Max Roden
Max Roden (actually Max Rosenzweig ; born July 21, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 22, 1968 in New York City ) was an Austrian writer and journalist .
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Roden, who had spent part of his childhood and youth in China ( Shanghai ), worked from 1906 in his native Vienna as an editor and art consultant for the Oesterreichische Volkszeitung . As a freelance writer, he published almost a dozen volumes of poetry by 1937, including prose and dramas. Immediately after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany , he married the visual artist Sascha Kronburg in March 1938 . The couple emigrated to the USA and settled in New York City in 1940 , where Roden worked as a freelance journalist for the Wiener Zeitung , among others . In the last decade of his life, three more volumes of poetry were published by Austrian publishers. Roden died in New York in 1968.
Literary work (selection)
- Spring garden. Poems. Vienna 1906.
- Redemptive song. Poems. Amalthea, Vienna, Leipzig and Zurich 1922.
- From the source. Johannespresse, Vienna 1935.
- Death and moon and glass. New poems. Bergland, Vienna 1959.
- Imagina. Poems. Bergland, Vienna 1964.
Web links
- Entry on Max Roden in the personal lexicon of the Austrian National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clearing, max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenzweig, Max (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1968 |
| Place of death | New York City |