at heilstromquelle.de
  2. ^ Lutz Hagestedt: German Literature Lexicon - the 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . approx. 35 volumes, De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1999 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hayek, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH pear tree
DATE OF DEATH May 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp