Oskar Jellinek

Oskar Jellinek (born January 22, 1886 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died October 12, 1949 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian writer who stood out primarily with his short stories.

Life

Oskar Jellinek was born into a Jewish merchant family in Brno. He studied law in Vienna and was an officer in the First World War. Until 1919 he worked as a judge; then he gave up this job. From 1924 he lived in Vienna as a freelance writer.

Jellinek fled to Czechoslovakia after the annexation of Austria in 1938 and to Paris after the breakup of the CSR in 1939. When the Second World War broke out, he was interned in France. In 1940 he succeeded in emigrating to the USA.

Works

• 1907 The Burgtheater of a twenty year old
• 1925 The peasant judge , novella
• 1926 The mother of nine , novella
• 1928 The son , story
• 1930 The whole village was in an uproar , short stories
• 1933 The Seer from Daroschitz , novella
• 1938 The spirit and life tragedy of Goethe's grandchildren
• 1947 Raacher silver celebration , poems
• 1950 Novellas collected

literature

• Ingrid Runggaldier: "The village of March 13th." - Utopia of a better world? Memories of OJ on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death. In: Zwischenwelt. Literature, resistance, exile. Published by Theodor Kramer Society Vienna, Volume 26, No. 3/4, December 2009 ISSN  1606-4321 p. 37f. (with photo of OJ and a short biography).
• Adalbert Schmidt:  Jellinek, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 396 ( digitized version ).
• Jellinek, Oskar. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 13: Jaco-Kerr. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-22693-4 , pp. 74-81.
• Jellinek Oskar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 103.
• Karel Krejčí: Oskar Jellinek: Life and Work (January 22, 1886 - November 12, 1949) . Editing Dušan Jeřábek, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Brně , Brno 1967, DNB 457293411 , (= Opera Universitatis Purkynianae Brunensis , Volume 121, also a dissertation at the University of Brno [1967]).
• Oskar Jellinek , in: Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers. Fifty Austrian life stories . Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , pp. 151–154
• Jellinek, Oskar , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 568

Web links

• Literature by and about Oskar Jellinek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oskar Jellinek's estate in the DLA Marbach