Oswald Levett
Oswald Franz Levett , actually David Loewitt (born June 15, 1884 Baden , † October 1942 in Maly Trostinez ) was an Austrian writer , lawyer and translator .
Life
The son of David Loewitt and his wife Ernestine geb. Ornstein received his doctorate in law on March 24, 1908 at the University of Vienna . After continuing his training at the University of World Trade in Vienna and at the Collège libre des sciences sociales and the École libre des sciences politiques , Levett took a book review course.
This was followed by a traineeship with Chamber President Dr. Harpner, Dr. Eckstein and Dr. Kappelmacher in Vienna. Levett was then a sworn court interpreter for French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian and Spanish. After his participation and injury in the First World War , he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order . After the end of the war he made several trips through Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
In 1925, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Quatre-Vingt-Treize took place with Leo Perutz . It appears at Ullstein under the name The Year of the Guillotine . On January 1st, 1933 the illegitimate son Oswald Fuchs was born . December 10, 1932 was the publication date of the novel Lost in Times at FIBA Verlag, Vienna-Leipzig. On March 16, 1933 his name was changed from Loewitt to Levett and on June 8, 1933 he joined the Old Catholic Church.
On June 11, 1933, he separated from Martha Taussig, b. Löbl. In 1935 the novel Papilio Mariposa was published by the Europäische Verlag, Vienna-Leipzig. On April 28, 1935, their son René Edgar Johannes Levett was born. On December 31, 1938, the legal profession came to an end due to race regulations. In March 1939 Levett emigrated to Brussels , where he worked in the relief organization for Jews from Germany.
In July 1940, he divorced his wife Martha. After his arrest in Brussels on October 23, 1940 and his transfer to Aachen , he was transported to Vienna by collective transport.
On October 5, 1942, he and about 550 people were deported to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp. After arriving at the camp on October 9 or 10, Levett was not among the two survivors of this deportation.
Works
- Papilio Mariposa, Vienna 1935
- Lost in Times, Vienna 1933 (new edition 1984 by Verlag Das Neue Berlin ( SF Utopia series ), 1986 by Suhrkamp )
- The year of the guillotine, 1925 (as translator)
literature
- Wolfgang Pollanz : Lost in the times , in: The Science Fiction Year 1988 (Vol. 3), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00983-5 , pp. 636–638.
- Regina Binder: Oswald Levett. A search for traces , in: Quarber Merkur 34 (1997), Vol. 85, pp. 102-111. Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 1997. ISBN 978-3-924443-91-7 (also printed in: Österreich in Geschichte und Literatur , 41 [1997], issue 4b – 5, pp. 346–353)
- Jennifer Lang: Narrative structures and motifs of the fantastic and science fiction literature in Oswald Levett's time travel novel "Lost in the Times" , in Quarber Merkur . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, vol. 113, Lindenstruth Verlag, Gießen 2012, pp. 9–92. ISBN 978-3-934273-92-4
Radio
- Thomas Gaevert : The time traveler from Ansbach or Who was Oswald Levett? Radio feature, 25 min., Production: Südwestrundfunk, first broadcast: September 24, 2012 ( manuscript and audio file online )
Web links
- Literature by and about Oswald Levett in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Oswald Levett in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Oswald Levett in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Oswald Levett at Open Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levett, Oswald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levett, Oswald Franz (full name); Loewitt, Oswald Franz (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, lawyer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to bathe |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1942 |
| Place of death | Maly Trostinez |