NO Scarpi

Fritz Bondy (passport photo, 1942)

NO Scarpi , actually Friedrich (Fritz) Bondy (born April 18, 1888 in Prague , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † May 24, 1980 in Zurich ) was an Austrian-Swiss translator , columnist, anecdotal collector and director .

Life

Fritz Bondy grew up as the son of Jewish parents from the German-speaking minority in Prague. The father died early; the stepfather, Heinrich Teweles (1856–1927), was a writer, dramaturge at the New German Theater in Prague , theater critic and from 1900 editor-in-chief of the Prager Tagblatt . He attended high school and was a commercial clerk between 1908 and 1912. From 1912 Fritz Bondy also directed the New German Theater. He also worked as an assistant to Max Reinhardt .

In 1918 he moved to Switzerland, initially to Davos , where his wife Margit and son Francois Bondy lived in the lung sanatorium; his wife died there in 1918.

Under the pseudonym NO Scarpi (after Scarpino, a field name from Viganello near Lugano, where he lived at the time) he wrote his first plays and feature articles. In the period between the two world wars he lived in Switzerland, Paris, Yugoslavia and Hungary; In 1931 he received Swiss citizenship . From 1941 until his death he lived in Zurich. He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery .

Fritz Bondy is the father of François Bondy and the grandfather of Luc Bondy .

plant

More than 200 translations from English (Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, W. Somerset Maugham, George Orwell, Daphne du Maurier, George Mikes) and from French
Several collections of anecdotes
Employees at the Nebelspalter
Opera reviews on Radio Beromünster
The Parisian . Musical comedy (together with Fridolin Tschudi ). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1957 Zurich

literature

Literature by and about NO Scarpi in the catalog of the German National Library
You , No. 688, October 1998. "Fritz, François and Luc Bondy"
Bondy, Friedrich. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 289-297.
Rosmarie Zeller: NO Scarpi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 21, 2011 .
NO Scarpi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki : "As a life's work, Scarpi leaves behind a huge work of lots of little things"

personal data
SURNAME	Scarpi, NO
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bondy, Friedrich (real name); Bondy, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Swiss translator, columnist and director
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1980
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Marcel Reich-Ranicki : "As a life's work, Scarpi leaves behind a huge work of lots of little things"