Moses Rosary

Moses Rosenkranz (born June 20, 1904 in Berhometh am Pruth , Austria-Hungary ; died May 17, 2003 in Kappel , Germany ) was a German-speaking poet .

Life

Moses Rosenkranz was born Edmund Rosenkranz as the sixth of nine children of non-Orthodox Jewish parents in poor circumstances. He grew up multilingual (Yiddish, Ukrainian, German, Polish, Romanian). Until 1930 he lived mainly in Bukovina, then in Bucharest . From 1941 to 1944 he was interned in labor camps during the persecution of the Jews under the rule of the Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu . In 1947 he was deported to the Soviet Union and disappeared into the Gulag for ten years . In 1961, again politically persecuted, he had to flee Romania and came to Germany in 1961 . He lived in the Black Forest until his death.

Works (selection)

• The boards. Literaria Publishing House, Cernăuți 1940 (poems).
• In the downfall. A book of the century. Wort-und-Welt-Verlag, Thaur
  • Volume 1. 1986, ISBN 3-88356-043-X . 2014, ISBN 978-3-89086-913-1 .
  • Volume 2. 1988, ISBN 3-85373-111-2 . 2014, ISBN 978-3-89086-819-6 .
• Bucovina. Poems 1920–1997 (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 6). Zsgest. by the author, assisted by Doris Rosenkranz and George Guțu. With an interview by Stefan Sienerth and an essay by Hans Bergel . With six gouaches by KO Götz . Rimbaud, Aachen 1998, ISBN 978-3-89086-828-8 .
• Fragment of an autobiography. Rimbaud, Aachen
  • Part 1: Childhood (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 9). Edited by George Guțu. Among employees by Doris Rosenkranz. With an essay by Matthias Huff. 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-758-8 .
    • Hidden in the word ( memento from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), review by Edward Kanterian in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 2, 2001.
    • Dark magic forest of language , review by Thomas Rietzschel in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 28, 2002.
  • Part 1: Childhood , audio book (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 79). 2015, ISBN 978-3-89086-372-6 (MP3-CD), ISBN 978-3-89086-369-6 (6 audio CDs) and UPC 190394307943 (download).
  • Part 2: Youth (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 26). Edited by Doris Rosenkranz. With an essay by Matthias Huff. 2014, ISBN 978-3-89086-692-5 .
  • Part 2: Youth , audio book (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 81). 2016, ISBN 978-3-89086-370-2 (MP3-CD), ISBN 978-3-89086-368-9 (4 audio CDs) and UPC 190394307950 (download).
• Visions. Poems (= texts from Bukowina. Vol. 14). Edited and with an afterword by Doris Rosenkranz. Rimbaud, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89086-728-1 .

Letters

• Letters to Alfred Margul-Sperber 1930–1963 (= Bukovinian literary landscape, vol. 77). With autobiographical and literary critical documents. Published by George Guțu. Rimbaud, Aachen 2015, ISBN 978-3-89086-377-1 .

literature

• Elisabeth Axmann : Five poets from Bukowina: ( Alfred Margul-Sperber , Rose Ausländer , Moses Rosenkranz, Alfred Kittner , Paul Celan ). Rimbaud, Aachen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89086-561-4 .
• Wolf Biermann : The Poet's Feet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2003, p. 150–152 ( online obituary).
• Helmut Braun: Rose Ausländers relationship to Alfred Kittner, David Goldfeld and Moses Rosenkranz based on letters from her estate. In: Journal of Germanists in Romania (excerpts, portrayal of the poet in the context of Chernivtsi)
• Hans Jörgen Gerlach : The last great of the Bukowinian poetry. Moses Rosenkranz called after. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. 20th vol., No. 2, September 2003, pp. 16-18.
• Martin A. Hainz : Berhometh near Chernivtsi. To Moses Rosenkranz "Childhood". In: kakanien revisited. Platform for interdisciplinary research in Central, Eastern and Central Europe. May 15, 2004, pp. 1-2.
• Matthias Kußmann : "To escape death in the snow, I hid in the word." Portrait of the German-Bukovinian poet Moses Rosenkranz. In: Commons . No. 74., 2005, pp. 77-84.
• Judith Schifferle: Survival in between: on the poetic self-images in the work of Moses Rosenkranz (1904-2003) , Cologne; Weimar; Vienna 2013 (also Cologne, Univ., Diss., 2011)
• Dieter Schlesak : “In the deepest hell it begins to sing.” Between two dictatorships: the poet Moses Rosenkranz. In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics . No. 1, 1995.
• Stefan Sienerth : The Transylvanian-German writer Paul Schuster in the sights of the Romanian secret service Securitate . In: reflections. Issue 1, 4th (58th) year, 2009.
• Stefan Sienerth:  Rosary, Moses. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 71 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Claus Stephani : "Green Mother Bukowina". German-Jewish writers from Bukovina. Documentation in manuscripts, books and pictures. House of the German East, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-927977-27-3 .
• William Totok : Memoriile lui Moses Rosenkranz ( Eng . The Memoirs of Moses Rosenkranz ). In: Observator Cultural. No. 70, June 26, 2001.
• Reinhard Kiefer: Rosenkranz, Moses. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 425-427.

Web links

• Website on Moses Rosenkranz by Walter Hörner
• Left: Moses Rosenkranz on tour literature
• Literature by and about Moses Rosenkranz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Moses Rosenkranz at perlentaucher.de