Paul Kisch

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Paul Kisch (1938)

Paul Kisch (born November 19, 1883 in Prague ; murdered October 12, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian journalist and literary critic in Prague and Vienna . He was the oldest brother of Egon Erwin Kisch .

Life

Paul Kisch came from an old Jewish family in Prague . His four younger brothers were Friedrich (1894–1968), Egon (1885–1948), Wolfgang (1887–1914) and Arnold (1889–1942). Paul Kisch attended the old town high school in Palais Goltz-Kinsky from 1893 to 1901 . Classmates were Hugo Bergmann , Rudolf Illový , Franz Kafka and Emil Utitz . Paul and Egon Kisch were members of the pennalen country team Normannia . Beginning in 1901, Paul studied at the German University in Prague German . He spent the winter semester of 1902/03 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Right at the beginning of his studies he joined the reading and speaking hall of German students in Prague, which was founded in 1848 . He heard lectures by Otokar Fischer , Victor Hadwiger , Wilhelm Kosch and Ferdinand Josef Schneider . In Prague's Schlaraffia , Kisch called himself “Ritter Schmisso der Bohemien” or “Junker Paul”. From 1903 he was also an enthusiastic member of the Prague fraternity, Saxonia . The hall was a "liberal German" (liberal), while Saxonia was a conservative, striking student union in the (equal) Burschenbunds-Convent . Paul Kisch was in contact with important Czechs , including Jaroslav Hašek .

Kisch moved to Vienna in 1907 and served as a one-year volunteer . With the doctor Oskar Scheuer he founded and edited the German University there , sheets for German national free-thinking color students in Austria . With a doctoral thesis under August Sauer , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In the summer of 1913 he took up the position of local reporter in the Bohemia (succeeding his brother Egon) . Probably under the impression of Oskar Scheuer, he reported to the Vienna Fidelitas "traffic active" in 1913 . He also wore the BC Bund's ribbon . In the First World War, Paul Kish 1915 was convened; but he was declared "unfit for weapons" and in December 1915 was transferred to the Landsturm . In February 1917 he traveled to Lublin to attend the exhumation of his brother Wolfgang. In November 1918 he moved to Vienna as editor of the Neue Freie Presse , where he stayed until June 1938. As Egon Kisch wrote in exile in 1942, Paul raved about the Anschluss of Austria and the nascent Greater Germany. Regardless of this, on September 13, 1943, he was transported from Prague to the Theresienstadt ghetto on transport Ez-St 66 (No. 262) . Taken from Theresienstadt on October 12, 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp on Transport Eq (No. 335) , he was killed in the gas chamber as soon as he arrived .

Kisch wrote the obituary for Sigmund Pick alias "Abraham". He reviewed German narrators from Czechoslovakia by Otto Pick . In the review of Hans Watzliks O Böhmen (1917) he wrote that the novel was about nothing more than “the defense of the most important German outposts against the East, the fate of millions of Germans who hit the mountains around the heartland of Germania as Gustav Freytag once called it, have lived there for centuries ”. He dealt with the Königinhofer manuscript and paid tribute to Emin Pascha and Karl Hans Strobl . Letters and cards from Franz Kafka and Egon Kisch to Paul Kisch have been published in recent decades.

Ex-libris by Paul Kisch

Publications

  • Hradschin. In: German work. 7/5 (1907/1908).
  • Tennis sonnet. In: Bohemia . 84/85 (March 26), supplement (1911).
  • Hebbel and the Czechs. The poem 'To his Majesty, King Wilhelm I of Prussia', its origin and history. (= Prague German Studies. 22). Bellmann, Prague 1913.
  • Hanka fecit! On the centenary of the Königinhöfer Handschrift II. In: Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia 90/257 (September 19, 1917).
  • The fight for the Königinhofer manuscript. A contribution to the centenary. (= Collection of charitable lectures. 472/474 = war booklet 25). Prague: Publishing house of the German Association for the Dissemination of Public Benefit Knowledge 1918.
  • Three novels by Ernst Weiß. In: Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia 91/227 (August 20, 1918), 3f.
  • The poet of the lost homeland. In: The musket . (November 4, 1920).
  • "Toast, we Prague people and the old tape". For the jubilee celebration of Karl Hans Strobl and his Vaclavbude. In: Deutsche Hochschulwarte. 7 (1926/1927), pp. 98-100.
  • The beloved Prague song. At high school in Prague. In: Deutsche Hochschulwarte. 7 (1927/1928), p. 14.
  • Ten years of German Austria. In: Bohemia. 101/270, November 13, 1928.
  • The fraternity member Emin Pascha . In: German University: Journal of the Burschenbunds-Convents, BC, Association of National Freedom Corporations, The Old Men Committee of BC. 18 (1928/1929), p. 56f.
  • with Arthur Werner : The Prague German student in a poem. Dr. A. Werner, Aussig 1929.
  • Czech premiere at the Carl Theater. In: New Free Press . No. 23167 (March 14, 1929), p. 14.
  • Paul Kisch at the Festkommers of the reading and speaking hall of German students in Prague on November 16, 1933. In: Deutsche Hochschulwarte. 13 (1933), pp. 174f.

Reviews

  • Hans Watzlik: O Bohemia. In: German newspaper Bohemia . 91/40 (February 10, 1918), 3f.
  • Otto Pick (ed.): German narrator from Czechoslovakia. In: German newspaper Bohemia. 96/31 (February 8, 1923), 3f.
  • Jaroslav Durych : The Carthusian Houses of Walditz. In: New Free Press. 25225 (December 2, 1934).
  • Hermann Grab : The city park. In: New Free Press. 25251 (December 30, 1934).
  • Herbert Cysarz (ed.): We carry a light. Calls and songs from Sudeten German students. In: New Free Press. 25451 (July 21, 1935).
  • Emil Vachek : The Chicken Walk. In: New Free Press. 25507 (September 15, 1935), 29.

Web links

Commons : Paul Kisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Gatscher-Riedl
  2. ^ Kurt Naumann: Directory of the members of the old gentlemen's association of BC Munich e. V. and all other former BCers as well as the old men of the Wiener SC . Saarbrücken, Christmas 1962.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Hebbel and the Czechs .
  4. ↑ Obituary for Abraham . In: Deutsche Hochschulwarte. II. Vol. (1922), p. 109; reprinted in: once and now . Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research. 32: 183-186 (1987).
  5. ^ German newspaper Bohemia. Volume 96, No. 31 (February 8, 1923), p. 3f.
  6. ↑ Letters to Brother Paul and Mother 1905–1936 (1978)
  7. ^ Franz Kafka's cards and letters to Paul Kisch (1988)
personal data
SURNAME Kisch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and literary critic in Prague
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp