Paul Elbogen

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Paul Elbogen (born November 11, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 10, 1987 in Revelstoke , British Columbia ) was an Austrian writer and editor and worked for a time as a consultant for the American film company Columbia . He came, as his brother Franz , a Jewish bourgeois Viennese family and was before the First World War for Jeunesse dorée the Austrian capital.

Life

At times Elbogen attended the well-known Catholic Schottengymnasium . During the First World War he worked as a volunteer in a hospital. He then began a lively publication activity, where he distinguished himself as a critic and art connoisseur. In this capacity he appears in an anecdote in Friedrich Torberg's book Die Tante Jolesch . During his eventful life, Elbogen came with many famous film stars, including Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton and Marilyn Monroe , with numerous writers such as Peter Altenberg , Heimito von Doderer , Karl Kraus , Thomas Mann and Robert Musil and with artists such as Alban Berg and Arnold Schönberg in contact.

After the annexation of Austria , Elbogen and his wife fled first to Italy, then to France. There they were temporarily interned after the beginning of the Second World War and finally got to the USA on a danger visa , where they lived first in Hollywood , then from 1962 until their death in San Francisco . On one of her many trips, she was killed in a car accident at an old age. A substantial part of the Elbogen estate is in the University of California at Davis.

Works

Elbogen had his greatest successes as the publisher of letters from famous Germans, especially with the Dearest Mother collection published in 1929 . Other collections were Dear Father (1932) and Humor since Homer (published anonymously by Rowohlt in 1964 ).

Under the pseudonym Paulus Schotte, Elbogen published several novels, including Head Over To Another I (1934), and the portrait collection Life as Adventure (1938). Further collections of portrait essays are titled Abandoned Women (1932), Kometen des Geldes (1933) about famous business captains and Genius im Werden about the youth of great people. As a novelist, Elbogen was ambitious but unsuccessful. The artist's novel Dram (1949) and the novel The Dark Star (1960) about a slave who was abducted to America and who became a great actor should be mentioned in particular .

Elbogen's autobiography From Hundreds to Thousands was published in 2002 under the title Der Flug auf dem Fleckerlteppich.

literature

  • Günter Rinke: From old Austria to California. The writer and editor Paul Elbogen. In: Exil 1/2002, pp. 62-71.
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography. Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962.
  • 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. 256
  • Elbogen, Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 273-282.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Canadian Accident Kills Elderly Couple From San Francisco . In: San Francisco Chronicle , June 12, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Elbogen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1987
Place of death Revelstoke , British Columbia